Cover image for [George Nathan Newman collection] [1815-1951]
[George Nathan Newman collection] [1815-1951]
Title:
[George Nathan Newman collection] [1815-1951]
Author:
Newman, George Nathan, compiler.
Physical Description:
12 containers : illustrations, photographs, portraits
Summary:
Includes : Photocopies and photostats of various engravings of the steamer Walk-in-the-Water, which plied the waters around Detroit ca. 1815-1820 ; photographs and reproductions of photographs of Buffalo, N.Y., including panoramic photos of the Buffalo skyline taken by Charles L. Pond in 1870 from the scaffolding around the steeple of St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, and a more recent aerial photo of the northeast extension of Main Street ; woodcut engravings of Buffalo ca. 1840-1861, most with the engraver's mark, "Wightman Buffalo" ; Newman family correspondence, 1886-1893, 1896-1903 ; letters of George Nathan Newman gifts of books to libraries, including pertinent newspaper clippings ; daguerreotype portraits (including miniature portraits) and photographs of the Newman family ; original Newman family records, "extracted from family Bibles by George Nathan Newman, " both originals and a bound typescript ([ii], 91, 12 leaves ; 29 x 22 cm.) ; early engravings and photostats of the same of early Buffalo, and one autograph album of family, friends, acquaintances.
General Note:
Title assigned by cataloger.

Containers are of varying sizes and types.

Gift of the compiler, ca. 1930-1951.
Language:
English