Table of Contents
- Collection Summary
- Scope and Content Note
- Subject Headings
- Administrative Information
- Access and Use
- Encoding Information
- Container List
Collection Summary
| Repository: | Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries |
|---|---|
| Creator: | Vassar College. Library |
| Title: | Portrait Collection |
| Dates: | 1673-1962 |
| Quantity: | 4.6 cubic feet (5 oversize boxes, 5 mapcase folders, and 2 separate items) |
| Abstract: | Artificial collection of portraits of significant figures in history, literature and the arts. |
Scope and Content Note
Artificial collection of portraits of significant figures in history, literature and the arts. Created and added to over several decades for the purposes of library instruction.
TopAccess and Use
Access
This collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library without any additional restrictions.
Restrictions on Use
Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.
Subject Headings
Document Types:
- Portraits
VCL Categories:
- Art and Artists
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Portrait Collection, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Rachel Schles, February 2007.
Acquisition Information
Samuel S. Constant portrait was received in 2004 (A2004-017); other items acquired from various sources.
Container List
| Folder 1.01 (Oversize) | Agrippa, Henricus Cornelius, undated |
| Folder 1.01 (Oversize) | Ann, Queen, undated |
| Folder 1.01 (Oversize) | Antino O., undated |
| Folder 1.01 (Oversize) | Antonino, Marcus Aurelius, undated |
| Folder 1.02 (Oversize) | Ariosto, undated |
| Folder 1.02 (Oversize) | Aristotle, undated |
| Folder 1.02 (Oversize) | Arnold, Matthew, undated |
| Folder 1.02 (Oversize) | Audobon, John J., undated |
| Folder 1.03 (Oversize) | Bartlett, Paul, undated |
| Folder 1.03 (Oversize) | Beerbohm, Max, 1911 |
| Folder 5.08 (Oversize) | Beerbohm, Max, 1929 |
| Folder 1.03 (Oversize) | Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1927 |
| Folder 1.03 (Oversize) | Bellingham, John, 18 May 1812 |
| Folder 1.04 (Oversize) | Benet, Stephen Vincent, 1943 |
| Folder 1.04 (Oversize) | Bentivoglio, Cardinal Guido, undated |
| Folder 1.04 (Oversize) | Blackstone, Sir William, 1874 |
| Folder 1.05 (Oversize) | Blashfield, Edwin Howland, undated |
| Folder 1.05 (Oversize) | Bodley, Sir Thomas, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 1.06 (Oversize) | Bojer, Johan, 1920 |
| Folder 1.06 (Oversize) | Bombast, undated |
| Folder 1.06 (Oversize) | Bonaparte, Napoleon, undated |
| Folder 1.07 (Oversize) | Brougham, Lord, undated |
| Folder 1.07 (Oversize) | Buck, Pease S., undated |
| Folder 1.07 (Oversize) | Bullen, Ann, 1738 |
| Folder 1.07 (Oversize) | Bullion, Cardinal de, 1673 |
| Folder 1.08 (Oversize) | Burroughs, John, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 1.09 (Oversize) | Camden, Charles Pratt Earl, 1794 |
| Folder 1.09 (Oversize) | Carter, Elizabeth, 1788 |
| Folder 1.09 (Oversize) | Cartwright, Major, 1831 |
| Folder 1.10 (Oversize) | Cesare, C., undated |
| Folder 1.10 (Oversize) | Chamberlain, Neville, 1938 |
| Folder 1.10 (Oversize) | Charron, Pierre, undated |
| Folder 1.11 (Oversize) | Chase, Salmon P., undated |
| Folder 1.11 (Oversize) | Christian VII, 1768 |
| Folder 1.11 (Oversize) | Cibelle, undated |
| Folder 1.12 (Oversize) | Clemenceal, M. George, 1918 (2 item) |
| Folder 1.13 (Oversize) | Condillac, 1780 |
| Folder 1.14 (Oversize) | Constant, Samuel S., undated |
| Folder 1.13 (Oversize) | Cooper, undated |
| Folder 1.13 (Oversize) | Cowleius (Cowley), Abrahamus, undated |
| Folder 1.14 (Oversize) | Cromwell, Oliver, undated |
| Folder 5.08 (Oversize) | De La Mare, Walter, 1929 |
| Folder 1.15 (Oversize) | Defoe, undated |
| Folder 1.15 (Oversize) | Dickens, Charles "Boz", 1838 |
| Folder 1.15 (Oversize) | Dickens, Charles, His Wife, and Sister, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 1.15 (Oversize) | Diderot, undated |
| Folder 1.16 (Oversize) | Dodgson, Campbell, 1934 |
| Folder 1.16 (Oversize) | Drinkwater, John, 1919 |
| Folder 1.16 (Oversize) | Dumas, Alexandre, 1902 |
| Folder 1.17 (Oversize) | Duns, Jean, undated |
| Folder 5.08 (Oversize) | Eddington, A. S., 1929 |
| Folder 1.17 (Oversize) | Edward VIII, King, 1936 (3 items) |
| Folder 1.17 (Oversize) | Egan, Pierce, 1832 |
| Folder 5.08 (Oversize) | Einstein, Albert, 1929 |
| Folder M1 (Oversize) | Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1956 |
| Folder 1.18 (Oversize) | Elizabeth, Queen, undated |
| Folder 2.04 (Oversize) | Elizabeth II, Queen and King George VI, 1936, 1937 (2 items) |
| Folder 1.18 (Oversize) | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, undated |
| Folder M1 (Oversize) | Evarts, William, 1884 |
| Folder 1.19 (Oversize) | Fabre, J. H., 1914 |
| Folder 1.19 (Oversize) | Faguet, undated |
| Folder 1.19 (Oversize) | Fenelon (Francois de Salignac de la Mothe), undated |
| Folder 1.20 (Oversize) | Ferdinand I, 1922 |
| Folder 1.20 (Oversize) | Ferrimontanus, undated |
| Folder 1.20 (Oversize) | Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, undated |
| Folder 1.21 (Oversize) | Foch, Marshal, undated (3 items) |
| Folder 1.22 (Oversize) | France, Anatole, 1914, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 1.22 (Oversize) | Franklin, Benjamin, 1778, 1950 (2 items) |
| Mapcase (separate drawer) (Oversize) | Franklin, Benjamin, 1859 |
| Folder 2.01 (Oversize) | Frederic II, 1756 |
| Folder 2.01 (Oversize) | Galba, Ser., undated |
| Folder 2.01 (Oversize) | Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1919 |
| Folder 2.01 (Oversize) | Gates, Horatio, undated |
| Folder 2.02 (Oversize) | George I, King, 1746 |
| Folder 2.02 (Oversize) | George IV, King, undated |
| Folder 2.03 (Oversize) | George V, King, 1928, 1929, 1935, undated (4 items) |
| Folder 2.04 (Oversize) | George VI, King and Queen Elizabeth II, 1936, 1937 (2 items) |
| Folder 2.04 (Oversize) | George, M. Lloyd, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 2.05 (Oversize) | Gerard, undated |
| Folder 2.05 (Oversize) | Giove, undated |
| Folder 2.05 (Oversize) | Giraud, Jacob Post, Jr., undated |
| Folder 2.05 (Oversize) | Gladstone, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 2.06 (Oversize) | Gneifenau, undated |
| Folder 2.06 (Oversize) | Goethe, undated |
| Folder 2.06 (Oversize) | Green, John Richard, 1929 |
| Folder 2.07 (Oversize) | Gutenberg, undated |
| Folder 2.07 (Oversize) | Harrington, Lucy, undated |
| Folder 5.08 (Oversize) | Hauptmann, Gerhart, 1929 |
| Folder 2.07 (Oversize) | Hawker, Robert, 1820 |
| Folder 2.08 (Oversize) | Hayes, President, and Cabinet, 1880 |
| Folder 2.08 (Oversize) | Hill, Lord, 1819 |
| Folder 2.08 (Oversize) | Hillman, Sydney, undated |
| Folder 2.09 (Oversize) | Hitler, Adolph, undated |
| Folder 2.09 (Oversize) | Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Senior, approximately 1875 (2 items) |
| Folder 2.09 (Oversize) | Hoover, Herbert, 1925 |
| Folder M1 (Oversize) | Hoover, Herbert, undated |
| Folder M6 (Oversize) | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1856 |
| Folder 2.09 (Oversize) | Hume, David, 1806 |
| Folder 2.09 (Oversize) | James, Thomas, undated |
| Folder 2.10 (Oversize) | Jefferson, Thomas, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 2.10 (Oversize) | Jenkins, Henry, 1846 |
| Folder 2.11 (Oversize) | Joachim, Joseph, undated |
| Folder M2 (Oversize) | Joffre, General, 1915 |
| Folder 2.11 (Oversize) | John, Augustus, undated |
| Folder 2.11 (Oversize) | Johnson, Samuel, undated |
| Folder 2.11 (Oversize) | Kent, Duchess Of, 1818? |
| Folder 2.12 (Oversize) | Kruell, Gustov, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 2.13 (Oversize) | Laud, Archbishop, undated |
| Folder 2.13 (Oversize) | Lavisse, undated |
| Folder 2.13 (Oversize) | Langtree, L., undated |
| Folder 2.14 (Oversize) | Leapold, Prince of Saxe Cobura, 1817 |
| Folder 2.14 (Oversize) | Lincoln, Abraham, 1909, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 2.15 (Oversize) | Lincoln, Abraham, 1913, 1915, 1956, undated (4 items) |
| Folder 2.16 (Oversize) | Lincoln, Abraham, 1909, 1935, undated (4 items) |
| Folder M3 (Oversize) | Lincoln, Abraham, undated (6 items) |
| Mapcase (separate drawer) (Oversize) | Lincoln, Abraham, 1869 |
| Folder 2.17 (Oversize) | Lindbergh, Charles A., undated |
| Folder 2.17 (Oversize) | Locke, John, 1738 |
| Folder 2.17 (Oversize) | Lown, Clarence, undated |
| Folder 3.01 (Oversize) | Lowth, Robert, 1809 |
| Folder 3.01 (Oversize) | Lydgate, John, undated |
| Folder 3.01 (Oversize) | Lynes, George Platt, undated |
| Folder 3.01 (Oversize) | MacCracken, Henry Noble, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 5.08 (Oversize) | MacDonald, Rt. Hon. J. Ramsey, 1929 |
| Folder 3.02 (Oversize) | Malebranche, undated |
| Folder 3.02 (Oversize) | Manning, undated |
| Folder 3.02 (Oversize) | Maria, Countess of Coventry, undated |
| Folder 3.02 (Oversize) | Marie, Queen of Romania, 1922 |
| Folder 3.03 (Oversize) | Marshall, John, 1877, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 3.03 (Oversize) | Mary, Dutchess of Lancaster, 1758 |
| Folder 3.03 (Oversize) | Mary II, Queen, 1744 |
| Folder 3.04 (Oversize) | Mary, Queen, The Queen Mother, 1937 |
| Folder M2 (Oversize) | Masaryk, T. G., undated |
| Folder 5.08 (Oversize) | Melchett, Rt. Hon. Lord, of Landford, 1929 |
| Folder 3.04 (Oversize) | Milton, John, 1741 |
| Folder 3.04 (Oversize) | Mommsen, Theodor, 1897 |
| Folder 3.04 (Oversize) | Montagu, Lady Elizabeth, undated |
| Folder 3.05 (Oversize) | Montagu, Mrs., 1809 |
| Folder 3.05 (Oversize) | Montgomery, James, 1819 |
| Folder 3.05 (Oversize) | Moore, Marianne, undated |
| Folder 3.05 (Oversize) | More, Hannah, 1824 |
| Folder 3.06 (Oversize) | Morris, William, undated |
| Folder 3.06 (Oversize) | Morse, Samuel, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 3.06 (Oversize) | Nelson, Lord Horatio, 1938 |
| Folder 3.06 (Oversize) | O'Keefe, Georgia, undated |
| Folder 3.07 (Oversize) | O'Neil, Miss, 1816 |
| Folder 3.07 (Oversize) | Oastler, Richard, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 3.07 (Oversize) | Pasteur, Louis, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 3.08 (Oversize) | Panizzi, undated |
| Folder 3.08 (Oversize) | Peel, Robert, undated |
| Folder 3.08 (Oversize) | Pennell, Joseph, undated |
| Folder 3.09 (Oversize) | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1930 |
| Folder 3.09 (Oversize) | Pomponius Porphyrio, undated |
| Folder 3.09 (Oversize) | Prior, Matthew, undated |
| Folder 3.10 (Oversize) | Reade, Charles, 1913 |
| Folder 3.10 (Oversize) | Rembrandt, undated |
| Folder 3.10 (Oversize) | Renan, Ernest, 1823 |
| Folder 3.10 (Oversize) | Richardot and Son, 1894 |
| Folder 3.11 (Oversize) | Rivera, Prima de, undated |
| Folder 3.11 (Oversize) | Rockefeller, John D., undated (2 items) |
| Folder 3.11 (Oversize) | Rogers, Samuel, undated |
| Folder 3.12 (Oversize) | Roosevelt, Franklin, 1946, undated (4 items) |
| Folder 3.12 (Oversize) | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1905, 1908 (2 items) |
| Folder 4.01 (Oversize) | Rossetti, Christina, 1912 |
| Folder 4.01 (Oversize) | Rossetti, D. G., undated |
| Folder 4.01 (Oversize) | Rostand, undated |
| Folder 4.02 (Oversize) | Rousseau, J. J., undated (5 items) |
| Folder M6 (Oversize) | Rousseau, J. J., undated (2 items) |
| Folder 4.03 (Oversize) | Ruskin, John, undated |
| Folder 4.03 (Oversize) | Sa Saintete Pie XII, 1939 |
| Folder 4.03 (Oversize) | Saltykov, Minhail Eugrafoviah, 1940 |
| Folder 4.03 (Oversize) | Sand, George, 1840 |
| Folder 4.04 (Oversize) | Savonarola, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 4.04 (Oversize) | Selden, John, undated |
| Folder 4.04 (Oversize) | Shakespeare, William, 1719, 1914 (2 items) |
| Folder 4.05 (Oversize) | Shaw, George Bernard, undated |
| Folder 4.05 (Oversize) | Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, undated |
| Folder 4.05 (Oversize) | Shelley, Percy Bysshe, undated (5 items) |
| Folder 4.06 (Oversize) | Sherman, William T., undated |
| Folder 4.06 (Oversize) | Shuter, Mr., undated |
| Folder 4.06 (Oversize) | Simon, Jules, undated |
| Folder 4.06 (Oversize) | Simpson, James Alexander, 1936 |
| Folder 5.08 (Oversize) | Steer, Philip Wilson, 1929 |
| Folder 4.07 (Oversize) | Stokes, Lydia Babbott, undated |
| Folder 4.07 (Oversize) | Stuart, Gilbert, 1928 |
| Folder 4.07 (Oversize) | Sturge, Joseph, undated |
| Folder 4.07 (Oversize) | Swinburne, undated |
| Folder 4.08 (Oversize) | Talfourd, Serjieant, undated |
| Folder 4.08 (Oversize) | Tennyson, Alfred, undated |
| Folder 4.08 (Oversize) | [Tennyson, Alfred ?], undated |
| Folder 4.08 (Oversize) | Truman, Harry, 1945 |
| Folder 4.09 (Oversize) | Tsar Nicolaievitch, 1905 |
| Folder 4.09 (Oversize) | Tsar Nicolaievitch and family, 1905 |
| Folder 4.09 (Oversize) | Turgot, undated |
| Folder M4 (Oversize) | Vassar, John Guy, 1861 |
| Folder 4.09 (Oversize) | Venerable, Sally Stokes, VC 1947, 1949 |
| Folder 4.09 (Oversize) | Voltaire, undated |
| Folder 4.10 (Oversize) | Von Brandenburg, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1875 |
| Folder 4.10 (Oversize) | Washington, Mary Ball, and stekches, 1914, 1928 (6 items) |
| Folder 5.01 (Oversize) | Washington, George, 1909, 1912, 1957 (3 items) |
| Folder 5.02 (Oversize) | Washington, George, 1909, 1926, undated |
| Folder M5 (Oversize) | Washington, George, 1932, undated (2 items) |
| Folder 5.03 (Oversize) | Wayland, F., undated (2 items) |
| Folder 5.03 (Oversize) | Webster, Daniel, undated |
| Folder 5.03 (Oversize) | Whitman, Walt, undated (3 items) |
| Folder 5.04 (Oversize) | William III, King, 1744 |
| Folder 5.04 (Oversize) | Wilson, Woodrow, undated |
| Folder M5 (Oversize) | Wilson, Woodrow, 1918 (2 items) |
| Folder 5.04 (Oversize) | Wordsworth, William, 1841 |
| Folder 5.05 (Oversize) | Wynn, Watkin Williams, 1742 |
| Folder 5.05 (Oversize) | Yale, Elihu, 1962 |
| Folder 5.06 (Oversize) | Unidentified Man, undated |
| Folder 5.06 (Oversize) | Unidentified Woman with Dog, undated |
| Folder 5.07 (Oversize) | Unidentified Man, undated |
| Folder 5.07 (Oversize) | Unidentified Man, undated |
| Folder 5.07 (Oversize) | Unidentified Man, undated |
| Folder 5.07 (Oversize) | Unidentified Group, 1911 |
| Folder 5.07 (Oversize) | Unidentified Group, undated |
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Details
Abstract
Artificial collection of portraits of significant figures in history, literature and the arts.
Member of
Finding Aid Date
Dates: 1673-1962
Document Types
Subject (Topical)
Collection Title
Portrait Collection
