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Maker(s):	Unknown
Culture:	American (19th century)
Title:	Scrapbook of Dr. Francis E. DuBois
Date Made:	ca. 1875-1900
Type:	Book/Manuscript/Document
Materials:	leather bound photograph album
Measurements:	Overall: 10 in x 13 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 25.4 cm x 34.9 cm x 3.8 cm
Accession Number:	AC 1953.12
Credit Line:	Museum purchase from Mr. Robert G. McIntyre
Museum Collection:	Mead Art Museum at Amherst College

Label Text:
This photograph album was puchased from the Macbeth Gallery in New York. It includes a large collection of mid-19th century autographs, including those of supreme court justices, artists, authors, poets, composers, musicians and political figures. It also contains a group of fin small paintings and drawings by Martin Johnson Heade, Arthur Parton, Kruseman van Elten, J.G. Brown, George Herbert McCord, Archibald Cary Smith, Julian O. Davidson, and John L. Fitch. Of special interest are two letters from Heade's longtime friend, Frederic Edwin Church as well as others written by Rembrandt Peale, Asher B. Durand and A.H. Wyant. Doctor DuBois, the owner of the scrapbook, has lived in New York, Vermont and Florida.

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