The gallery of illustrious Americans: containing the portraits and biographical sketches of twenty-four of the most eminent citizens of the American republic, since the death of Washington / From daguerrotypes by Brady - engraved by D'Avignon. C. Edwar...
odd: label: Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint)
content: New York: M. B. Brady, F. D'Avignon, C. E. Lester, 1850.
label: Other Title
content: Illustrious Americans (cover title)
name: label: Creator
content: Lester, C. Edwards (Charles Edwards), 1815-1890
label: Names
content: Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
label: Names
content: D'Avignon, Francis, b. 1813
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The edition which the Archives microfilmed from the National Portrait Gallery did not contain the D'Avignon engravings after the Brady daguerrotypes.
creator: label: Creator
content: Lester, C. Edwards (Charles Edwards), 1815-1890
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item ((on 1 microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1850
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lestchar
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 2397 available only through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original in: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This edition contains only numbers 1-12, biographies of John James Audubon, John Caldwell Calhoun, Lewis Cass, William Ellery Channing, Henry Clay, Millard Fillmore, John Charles Fremont, William Hickling Prescott, Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, Daniel Webster, and Silas Warner. Also included with each biography is the semi-monthly journal, FLY LEAF OF ART AND CRITICISM.