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Manuscript

Gridiron Club Annual Dinner Menu

Date: 04 08 1972
Description: Front and back of two-sided menu for the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by Eldon Pletcher of club president (Edgar A. Poe?) posing with...
Photograph

Rock Festival

Date: 06 30 1970
Description: Elevated view of a man standing wearing a vest, furry hat and headband, American Flag cape and holding a tin of sardines in front of a crowd sitting at a r...
Photograph

Impoverished Tannery Worker

Date: 03 02 1965
Description: A man is holding a young girl in his arms. She is holding a bag of Geiser's potato chips. Caption reads: "Poverty faces this father's six daughters, 3 to 1...
Photograph

John Adams

Date: 1825
Description: Lithographic portrait of John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (1797-1801). Inscription reads: "Engraved by J.B. Longacre from a Painting by B. Ot...
Photograph

Brigadier General Barton Stone Alexander

Date: 1866
Description: Full-length portrait of Barton Stone Alexander, an architect, engineer, and United States Army officer. He held the rank of Lieutenant colonel in the Union...
Drawing

Fisher Ames

Date: 
Description: Engraved lithographic waist-up portrait of Fisher Ames posed sitting in a chair holding a book. He was a Federalist politician. He was a member of the Mass...

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