Subject Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918
setName: label: See more items in
content: Charles Henry Hart papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Boxes 1-4, 8; 4.0 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1774-1922
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hartchah, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Subject files contain letters from art historians, art collectors, dealers, and gallery owners, notes and writings, clippings, reproductions of art work, and photographs pertaining to notable subjects of portraits, artists, organizations including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and miscellaneous subjects including miniature paintings and H. W. Elson's book History of the United States. Several files contain letters from descendants of notable people including John Quincy Adams, Asher B. Durand, Benjamin Latrobe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The file for Gilbert Stuart contains a letter from Kenyon Cox protesting Hart's opinions, and the file for Robert Morris contains a 1775 paper Continental Currency note. The file for John Paul Jones concerns the controversy over the identification of Jones' exhumed body and includes a photograph of his corpse in 1805.