MS 4817 Design used as colophon in Bureau of American Ethnology publications
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4817

OPPS NEG 54857-a
name: label: Artist
content: Hatch, Lorenzo James, 1856-1914
label: Artist
content: Nichols, H. H. (Henry Hobart), 1816-1887
label: Names
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
creator: label: Artist
content: Hatch, Lorenzo James, 1856-1914
label: Artist
content: Nichols, H. H. (Henry Hobart), 1816-1887
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Henry Hobart Nichols [Sr.] (1838-1887) was an engraver and illustrator. He is presumed to be responsible for the majority of the Bureau's early engravings, if only as a supervisor to other engravers.
label: Biographical Note
content: Lorenzo James Hatch (1856-1914) was an artist best known for his work as a  portrait engraver in Washington, D.C. and New York. He worked for the United States Bureau of Printing and Engraving, private bank note printers, and in China, assisting the government with establishing a government bureau of printing and engraving.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1896
container: label: Container
content: Box 4817
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4817
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Engravings
label: Type
content: Proof sheets
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Engravings
label: Genre/Form
content: Proof sheets
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of two (2) examples of a design that was used as a colophon on the title page of the Bureau of [American] Ethnology Annual Reports (beginning 1881) and Bulletins (beginning 1887). The design depicts a rain symbol in sky, a cliff dwelling and pictographs on a cliff.  One example is signed "Lorenzo J. Hatch Sc /  1896."  The other example is signed "H. H. Nichols Sc."


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