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Hinchman, Walter

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1845 - 1920

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Walter Hinchman papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-094
Overview

This collection is comprised of the papers of Walter Hinchman, including biographical manuscripts, correspondence, and drawings.

Dates: 1879-1917

Walter Hinchman portfolio

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-04-019
Overview

Walter Hinchman's portfolio of sketches and photographs includes the many of the plates used in his book, “Sketches & Poems.” The sketches were done during Hinchman’s time at a machine shop in Ohio at the end of the Civil War and on a survey trip (1867-1868) for a transcontinental railway from Kansas to California. There are sketches of the Pennsylvania Steel Company (1869), animals, flowers, trees, people, and landscapes.

Dates: 1867-1873

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Subject
Quakers -- Travel 1
Railroads -- Pictorial works 1
West (U.S.) 1
correspondence 1
letters (correspondence) 1