James Hamilton papers
name: label: Creator
content: Hamilton, James, 1819-1878
topic: label: Occupation
content: Landscape painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Marine painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Miss Katherine Reed, granddaughter of James Hamilton to the NCFA/NPG Library May 1975 and subsequently transfered to AAA April 1977.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hamilton, James, 1819-1878
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Marine and landscape painter. Born in Ireland. Came to Philadelphia in 1834. Studied with John Sartain.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 20 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1870-1967
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hamijame
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm roll 2813 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A biographical sketch of Hamilton by Charles S. Keyser; a letter from Grace Greenwood, 1871 with two photographs of her and a letter 1870, from Greenwood's husband, L.K. Lippincott, with a photograph of him; a letter from John Sartain to Thomas Reed, 1880 and one from Sartain to Malvina Reed, 1885; an illustrated manuscript of the "subject of clouds"; four snapshots of Hamilton's paintings; letters to his granddaughter, Mrs. Walter Sonneberg regarding Hamilton's painting; exhibition announcements, 1948; auction catalog of Philadelphia artists, ca. 1880, annotated with prices; and printed material on Hamilton.