Adelman, Seymour, 1906-1985

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This is a collection of portraits on paper. Most of this collection is portraits of specific artists and writers, but there are also some unidentified drawings and caricatures. The collection contains lithographs, intaglio prints (mostly engravings), and a few drawings. See folder descriptions for more details.

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This is a collection of miscellaneous scientific prints, including ornithological, botanical, and conchology prints. Most of this material was collected by Seymour Adelman. For a detailed breakdown of the collection’s materials, see the “Collection Organization” tab. And, for further resources on this type of material, please also search for botanical books in Bryn Mawr College’s Rare Books, and for individual prints in the Tri-College collection of Art and Artifacts.

Scope and Contents Seymour Adelman was an enthusiastic collector with wide-ranging interests. His incredibly generous donations to the Library brought us important collections of A.E. Housman, Laurence Housman, Ralph Hodgson, Claud Lovat Fraser, and Thomas and Susan Eakins documents and ephemera, as well as a striking collection of boxiana. The Letters and Documents Collection represents additional interests, spanning the late 18th to the mid-20th centuries. The major components of this collections are 19th...

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This collection contains works created by or directly related to Seymour Adelman. In addition to being an avid collector, he was also an amateur illustrator and amateur print-maker.

Also contained here is a book describing Adelman's collection of art and objects. This book might be helpful in researching the objects in other collections and in the Art and Artifact Collection