The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE  19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:          [unknown]                               

Title:               Portrait authors: an amusing and instructive pastime containing 32 fine portraits of eminent authors

Dates:             1873

Call No.:         Doc. 89

Acc. No.:         80x120

Quantity:        1 box

Location:        31 A

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

It is not known who published this game.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

An educational card game in which the players try to assemble groups of cards containing lithographed portraits and printed biographical sketches of thirty-two 19th century authors, most of whom were American.  The color lithographed cover contains the note that the game was "patented Sep. 2, 1873," and has the initials "E.I.H." in a lozenge as the only indication of possible publisher.               

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

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

           

 

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Leona Rostenberg.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Card games.

            Authors, American - Biography.

Authors, American – Portraits.

            Authors, English - Biography.

Authors, English – Portraits.

Games.

Lithographs.

Playing cards.

Authors.

Biographers.

Humorists.

Poets.

Journalists.

Historians.

 

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 31 A

 

 


 

Index to pictures and biographical sketches on cards in Doc. 89 (acc. 80x120.1-.65)

 

Abbott, John S. C.    .1, .33

Adams, William T.    .29, .61

Alger, Horatio, Jr.   .17, .49

Arthur, T. S.      .18, .50

 

Bailey, J. M.       .9, .41

Bancroft, George    .5, .37

Beecher, Henry Ward     .19, .51

Bennett, James Gordon     .13, .45

"Billings, Josh"    .10, .42

 

Clemens, Samuel L.        .11, .43

Collins, William Wilkie   .21, .53

Curtis, George William   .14, .46

 

Danbury New Man    .10

Dickens, Charles   .22, .54

 

Eggleston, Edward  .30, .62

 

Greeley, Horace    .15, .47

 

Hale, Edward Everett      .20, .52

Hawthorne, Nathaniel      .23, .55

Higginson, Thomas W.      .31, .63

Holmes, Oliver Wendell      .25, .57

 

Irving, Washington     .2. .34

 

"Josh Billings"    .10, .42

 

Locke, David Ross       .12, .44

Longfellow, Henry   W.    .26, .58

Lowell, James Russell     .27, .59

 

Motley, John Lothrop      .6, .38

 

"Nasby, Petroleum V."    .12, .44

 

"Oliver Optic"            .29, .61

 

Palfrey, John G.     .7, .39

Parton, James     .3, .35

"Petroleum V. Nasby"    .12, .44

Prescott, William H.   .8, .40

 

Raymond, Henry J.    .16, .48

 

Shaw, Henry W.    .10, .42

Sparks, Jared      .4, .36

 

Thackeray, William M.     .24, .56

Trowbridge, John T.       .32, .64

 

Whittier, John Greenleaf .28, .60