Miner Kilbourne Kellogg papers
name: label: Creator
content: Kellogg, Miner K. (Miner Kilbourne), 1814-1889
label: Names
content: Cleveland Academy of Art
label: Names
content: Lenox Library
label: Names
content: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: National Academy of Design (U.S.)
label: Names
content: Benjamin, Park, 1809-1864
label: Names
content: Cesnola, Luigi Palma di, 1832-1904
label: Names
content: Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 1808-1873
label: Names
content: Curtis, George William, 1824-1892
label: Names
content: Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857
label: Names
content: Everett, Edward, 1794-1865
label: Names
content: Gayarré, Charles, 1805-1895
label: Names
content: Gilpin, Henry D. (Henry Dilworth), 1801-1860
label: Names
content: Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857
label: Names
content: Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876
label: Names
content: Kearny, Philip, 1815-1862
label: Names
content: Kirkland, Caroline M. (Caroline Matilda), 1801-1864
label: Names
content: Macready, William Charles, 1793-1873
label: Names
content: Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1831-1912
label: Names
content: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882
label: Names
content: Parsons, Theophilus, 1750-1813
label: Names
content: Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851
label: Names
content: Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873
label: Names
content: Ream, Vinnie, 1847-1914
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content: Russell, Samuel H.
label: Names
content: Scott, Winfield, Mrs
label: Names
content: Sherman, Ellen Ewing, 1824-1888
label: Names
content: Slidell, John, 1793-1871
label: Names
content: Somers, Virginia, Lady
label: Names
content: Stratford de Redcliffe, Stratford Canning, Viscount, 1786-1880
label: Names
content: Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
label: Names
content: Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878
label: Names
content: Tiffany, Osmond, b. 1823
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content: Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1813-1871
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content: Wall, W. I.
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content: Whittlesey, Elisha, 1783-1863
label: Names
content: Wickliffe, R., Jr
topic: label: Occupation
content: Miniature painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Portrait painting -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reels D30 and D33 purchased 1956 from an unknown source. Material on reel 986 transfered from Smithsonian Institution Archives, 1974.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kellogg, Miner K. (Miner Kilbourne), 1814-1889
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Portrait painter, miniature painter, and orientalist; New York, N.Y. and Cincinnati, Ohio.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear Feet ((on 3 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1842-1882
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kellmine
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels D30, D33, and 986 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, photographs, writings, a scrapbook, and printed materials.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS D30 and D33: Correspondence, clippings, and photographs. Included are letters from George William Curtis to Kellogg, October 1846-January 1847, describing Rome (incorrectly attributed to George Washington Parke Custis on microfilm); a letter from Elisha Whittlesey to George Washington Parke Custis, October 23, 1844, commending Miner Kellogg to him; and correspondence dealing with Kellogg's activities as a promoter of Hiram Powers' statue "The Greek Slave" in the mid-nineteenth century.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondents include: Park Benjamin, Sir Stratford Canning, Luigi P. Cesnola, Lewis G. Clark, Edward Everett, Charles E.A. Gayarré, Henry D. Gilpin, Rufus W. Griswold, Reverdy Johnson, Phillip Kearny, Caroline M. Kirkland, Lenox Library, William C. MacReady, Brinsley Marlay, George P. Marsh, National Academy of Design, Theophilus Parsons, Joel R. Poinsett, Vinnie Ream Hoxie, Samuel H. Russell, Mrs. Winfield Scott, Ellen E. Sherman, John Slidell, Lady Virginia Somers (godmother of Kellogg's daughter Virginia), Bayard Taylor, Osmond Tiffany, Henry T. Tuckerman, W. I. Wall, and R. Wickliffe, Jr.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 986: Scrapbook of clippings, collected by Kellogg from New York, Washington, Baltimore and Ohio newspapers. Some clippings were written by Kellogg, including stories about his own paintings, advertisements for his patent canvas stretcher, reports by him on his travel in foreign countries, and article on Hiram Powers, the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1880), Jane Eyre, Emanuel Swedenborg, the Cleveland Academy of Art, art unions, and fireproof buildings. Also included is a copy of a paper, "Fine arts in the United States" given by Kellogg in 1869 to the American Union Academy, Washington, D.C., and a booklet, "Mr. Miner K. Kellogg to his friends," Paris, 1858, describing his relationship with Powers.