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Bowdoin College portraits engraving plates

 Collection
Identifier: M369

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Scope and Contents

The Bowdoin College portraits engraving plates are arranged alphabetically by last name and encompass Bowdoin College graduates and professors from the nineteenth century. They include the portraits of John Abbott and William Allen as well as Parker Cleaveland and William Pitt Fessenden.

Dates

  • Creation: 1806 - 1879

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions.

Biographical / Historical

The History of Bowdoin College: With Biographical Sketches of Its Graduates from 1806 to 1879, Inclusive (1882), by Nehemiah Cleaveland and Alpheus S. Packard, provides encyclopedic biographical sketches of Bowdoin presidents and graduates for most of the nineteenth century, along with engraved portraits for many of them. This collection includes the engraving plates of many of these portraits. Much of the engravings were created by John Chester Buttre for the Bowdoin Memorial.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (4 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Engraving plates of portraits of graduates and professors of Bowdoin College that were included in “History of Bowdoin College with Biographical Sketches of its Graduates” by Nehemiah Cleaveland and Alpheus Spring Packard.

Related Materials

Cleaveland, N. (Nehemiah), & Packard, A. S. (Alpheus S. (1882). History of Bowdoin College : with biographical sketches of its graduates from 1806 to 1879, inclusive. J. R. Osgood & Co.

Nehemiah Cleaveland Papers M033

Alpheus Spring Packard Papers M142

Separated Materials

One engraving plate of a Bowdoin campus scene and one glass plate negative of Merepoint were removed from the collection.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Bowdoin College portraits engraving plates
Status
Completed
Author
Emma Barton-Norris
Date
2024
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 Repository

http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/index.shtml
Contact:
3000 College Station
Brunswick Maine 04011 USA
(207) 725-3288

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