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Warren Delano collection of Chinese export paintings of fruits, flowers, and vegetables

Collection Identifier: arn00018
Scope and Contents: The collection consists of Chinese export paintings of fruits, flowers, and vegetables collected by Warren Delano. The paintings were likely produced in Canton, present-day Guangzhou, by various artists. There are 600 illustrations, 583 are watercolors and 17 are prints. The illustrations are from circa 1794-1852, with the bulk of the materials from 1794-1829. The collection dates were taken from watermarks.The watercolors feature several types of writing. There are notations on...

William Withers, Jr. correspondence

Collection Identifier: arn00009
Scope and Contents: The collection consists of two bound volumes of correspondence and printed material entitled, “Tracts and Letters on Planting. Authors copies of tracts bound up with the letters that he received from correspondents, the printed matter inlaid, and the whole arranged in (mostly) chronological order.” Vol. I. August 1826-November 1827 Contains correspondence to Withers and four items authored by Withers: one letter to W.M. Cobbett Esq. (printed by Holt), “Memoir on Forest Trees,”...

Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove photographs by C.E. Watkins

Collection Identifier: arn00026
Scope and Contents:

The collection is made up of twenty one mammoth plate albumen photographs with separated binding consisting of landscape views in Yosemite and Mariposa Valley, California. They were taken by Carleton E. Watkins probably between 1860-1875, and most likely bound together around 1875.