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15 October 1861
Stafford, Robert H. (fl. 1837-1866)
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He writes that he received the blanket and requests his shoes and suspenders. He will send his pistol along with some money home.
GLC02618.009
circa 1852-1893
Bachelder, John B. (1825-1894)
[Collection of sketches and watercolors] [decimalized]
Consists of sketches of mostly scenery but some house portraits, monument studies, and notes. Watercolor and graphite. The dates span from 1852 to 1893 but many are undated scenes of Pennsylvania and the New York Finger Lakes region from 1874-1875...
GLC02673
no date
Bachelder, John B.
[Pencil / charcoal drawing of house on a hill beside water, with sail boat in background.]
Appears to be early work.
GLC02673.01
[Pencil drawing. Finely delineated. Shown from a distance through trees.]
JBB specialized in landscape view of towns before and after the Civil War
GLC02673.02
16 March 1852
[Pencil sketch. Man on boulders]
GLC02673.03
24 August 1853
[Pencil and watercolor. Scenic]
GLC02673.04
16 May 1861
[Pencil and watercolor. House]
incompletely colored. Not clearly a Civil War related piece
GLC02673.05
[Pencil sketch. Green Room in the White House]
colors of room noted in margin. Apparently a study for a Presidential print or painting; possibly JBB's Lincoln painting
GLC02673.06
17 August 1874
[Pencil and ink wash. Glen Onoko]
GLC02673.07
no date August 1874
[Pencil and ink wash. Eagle Cliff]
GLC02673.08
18 August 1874
[Pencil and ink wash. Catawissa Railroad]
Railroad bridge in mountainous terrain
GLC02673.09
[Pencil and ink wash. Twin Bridge. Catawissa Railroad]
signed
GLC02673.10
26 August 1874
[Pencil and ink. Lake View Hotel]
The hotel building and carriages are cut and pasted from a comtemporary print; JBB has supplied the background. Signed
GLC02673.11
[Water color. Hotel on Seneca Lake]
Water color on tissue-backed paper.
GLC02673.12
[Pencil and ink. Seneca Lake]
GLC02673.13
28 August 1874
[Pencil and ink. Pavilion Hotel]
GLC02673.14
[Pencil and ink. Pavilion Hotel in the distance]
note on verso: "Do not charge Mr. Bacthelder [sic] my Hotel Bill. J.W.G."
GLC02673.15
16 August 1875
[Pencil and ink wash. Mauchunk Pennsylvania from Booth Mountain]
GLC02673.16
no date 1876
[Autograph notes concerning a model, possibly seen at the Centennial Fair, 1876, and probably intended to guide a model he was making.]
Plan of the movements and battles of the Spanish Forces against the Moors in Moroco [sic] during 1859-60.... JBB's large panoramic Gettysburg prints are copyright 1877.
GLC02673.17
[notes on terra cotta fountain of two children]
One of the most charming designs in the Exhibition is the fountain of Terra Cotta representing two children standing under a spread umbrella above which the jet of water plays.... Autograph note, probably ca. 1876 and accompanied by #19, upon which...
GLC02673.18
[ink and water color. Terra cotta fountain of children]
On verso is pasted-down newsclipping: "Old Abe" at the Centennial. Describing the famous war eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin, clipped from the Philadelphia Times.
GLC02673.19
19 August 1893
[watercolor. Marsh Creek]
Hoffman's Dam. Shows a fisherman
GLC02673.20
[pencil. Man on foot bridge]
Dr. P. D. Keiser. Showing man on foot bridge. Another figure facing this one has been erased.
GLC02673.21
[brown and blue wash on textured paper. Panorama of mountain and forest scene]
GLC02673.22
[watercolor. Two horizons with house]
GLC02673.23
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