Subject: Quakers -- History and Quakers -- Travel / Form: Sketches / Language: English - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

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Extent:: 0.25 linear ft. (1 volume, 1 folder)
Abstract:: The scrapbook of Isaac Shoemaker includes portraits of Shoemaker's family, including Charles Shoemaker, Elizabeth Robeson, Susan Wood, Hannah Taylor, Abraham M. Taylor, George Washington, Daniel Wheeler, and Robert Morton. Also includes sketches of meeting houses, plants found on his travels, and landscapes, including landscapes of South Carolina, Louisiana, western prairies, Spanish Missions in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Yosemite.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 0.23 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: Walter Hinchman's portfolio of sketches and photographs includes the many of the plates used in his book, "Sketches & Poems." The sketches were done during Hinchman's time at a machine shop in Ohio at the end of the Civil War and on a survey trip (1867-1868) for a transcontinental railway from Kansas to California. There are sketches of the Pennsylvania Steel Company (1869), animals, flowers, trees, people, and landscapes.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

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