Richard Townley Haines Halsey Papers Col

The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Delaware 19735

Telephone: 302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Halsey, R. T. Haines (Richard Townley Haines), 1865-1942.

Title: Research Papers

Dates: 1868-1942, bulk dates 1901-1942

Call No.: Col. 56

Acc. No.: 75x80

Quantity: 20 boxes (7 cu. ft.)

Location: 16 D 1-3 and 5

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

R.T. Haines Halsey (1865-1942) was a collector of decorative arts and a founder of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. The son of Frances E. Haines and William F. Halsey, he was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, raised in Louisiana, attended St. Paul’s School, and graduated from Princeton University in 1886. He worked on the New York Stock Exchange from 1899 to 1923, at which time he retired in order to devote time to the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum. He was a trustee and chairman of the committee on American Decorative Arts at the museum and was instrumental in opening the American Wing. For this work, he was elected an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. He was also vice president of the art commission for the City of New York. He wrote many articles linking American history with decorative arts and was an avid collector of Americana.

Halsey was a member of the Walpole Society and the Grolier Club. In 1914, he received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Columbia University. In 1925, he served on a committee to redecorate the White House. From 1928-1932, he led a class at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, which entwined political and social history with American art and decorative arts. In the 1930s, he became a research assistant in the Stirling Library at Yale University, primarily working with its Mason collection of Frankliniana and studying early American political cartoons. He was hit by a car in January 1942, and died in February from a heart attack. The names of his first two wives are unknown; at least one of them shared her husband’s enthusiasm in collecting American decorative arts. Halsey’s third and last wife was Elizabeth Tower (1904-1976), who survived him, as did two daughters.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The papers consist of research material used in Halsey’s many speeches and articles on architecture and decorative arts. Architectural photographs, note cards, pamphlets, object photos, and some correspondence are also included. The many subjects ranged from furniture styles, political cartoons, craftsmen, and Annapolis, Maryland, to George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, prints and architecture, to name only a few. Several of the speeches relate to social and cultural life in the colonies. William Buckland's architectural endeavors are recorded. Of particular note are Ernest Hagen's notes on Duncan Phyfe and other cabinetmakers, given to Halsey by Walter Dyer. Also included are photographs of Whitehall, an 18^th century estate in Maryland, taken before its restoration. Also of note are the letters from Frederick Rathbone of London to Halsey. Rathbone assisted Halsey with his collection of Wedgwood portrait medallions. A scrapbook contains a good many clippings pertaining to Shreve, Crump & Low of Boston, including a trade card for Shreve, Brown & Co. (an earlier name for the business) and two circa 1873 stereocards, one of which depicts the interior of the store. A recipe book which belonged to Mary Eustis Wister (Mrs. William Rotch Wister) is part of the collection as well; it was begun in 1868.

ORGANIZATION

A name index to the collection and a separate index to the memoirs of Ernest Hagen (found in Box 2) are appended to this finding aid.

RELATED MATERIALS

Books by Halsey are available in the Printed Books and Periodicals section of the Winterthur Library.

The Walpole Society Note Book for 1942 has an article about Halsey. A copy of this publication is in the Downs Collection, Col. 386.

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

The materials are in English.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.

PROVENANCE

Gift of Mrs. R. T. H. Halsey.

ACCESS POINTS

People:

Buckland, William, 1734-1774.

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Hagen, Ernest F., 1830-1913.

Phyfe, Duncan, 1768-1854.

Rathbone, Frederick.

Washington, George, 1732-1799.

Wister, Mary Eustis (Mrs. William Rotch).

Topics:

Homewood House Museum (Johns Hopkins University)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Shreve, Crump & Low Co.

Antiques - United States.

Architecture.

Architecture, Colonial - United States.

Artisans.

Ceramics.

Children – Photographs.

Cooking, American – Manuscripts.

Furniture - United States.

Knitting - Patterns.

Political cartoons.

Silver - United States.

Store decoration.

Stores, Retail - Massachusetts - Boston.

Stores, Retail - Photographs.

Wedgwood ware.

Women - History - 18th century.

Annapolis (Md.) – Buildings, structures, etc.

Annapolis (Md.) - Social life and customs.

United States - Social life and customs.

United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Virginia – Buildings, structures, etc. – Photographs.

Whitehall (Md. : Estate)Correspondence.

Notes.

Photographic negatives.

Photographic prints.

Speeches.

Recipes.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Location: 16 D 1-3 and 5

Note: all accession numbers begin with 75x80. The accession numbers were assigned to groups of papers or photos, not to each individual item in a group.

Box 1: Speeches, talks (note: a number of these are from Halsey’s time at St. John’s College)

[note: legal size speeches are found in box 4]

Folder 1: Speech: American Furniture Style (.1; Republican Club)

Folder 2: Speech: American Style in Architecture & Furnishings (.2, .5; includes a slide list)

Folder 3: Speech for opening of American Wing (.3)

Folder 4: Speech: American Wing and its Character and Purpose (.4)

Folder 5: Speech: Annapolis Architecture & Culture (.6)

Folder 6: Speech: Annapolis & George Washington (.7)

Folder 7: Speech: Annapolis Homes (.8)

Folder 8: Lecture: Annapolis History & Architecture (.9; Columbian Library Association)

Folder 9: Speech: Annapolis in the 18th century (.10; Southern Maryland Society)

Folder 10: Speech: Cartoons in English newspapers with Pro-American Sentiment (Revolutionary War period) (.11; see also .12 in box 4)

Folder 11: Radio address: Character & nature of “Colonial Art” (.13)

Folder 12: Lecture: Charles Carroll & Value of Education (.14; Johns Hopkins University)

Folder 13: Colonial art, speech for Preservation of Maryland Homes (.15; Baltimore museum)

Folder 14: Speech: Colonial Women in politics (.16)

Folder 15: Speech & notes: English Architectural Books & their influences in America (.17)

Folder 16: Speech: Government & Culture in Maryland (.19)

Folder 17: Speech: “Homewood” lecture (.20; probably Johns Hopkins University)

Folder 18: Speech: Lafayette exhibition (.21)

Folder 19: Speech: Literature in Annapolis, 18th century (.22)

Folder 20: Speech: Printed cottons & linens in use in America (.23)

Folder 21: Speech: Social & cultural life in 18th c. Maryland (.25; University Club)

Folder 22: Social life in Annapolis - Eddis letter (.26)

Folder 23: Speech: Washington & education (.27; Andover school)

Folder 24: Speech: George Washington & the humanities (.28)

Folder 25: Speech: Washington Print Collection (.29)

Folder 26: Speech: Wedgwood & his American sympathies (.30)

Folder 27: Speech: William Buckland & his works [.31-.32; see also .34, in Box 6]

Box 2: (chiefly pamphlets and research notes)

[Note: legal size research notes are found in box 4]

Folders 1-2: Hagen, Ernest: Duncan Phyfe memoranda, original plus photocopy (.36; see also typescript -.38) (index available – appended to this finding aid) [see also research notes in box 4]

Folder 3-4: Hagen, Ernest: New York cabinetmakers, 2d half 19th c., original plus photocopy (.37)

Folder 5: Pamphlet: Library of Congress: exhibition of prints from Mabel Brady Garvan collection at Yale University (.72)

Folder 6: Pamphlet: R.T.H. Halsey: “Ceramic Americana of the 18^th Century: part one,” by Halsey, pages 85-98 from Art in America, no date [.304]

[see Also lecture on same subject, .303]

Folder 7: Pamphlet: R.T.H. Halsey: “Malbone & his Miniatures,” article from unknown magazine (.67)

Folder 8: Pamphlet: Hamlin, Talbot Faulkner: “Casanova - and some others - at the Avery,” from Columbia University Quarterly, March 1936. ( 63)

Folder 9: Pamphlet: "La Fayette Exhibition," held 1916, with foreword by Halsey (printed on front cover: Charles of London) (.66)

Folder 10: Pamphlet: Magruder, P. H. “The Colonial Government House of Maryland,” United States Naval Institute Proceedings, October 1935 (.64)

Folder 11: Pamphlet: The Monograph Series: (.68a-c):

no. 3, vol. XVI, Connor, Harry R. “Gunston Hall”;

no. 4, vol. XV, Desmond, Effingham C. “A Pre-Revolutionary Annapolis House – part one: Designed by Matthew Buckland for Matthias Hammond, Esq.” (2 copies)

Folder 12: Pamphlet: Morgan, John Hill. “Memento Mori: Mourning Rings, Memorial Miniatures, and Hair Devices,” from The Magazine Antiques, March 1930 (.69)

Folder 13: Pamphlets by Rodney H. True: (1916-1936) (.73a-c):

“Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book,”

“Thomas Jefferson in Relation to Botany,” and

“Some Neglected Botanical Results of the Lewis and Clark Expedition”

Folder 14: Pamphlets about Wedgwood: [.300-.301]:

“The Tangye Collection of Old Wedgwood: (London: F. Rathbone, 1885) (.300);

“Loan Exhibition of Selected Pieces of Old Wedgwood…” (Burslem: Dawson, 1895) (.301);

Church, A. H. “Josiah Wedgwood: Master-Potter” (London: Seeley & Co., 1894) (.302)

Folder 15: Research notes: American silver & notes on silversmiths (.46); and

Notes on Forbes family and I.W. Forbes (see p. 23 of catalog of exhibition of silver at Metropolitan Museum) (.57)

Folder 16: Research notes: Architectural notes (.49)

Folder 17: Research notes: Boucher, Jonathan (.33, .43):

Jonathan Boucher & Wm. Eddis (.33) and

References to Boucher from Washington diary (.43)

Folder 18: Research notes: Cartoons: (.54, .56, .61, .191) [see also .52 in box 4; and see lectures about cartoons, .11-.12]

notes about a plate [or cartoon] in Westminster Magazine, 1774 (.54);

“Cartoon 5” [Edenton tea party] (.56);

notes from Kentish Gazette, 1775, about a Sons of Liberty cartoon (.61); and

photostat of cartoon: “Yankee Doodle’s Intrenchments [sic] near Boston, 1776,” .191

Folder 19: Research notes: Benjamin Franklin (.55, .59):

typescript: “Botanists Franklin Knew” (.55)

typescript: “Wordsworth on Benjamin Franklin” (.59)

Folder 20: Research notes: Greengold, D. B. “Development of Music in America, ca.1700-1800,” 1932 (.78)

Folder 21: Research notes: Charles Willson Peale information, Maryland records, 1764-1765 (.39)

Folder 22: Research notes: Textiles: “camlet” (.48)

Folder 23: research notes: Washington, George (.41, .42, .44, .60, .70):

Col. Augustus Washington estate inventory (.41);

Prints of George Washington (.42);

inventory of prints owned by Washington (.44);

Washington event handkerchief (.60);

Mt. Vernon (article from New York Times, 1938) (.70)

Folder 24: Research notes: Wedgwood notes (.47)

(see also unnumbered pamphlets about Wedgwood in folder 14 above)

Folder 25: Research notes: Miscellaneous research notes #6 (.75)

Folder 26: Research notes: Miscellaneous research notes #9 (.77)

Box 3: (correspondence and other files) (legal size files)

[note: a few additional letters are found in 75x80.160]

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1852 (not to Halsey), 1901-1939 (.163, .165-.170; but only part of .169)

Correspondents:

Aunt Mollie;

R.A. Abrams;

Bernard Quaritch Ltd.;

Richard [illegible] (Columbia University);

Margaret Harrington Daniels (Metropolitan Museum of Art);

E. Donnell(?) (Metropolitan Museum of Art);

George Francis Dow SPNEA);

Charles P. Gorely, Jr. (Wedgwood Club);

Marie Louise Ivy;

J.O. Wright & Co.;

Charles F. McCombs (New York Public Library);

S. Ruskin (Newhouse Galleries, with enclosed photo);

Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles;

Henry Upham (Boston, 1852, not addressed to Halsey but to a Haines relative);

Charles C. Wall (Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association);

Thomas T. Waterman;

James Clements Wheat;

Theodore S. Woolsey

Folder 2: Correspondence: Cook, John (Etruria Museum, Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.) (part of .169)

Folder 3-5: Correspondence: Rathbone, Frederick, 1900-1910, and circa 1838 ( .164, and part of .169), includes letters, bills, and sketches of portrait medallions

[see also photos .123-.125]

[for transcriptions of these letters, see Ars Ceramica, volumes 21, 22, and 24 (2005, 2006, 2008)

Folder 6: Metropolitan Museum of Art: prints (.178-.179):

American Wing Interiors, color plates, ca.1924-1949 (.178);

Wood engravings of The Cloisters by Rudolph Ruzicka, 1938 (.179)

Folder 7: Postcards (.174-.175):

Gunston Hall (.174);

West Overton, Penn., and Deerfield, Mass. (.175)

Folder 8: Book catalogs (Dulau & Co.; Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles) (.181-.182)

Folder 9: Books on loan to Princeton from Halsey, n.d. (.184)

Folder 10: Eagles (from New York Times, 1941) (.177)

Folder 11: Lind, Jenny: concert ticket, 1851; reproduction of part of program from one of her performances, 1850 (.171)

Folder 12: Revere bookplates (20^th century) (.173)

Folder 13: University Prints: reproductions of paintings (.180)

Folder 14: Walpole Society (.71, .176)

pamphlets: visits to Newport & Old Quinabaug Village (Sturbridge, Mass.) by Walpole Society (.71)

Place card, Feb. 20, 1937 (.176)

Folder 15: Recipes & knitting directions (.185) [recipes are included in the Access recipe database]

Includes recipe book of Mary Eustis Wister (Mrs. William Rotch Wister) of Philadelphia, 1868; these Wisters seem to have been related to the Haines family; the recipe book also includes photos of children

Box 4: (speeches/lectures, research notes, photographs) (legal size files)

Folder 1: Lecture: Cartoons (.12) [see also .11 in Box 1 and research notes on cartoons]

Folder 2: Speech: export porcelain, “Sino Lowestoft” ( .18)

Folder 3: Lecture: “Self Education of Franklin, Washington & Jefferson” (Brookville School, Oyster Bay, N.Y., 1935) (.24)

Folder 4: Lecture: on Ceramic Americana [.303]

[See also pamphlet on same subject, .304]

Folder 5: pamphlet: Morgan, John Hill: “The Frossard Collection of Drawings attributed to John Trumbull,” (from The Magazine Antiques, Feb. 1941) (.65)

Folder 6: Research notes: Battle of the Marks, “Annapolis Gazette” (.50)

Folder 7: Research notes: William Buckland inventory, 1774, and other notes on Buckland (.34)

Folder 8: Research notes: Charles Carroll (.35)

Folder 9: Research notes: Notebook on Duncan Phyfe by Ernest Hagen (.38)

[see also Hagen’s notebooks in box 2]

Folder 10: Typescript: Rigbie, James: estate, 1790, Harford County (.40)

Folder 11: Typescript: Woodward, Henry: notice of the vendue of his estate, Annapolis, n.d. (but prices in pounds sterling), notice issued by Mary Woodward (.45)

Folder 12: Research notes: Bentley’s reviews of books in the Bodleian Library (.51)

Folder 13: Research notes: material for cartoon lecture (.52)

[additional research notes on cartoons are in box 2; see also lectures on cartoons]

Folder 14: Research notes: Maryland Gazette (.58)

Folder 15: Research notes: Maryland Gazette; inventory of Robert Eden, 1776; Henry Crouch (.62)

Folders 16-17: Miscellaneous research notes #1, #8 (.74, .76)

Folder 18: research notes on Samuel Chase, John Brice of Annapolis, Thomas Jenings [or Jennings] (ca.1736-1796) of Annapolis, list of Annapolis wills [these have no number], and also a Photostat of Pennsylvania Gazette, Dec. 20, 1777 (.189)

Folder 19: Photos and prints: portrait medallions: American subjects (.132)

Also includes some British subjects and a few busts

Box 5:

Folder 1: Photos and negatives: American furniture (mostly unlabeled) (.93)

Folders 2-3: Photos and negatives: American paintings (mostly portraits, many identified) (.94-.95)

Folder 4: Photos: American Wing interiors (mostly identified) (.96)

Folders 5-9: Photos: unidentified architecture, part 1, I, IV-VI: interiors and exteriors, mostly 18^th century, early 19^th century buildings (.97-.101)

.97: includes Mount Pleasant in Philadelphia, the George Read house and the old courthouse in New Castle, Delaware;

.98: includes Mount Pleasant in Philadelphia, buildings in New Castle, Del.;

.99: includes Montpelier and University of Virginia;

.101: includes Wren building at College of William and Mary, Bruton Parish Church, Mount Vernon, Bacon’s Castle

Box 6:

Folders 1-2: Photos: unidentified architecture, VII-VIII: interiors and exteriors, mostly 18^th century, early 19^th century buildings; (.102-.103)

.102: includes Shirley Plantation, Mount Vernon, Bacon’s Castle, Wren building at College of William and Mary;

.103: includes Williamsburg, Colonial Williamsburg, College of William and Mary

Folder 3: Photos: Baltimore architecture & furniture (note identified, photographer from Baltimore) (.104)

Folder 4: Photos: exterior & interior architecture, 18^th century, mostly unidentified (.105)

Includes Hammond-Harwood house, Chase house, and other photos by an Annapolis photographer

Folder 5: Photos: various subjects (.106)

Includes the Alhambra (Spain), Spanish furniture, a Peruvian textile, the Giralda (Seville), an inscription from the back of a portrait, and an classical Greek bas relief

Folder 6: Photo: Chippendale sofa (.107) and

Empire sofa.112

Folder 7: Photos of title pages of various 18^th century English architectural design books (.108)

Folder 8: Photo: Joseph Barrell's house (near Boston) (.109)

Also: photo of Copley’s portrait of Joseph Barrell (no accession number, but came with acc. 56x6.1)

Folder 9: Negatives: Dutch architecture, rare curufen (.110),

Photo: drawing of a building, possibly Dutch (.111)

Folder 10: Photo: drawing of Garden building at Wilton House, 18th c. (.113)

Caption on drawing: “The water-house in the park, design’d by Henry Lord Herbert, afterwards Earl of Pembroke

Folders 11-12: Photos and negatives: engravings .114

Box 7:

Folder 1; Photos: export porcelain (.115)

Folder 2: Photos: architectural interiors, exteriors (.116)

Mostly details of interior woodwork

Folder 3: Negatives: plan for flower bed at Mt. Vernon (page in a book) (.117)

Folder 4: Photos: American furniture, unidentified (.118)

Includes photo of store window for Hutzler Brothers Co., honoring Charles Carroll (last surviving signer of Declaration of Independence), 1932

Folder 5: Photos: “Homewood”: Interiors (.120)

Includes a pamphlet about a furniture show at Homewood, ca. 1928, and a letter which accompanied the pamphlet

Folder 6: Photos and negatives: Lee Mansion [Stratford Hall] before & after restoration (.122)

Folders 7-9: Photos: medallions (some Wedgwood) (.123-.125)

[see also correspondence from Frederick Rathbone]

Folders 10-11: Photos: miscellaneous architectural views, exteriors and interiors, some identified (2 folders) (.126)

Includes Mount Vernon, Wilder mansion (Bolton, Mass.), homes in Andover and North Andover, Mass., Pohick Church, St. Luke’s Church, Whitehall, Carter’s Grove; also includes some plates from architecture books

Folder 12: Photos: some of which were possibly Mr. Halsey's house (.127)

Includes a glass plate negative

Folder 13; Photos from Mt. Vernon Ladies Association, 1941 (.128)

Folder 14: Photo: plan and elevation of New York City Hall, built 1745-1747, drawing done in 1818 (.129)

Folder 15: Photos: people, buildings, Walpole Society (.130)

Folder 16: Photo: “Pitt & Liberty” (pottery piece?) (.131)

Folder 17: Photos: silver (.133)

Folder 18: Photos: silver and metals (.134)

Includes photos of printed desings

Box 8:

Folder 1: Photo: Empire silver tea set (.136)

Folder 2: Photos: textiles, printed cottons (.137)

[these photos are marked as being from Metropolitan Museum of Art]

Folder 3: Photos: “Whitehall” (.138)

[estate in Maryland; see also Col. 205 at this repository]

Folder 4: Photos and negatives: Williamsburg (.139)

Interiors and exteriors, includes garden of Governor’s Palace, Wren Building, etc.

Folder 5: Photos and negatives: Williamsburg, 1933; miscellaneous architecture III (.140)

Two photos are not of Williamsburg

Folder 6; Photos: Williamsburg, and pictures of Dutch buildings Halsey collected as prototypes of Williamsburg buildings (.141)

Folder 7: Negatives: architectural exteriors [Williamsburg and Dutch buildings] (.143)

Folder 8: Negatives: title pages and plates from architectural books (.144)

Folder 9: Negatives: plates from architectural design books (.145)

[includes views of buildings in and near Boston, Mass.]

Box 9:

Folder 1: Negatives: Baltimore (.146)

In fact, these negatives have nothing to do with Baltimore, but are copies of various prints, including prints of George Washington, La Fayette, General Wolfe, Benjamin Franklin, Constantine’s Arch, and historical and mythological pictures

Folder 2: Negatives: Barre, etc.; Hover(?) 3 vol.; church in Paris, homes in England, etc. (.147)

Folder 3: Negatives: Dutch architecture (.148)

Folder 4: Negatives: English landscapes (.149)

[July 2013: folder was empty]

Folder 5: Negatives: Gibbs: architecture (.150)

Folder 6: Photos: prints from series of “The Hunt” engraved by Boydell (.151)

Folder 7: Negative: print of Le Bon Homme Richard (.152)

Folder 8: Negatives: Michel drawing of College of William and Mary; 2 prints by P. Vingboons, and other Dutch drawings (.153)

Folder 9: Negatives: miscellaneous architecture (exteriors, interiors, furniture) and gravestones (.154)

Folder 10: Negative: Marquis of Rockingham [portrait] (.155)

Folder 11: Negative: TGS towers [i.e. steeples?] (.156)

Folder 12: Negatives: prints and cartoons (.157-.158)

Folder 13: Negatives: German print and engraving of Peter Collinson (.158)

Folder 14: Negatives: unidentified building in Arnhem, The Netherlands (.159)

Folder 15: Prints and negatives: Class of 1886 reunion (55^th) photo, 1941 (Princeton University; Halsey is not in the photo) (.183);

Group of Staffordshire figures and pottery;

Roll of negatives: 18^th century political cartoons

Box 10:

Folders 1-3: Photos, etc. from scrapbook #15: miniatures, silver, interiors, Duncan Phyfe furniture, some correspondence, etc. (.160)

Folder 1: many photos of silver; includes letter from Louise (Mrs. S.C.) Amidon (1947);

Folder 2: includes letters from Mrs. Paul H. Hardy (1930), William Sumner Appleton (SPNEA, 1928); also furniture, old kitchen, engraved portraits, portrait medallions, Stratford Hall (exterior and interior), etc.;

Folder 3: includes interiors, portrait medallions, exhibit of Phyfe furniture at Metropolitan Museum, miniatures, silver, etc.

Folder 4: Scrapbook #16: “Clippings - Antiques, etc.,” ca.1918-ca.1942 (.161)

Front cover missing; most clippings are from Boston newspapers; also includes a trade card for Shreve, Brown & Co. of Boston (1857-1860); two stereocards issued by Shreve, Crump & Low, one showing their building after a fire in November 1872, and the other showing their new silverware department (as rebuilt after the fire); a circa 1942 request from Shreve, Crump & Low to its customers requesting that they help the company conserve its tires; a photograph of men in a silver store, undoubtedly partners in Shreve, Crump & Low

Box 11:

Folder 1: Photo album: scrapbook #17: “St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland, and It’s [sic] Environment of American History and Art,” photos of buildings in Annapolis, Maryland (.162)

The photos are not in original order. Some are identified. Includes photo of Whitehall, outside of Annapolis.

Box 12: (oversize box)

Folder 1: Photos: “European houses, architectural views” (.119)

Although these photos were removed from a container labeled European houses, in fact, this folder includes views of Gunston Hall, and one photo is labeled as having been taken in Annapolis; the buildings are unidentified, but most of them look American, not European; includes a photo of William Buckland’s indenture of servitude to Thomson Mason ; also includes photos of pages from architecture and building pattern books

Folder 2: Photos: “Annapolis interiors” (.121)

Includes Homewood, Harwood House exterior and interior, and west parlor of Mount Vernon

Folder 3: Photos: tankards: ceramic & silver (.135)

Folder 4: Photos: wallpaper: “Views of Annapolis,” 1794 (.142)

Folder 5: Engraving: depiction and explanation [in French] of medal struck by J.B. Bradel for Americans, 1782, addressed to Benjamin Franklin (.172)

Folder 6: Title pages for first volume and volume II of [Mary] Darly's Comic Prints of Characters, Caricatures, Macaronies, &c., 1776, 1779 (.186a-b)

Folder 7: printed copy of Thomas Jefferson's letter to Gov. Monroe, Feb. 28, 1802; mentions a letter from du Pont de Nemours about a bust of Benjamin Franklin; also copy of a note from
General Montgomery to Colonel Clinton, written after a capitulation, no date (.187)

Folder 8: Photostats of two pieces of music written in honor of Lafayette, 1824, one being “La Fayette’s Welcome,” by A. Clifton, and the other “Genl. La Fayette’s Grand March and Quickstep,” by C. Meineke (.188)

Folder 9: Photostat: Plan of Annapolis harbor, 1781 (.190a-b)

Folder 10: Photostat: Plate from Pergolesi showing a wall, with decoration, furniture, window treatment, London, 1792 (.192a-b)

Folder 11: Photostat: Descendants of Richard de Clevant (one descendant married Victor Marie du Pont), printed 1910; also some Civil War couplets, one of which mentions Dupont gunpowder (.193)

Folder 12: Photostats of prints (18^th century political cartoons, mostly pertaining to American Revolution) sent to British Museum (.194)

Folder 13: Photostats: various pages from Boston Gazette, 1762; Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser, 1763; Boston Newsletter, 1760, 1762 (.195)

Folder 14: Photos and photstats: “Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante”; cartoon from “The Closet,” 1778; Dutch buildings; letter from Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Adams, printed in an English newspaper (.196)

Boxes 13-21: notecards [.53, .80-.92]

[note: some of the notecards may pertain to Halsey’s collection of decorative arts]

Box 13: silversmiths and portrait medallions

Box 14: portrait medallions;

prints;

Hammond-Harwood house? (.53);

Miscellaneous notes (.80);

Miscellaneous notes [no number]

Box 15: portrait medallions and miscellaneous

Box 16: miscellaneous

Box 17: miscellaneous notes, including .81-.82; and note cards, some of which are in French [not numbered]

Boxes 18-20: miscellaneous notes