This page provides a subject index for articles in Imprint, the scholarly journal of the American Historical Print Collectors Society; book review subjects have not been included. Note: Numbers refer to item numbers in the Imprint annotated bibliography. This index is derived from that bibliography (rather than the complete articles).
An author index and book review bibliography are also available.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y
A
African Americans:
represented in collection of The Library Company of Philadelphia, 164
in Currier & Ives prints, 195
in work of Lilly Martin Spencer, 214
in E. W. Clay’s Life in Philadelphia, 257
Albert H. Small Collection of Washingtoniana (George Washington University Museum), 250
Anderson, Alexander, letters of, 199, 200
Appalachia depictions in The Land of the Sky, 180
Arkansas Traveller, The, prints of, 125
American Antiquarian Society print collection, 9 ; Dubois Family collection of prints, 206 ; Alfred Jones collection, 242
American Art-Union, 2
American Historical Print Collectors Society, The, history of, 154
American Scenery, 10 ; dating of its prints, 80, 82a ; geographical catalog, 119 ; Hudson River views, 12, 124 ; and T. Addison Richards, 213
Amon Carter Museum print collection, 50
Archives, Public, of Canada, print collection, 73
Art Journal, The, wood engravings of Colorado and the Pacific Railways, 113
Audubon, John James:
as producer, promoter, and publisher, 127
portrait prints, 140
his Birds: identifying original and later editions, 129
facsimile, 96
subscribers, 98
in Cincinnati, 237
Audubon, John Woodhouse, 39
Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington, The, 93, 107
B
B’hoys, prints of, 220
Bachmann, John, 208
Ballou’s Pictorial, illustrations of Mass., 117 ; and A.R. Waud, 137
Baltimore, views of, 59 ; and Civil War, 138
Banknote engravings, 21 ; images of women workers on, 115 ; artist Alfred Jones, 242
Barber, John Warner, 22
Barnum’s Museum, 99
Bartlett, William:
images of, 10
geographical catalog, 119
Hudson River views, 14
his views of Canada, 123
Beacon, New York, prints of factories in, 158
Beck and Pauli Lithographing Co., 60
Beecher, Henry Ward, images relating to 1872 scandal, 139
Bennett, William, early lithograph after, 193
Billings, Hammatt, book illustrations, 67, for Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 81
Bingham, William, Birch’s view of his house, 87
bird’s-eye views of cities:
by John Bachmann, 208
New Orleans, 95
Lawrence, KS, 111
Pittsburgh, 185
birds, illustrations of American, 84
Birds of America, 127 ; identifying originals, restrikes, etc., 129 ; subscribers, 98 ; and Robert Havell, 230
Blyth, Benjamin, 259
Bodmer, Karl, 50, 66 ; facsimile ed., 96
book illustration, American:
and Alexander Anderson, 199, 200
aspects of, 32
of birds, 84
Bible illustration, 200
botanical, 79
children’s: humor in, 70
and Currier & Ives lithographs, 110
by Hammatt Billings, 67
medical, 128
steel engravings, 235
for Tennyson’s Enoch Arden, 52
Boston, as center of lithography, and views of, 62
Boston Artists’ Association, 168
Boston Athenæum print collection, 62
botanical illustration in Philadelphia, 79
Bradley, Will, 34
Brooklyn Bridge, images of, 53
Buell, Abel, 1
Bufford, J. H., prints of The Arkansas Traveller, 125
Burgess, Frank, 70
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, 18
Bush Hill, Philadelphia, 64
C
Cabinet of Natural History . . ., 24
California:
prints of, 50
Currier & Ives prints of, 122
pictorial lettersheets of, 26
Scenery of the Pacific Railways and Colorado, 113
camp meetings, images of, 49
Calvert, Thomas, 169
Canada:
Public Archives of Canada Print Collection, 73
etchings of, by Stephen Parrish and Charles Adams Platt, 143
growth of graphic arts industry in, 147
Picturesque Canada, 85
views of by Bartlett and Canadian artists, 123
prints published in the United States, 217
and early Christmas cards, 221
William Hind prints of the Labrador Peninsula, 239
Canterbury, New Hampshire, views, 174
carte-de-visite photographs, with reproduced historical and popular prints, 260
Catlin, George, 50 ; facsimile ed., 96
cemeteries, rural, images of, 86
certificates, published by James Monroe Vickroy, 223
Charles, William, 11
Cheney, John, 74
Chicago Historical Society print collection, 56
Chicago Illustrated, 43
Chicago portage, maps of, 76
children’s book illustration, 70 , 110 ; of monkeys, 238
children, in lithographs of Lilly Martin Spencer, 214
Choris, Louis, 255
Christmas cards, 221
chromolithography, of posters, 9
Church, Frederick Stuart, 178
Cincinnati, Ohio, and John James Audubon, 237 ; lithography in, 241, 243, 245, 246
city views as promotional pieces, 111 ; in souvenir viewbooks, 78
Civil War prints, of Fort McHenry, 240 ; produced in Cincinnati, 246
Clay, Edward Williams, 42, 257
Cole, Thomas, Voyage of Life series, 75, 244
collecting practices, “Finders Keepers,” 105 ; at the National Portrait Gallery, 71 ; of the Longfellow family, 136 ; in the Gilded Age, 176 ; of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 227
Collins & Perkins, 128
Colorado, images of, 113
Columbus, Christopher, early iconography of, 103
Comic art, B’hoys of Thomas Butler Gunn, 220
Confederate image, the, 77
Confederate leaders, prints of, 77
Cosmopolitan Art Association, The, engravings of, 194
Cox, Palmer, 70
Cruickshank, George, illustrations for Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 81
Currier, Nathaniel, 196 ; photo of, 120 ; and prints of “questionable taste,” 121, 141 ; and Steam Boat Lexington, 93, 107
Currier & Ives:
and American children’s books, 110
and American parlor, 94
and Harry T. Peters, 7
and image of woman, 38
and images of African Americans, 195
and Kellogg firm, 82
carte-de-visite photographs of prints, 175
Four Seasons of Life: Old Age: The Season of Rest, 94
harness racing prints, 222
in the 1920s, 228
partnership of, 209
previously uncataloged, 133, 160, 189, 203
prints, most popular, 215
prints of The Arkansas Traveller, 125
prints of “questionable taste,” 121, 141
photograph of Supreme Court, 100
“unconventional C&I,” 145, 175, 184, 189, 218
research, 108
The Season of Rest, 94
D
Darwin, Charles and theory of evolution, 224
de Thulstrup, Thure, 131 ;
Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection, 18
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 70
double-sided prints, 171
Donaldson & Elmes, 246
Doughty, Thomas, 24
Downing, Jack, mythical hero, 42
Dubois, George, 206
Dubois Family collection, 206
Durand, Asher B., 21
E
Edmonds, Francis William, 21
Ellis, George B., 102
Enders (Ostrom) Ornithology Collection, The Watkinson Library, Trinity College, 84
Endicott & Co., prints in The Mariners’ Museum, 167
Enoch Arden, illustrations for, 52
erotic images, 247 ; in American sheet music, 187
Essex Institute print collection, 39
etching revival, and Winslow Homer, 204
etchings, reproductive and replica, 177
F
facsimile eds. of Audubon, Bodmer, and Catlin, 96
Family Electioneering or . . ., 11
Farny, Henry F., 55
Farrer, Henry, 47
fashion plates, and scrimshaw, 225
Floral prints of James D. Smillie, 219
Fort McHenry views, 240
Fort Ticonderoga Museum print resources, 156
“Four Seasons of Life: Old Age: The Season of Rest,” 94
Fraktur in Taufscheine collection of Klaus Stopp, 183
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 14 , 55 ; and F. H. Schell, 138
Franklin, Benjamin, portrait prints of, 153
Free Library of Philadelphia, 37, 46
Freemasonry, symbols and prints of, 202
Frost, A.B., 70
G
Gibson & Co., 245
Gifford, R. Swain, 20
Gleason’s Pictorial, 5 ; illustrations of Mass., 117
Gold Rush, California, lithographs of, 31 ; lettersheets, 26
Goldsmith’s Daughter, The, 109
Goupil, Vibert & Co., 37
Graham, Billy, Center Museum, Wheaton, IL, 49
Green-Wood cemetery, engravings of, 86
Gunn, Thomas Butler, 220
H
Hancock, John, portrait of, 48
Harper’s Weekly, views of:
Hudson River, 92
shipbuilding, 97
Wall Street panics, 14
and Henry F. Farny, 55
and Thure de Thulstrup, 131
Hartford, Connecticut, early lithography, 201
Havell, Robert, Jr., and The Birds of America, 230
Heine, William, 211
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village print resources, 16, 33
Hind, Henry Youle, 239
Hind, William, 239
Historic Deerfield print collection, 182
History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 35, 166
Hitchings, Henry, 159
Hoen, A., & Co., 59
Homer, Winslow:
wood engravings of, 5
book illustrations by, 134
Sharpshooter, 126
and etching revival, 204
and unrecorded portrait of General Giuseppe Garibaldi, 162
Hone, Philip, 158
Hopkins, John Henry, Sr., 157
Hopkins, John Henry, Jr., 157
Horses and harness racing in Currier & Ives prints, 222
Hudson River Portfolio, 10 , 124
Hudson River views, 124 ; from Harper’s Weekly, 92
Huntington Library print collection, 142
I
Imbert, Anthony, 42
Imprint, bibliography of, 155, 261
Ives, James Merritt, 209
J
Jackson, Andrew, and “Coffin Handbills,” 165, 172
Johnson, Eastman, 132
Johnston, David Claypoole, 42 ; anti-Masonic illustrations, 231, 236
Jones, Alfred, 242
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 66
K
Kellogg, E. C., 191
Kellogg firm, Hartford, 82, 201
Keppler, Joseph, 139
King, Charles Bird, 35
Klauprech & Menzel, 241, 243, 245
Kollner, Augustus, 37
Kotzebue Expedition (1816-1817) of Alaska, California, and Hawaii, 255
Kurz, Louis, early years, 43 ; and Civil War prints, 205
Kurz & Allison, 38
L
Labrador Peninsula, prints of, 239
Leney, William Satchwell, 190
lettersheets, pictorial, 26
Lewis, James Otto, 50
Lexington, The Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat, 93, 107
Library Company of Philadelphia, The, Afro-Americana graphics collection, 164
Lincoln, Abraham, in prints, 61
Lion, Jules, 252
lithography, early examples, 193
living museums, use of prints, at Old Sturbridge Village, 180 ; at Historic Deerfield, 181
Lloyd, Edward Stuart, 240
Locomotives, prints of, 207
Longacre, James Barton, 21
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, as print collector, 136
Longfellow National Historic Site print collection, 136
Lossing, Benson, J., 124
Lucas, Fielding, Jr., 59
M
MacBrair, Archibald, 245
Magnus, Charles, 26
Maguire, Mary, 212
maps, of America, at the American Museum in Britain, 91 ; of Chicago portage, 76 ; of Springfield, MA, 249
Mariners’ Museum, The, collection of Endicott & Co. prints, 167
markets for prints in America, 1670-1790, 150
Maryland Historical Society print collection, 59
Masonic prints, 202 ; anti-Masonic prints of David Claypoole Johnston, 231
Massachusetts, people and places illustrated in Ballou’s and Gleason’s Pictorials, 117
Massachusetts Historical Society print collection, 59
Matteawan (see Beacon, New York)
Mathews, Alfred E., 246
McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 35, 50, 166
McKenney & Hall, 166
medical illustrations, early, 128
medical imagery, in political prints, 28
Mexican War, prints of, 50
Meyer, Herrman J., 64
Meyer, Joseph, 64
Meyer’s Universum, 64
mezzotint engraver, John Sartain, 54
mezzotint portraits of the Washingtons, 188
Middleton, Strobridge & Co., 245, 246
Middleton’s National Oil Portraits, 253
Milbert, Jacques Gerard, 10, 124
Milwaukee, as center of lithography, 60
missions, city, in New York, images of, 45
Missouri River towns, views of, 64
Monotypes of Peter Moran, 256
Moran, Emily Kelley, 233
Moran, Peter, etchings of the Southwest, 116 ; and Philadelphia Society of Etchers, 118 ; monotypes of, 256
Moran, Thomas, painter-lithographs, 90 ; and Picturesque Canada, 85
Mount Vernon, images of, 234
Museum of Our National Heritage (Lexington, MA), Washington exhibition, 44 ; Masonic collection of, 202
Museum of the City of New York print collection, 23 ; and Harry T. Peters, 7
N
National Portrait Gallery print collection, 71, 173
Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, 58
New England Scenery from Nature Series, 168
New Orleans, bird’s-eye views of, 95 ; and lithographer Jules Lion, 252
New York:
engravings in the Collection des Prospects, 198
etchings of, by Henry Farrer, 47 ; by Charles Henry White, 135
marketing and collecting prints of, 170
missions in, 45
views from the collection of I. N. Phelps Stokes, 163
New York Etching Club, 20
New-York Historical Society print collection, 41, 72
New York Public Library print collection, 15, 83
Newell, Peter, 70
O
Old Sturbridge Village print collection, 181
P
Painter-Etchers, and Whistler, 69
paintings derived from prints, 112
parlor, American, and Currier & Ives, 94
Parrish, Stephen, Canadian etchings of, 143 ; and Philadelphia Society of Etchers, 118
Patriotic Ladies, A Society of, Edenton in North Carolina, 144
Peabody Essex Museum print collection, 39
Peale, Rembrandt, 192
Pendleton, John, 74
Pennell, Joseph, 57 ; and Philadelphia Society of Etchers, 118
Pennsylvania Historical Society print collection, 25
Perkins, Jacob, 21
Perkins, Joseph, 114
Perkins’ Sun Lithographic Establishment, New York, 114
Peters, Harry T., 7
Pittsburgh, bird’s-eye view of, 185
Platt, Charles Adams, etchings of Canada, 143
Philadelphia:
views by William Birch: 12
Bush Hill, 64
the Third Street House, 87
botanical illustration in, 79
Philadelphia Society of Etchers, 118
and E. W. Clay’s Life in Philadelphia, 257
Picturesque Canada, 85
“Picturing America, 1492-1899,” New York Public Library exhibition, 83
photographs (carte-de-visite), with reproduced historical and popular prints, 260
political prints:
medical imagery in, 28
British print, circa 1775, 144
in the Civil War era, 179
1804 New York gubernatorial election print, 216
and work of Frank Weitenkampf, 229
“Coffin Handbills” of 1828 presidential campaign, 165, 172
Porte Crayon (David Hunter Strother), 130
Postcards, 254
Posters, American, 8
Pownall, Thomas, Gov., 17
Prang, Louis, 6
prints as history, 173
prints as sources, for oil paintings, 112 ; for “sandpaper paintings,” 152
“Prized Prints” at The New-York Historical Society, 72
Public Archives of Canada print collection, 73
Puck, lithographs of Beecher-Tilton scandal, 139
R
railroad, an “Artists’ Excursion” on, 130
rare American prints at The New-York Historical Society, 72
Reed, Abner, 106
Rhode Island School of Design, American wallpapers at, 101
Richards, T. Addison, 213
Roesler, J. Nep, 246
Roosevelt, Franklin D., as print collector, 227
S
Sachse, E., & Co., 59
Sag Harbor, New York, 197
Salem, Massachusetts, Essex Institute prints, 39
Samyn, Louis, 241
Sandby, Paul, 17
sandpaper paintings of the ancient world, 152
Sartain, Emily, 65
Sartain, John, 54
Scenographia Americana, 17
Schell, Francis H., 138
science, men of, use of portrait prints by, 153
scrimshaw, 225
security printing for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 226
Shaker dance prints, 104
Shaker village, prints of, 174
Sharpshooter, The, by Winslow Homer, 126
sheet music, American, 251, 258 ; and erotic images, 187
Shelburne Museum Print Collection, 149
Sheppard, William Ludwell, 180
shipbuilding, images of, in New York, 97
Sloan, John, early years, 30
Smillie, James (1807-1885), engraving of Voyage of Life, 75, 244 ; collection of, 186
Smillie, James David (1833-1909):
engraving of The Goldsmith’s Daughter, 109
floral prints, 219
and New York Etching Club, 20
“Notes” on his father’s collection, 186
Spencer, Lilly Martin, 214
Springfield, Massachusetts, maps of, 249
Stafford Springs, CT, Six Views in Aquatinta (1810), 106
Statue of Liberty, images of, 68
Steel engravings, in book illustrations, 235
Stock Market, N.Y., panics of, 14
Stokes, I.N. Phelps, 15, 83, 163
Strother, David Hunter, 130
souvenir viewbooks, after 1876 Centennial Exhibition, 78
St. Louis Mercantile Library Association print collection, 210
Stopp, Klaus, collection of Taufscheine, 183
Sumner, Charles, 179
T
Tappan & Bradford, and New England Scenery from Nature Series, 168
Taufscheine collection of Klaus Stopp, 183
Tannahill Research Library, Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan, 16, 33
Tennyson’s Enoch Arden, illustrations for, 52
textile industry, images of women in, 115
Thulstrup, Thure de, 131
Ticknor and Fields, 52
Ticonderoga views, 156
Tilton, J. E. & Co., 52
trade cards of Charles Darwin and theory of evolution, 224
U
uncataloged Currier & Ives prints, 133, 160, 189, 203
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, illustrations for, 67 , 81
“unconventional” Currier & Ives items, 145, 175, 184, 189, 218
United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing collection, 226
United States government publications related to the American West, 161
United States Illustrated, The, 64
V
Valentines, American printed, 13
Vickroy, James M. 223
Voyage of Life, engravings of, 75, 244
Volck, Adalbert Johann, 59 , 77
vues d’optique, 248
W
Wall Street, images of panics of, 14
wallpapers, American, at Rhode Island School of Design, 101
Washington, George, American Superhero, 44 ; 18th-century images of, 51 ; in mezzotint portrait, 188 ; prints of Mount Vernon, 234
Washington, Martha, images of, 188, 232
Washington family, the, prints of, 148
Watkinson Library, Trinity College, 84
Waud, Alfred R., in Boston, 1856-60, 137
Webb, Electra Havemeyer, print collection at Shelburne Museum, 149
Weitenkampf, Frank, 229
West, Benjamin, his use of prints as sources, 112
West Point, early prints of, 29
West Point Museum prints, 29
Whipple, M. J., 168
Whistler, James M, his influence on American Painter-Etchers, 69 ; on Pennell, 57
White, Charles Henry, 135
White Mountain School of Art, 6
Wissler, Jacques, 46
Wittemann Brothers, 87
Wood, Thomas Waterman, 146
wood engraving, for medical illustrations, 128
Woodward, J. D., 113
women, images of, 38 ; working in factories, 115 ; images of Martha Washington, 232
women artists, lithographer Mary Maguire, 212 ; artist Lilly Martin Spencer, 214 ; painter-etcher Emily Kelley Moran, 233
Y
Yale, Leroy M., 20
Yale University Art Gallery print collection, 88