Popular Subjects Prints
Scope and Contents
This collection contains mass-produced prints that have some social or cultural interest. Included in this category are historical prints for popular audiences, caricature prints from newspapers or one-offs, and military diagrams that seem like they were cartoons. These prints do not fall into any clear scientific or art historical categories. They are representative of the popular and wide-reaching aspects of print culture in the 19th century.
Dates
- Creation: Undated
Creator
- Adelman, Seymour, 1906-1985 (Person)
Limitations on Accessing the Collection
This collection is open for research. Records containing personal or confidential student information may be used subject to the discretion of the president of the college.
Copyright and Rights Information
The Popular Subjects Prints collection is the physical property of the Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library.
Biographical / Historical
Seymour Adelman was a Philadelphia based collector of prints, letters, and ephemera. Although he worked in real-estate – a family business – he is most well known for his extensive collecting habits. Adelman has no direct relation to Bryn Mawr, but was invited to visit by James Tanis, the director Canaday Library. The then newly build library offered Adelman an office and a space to house his collection, and this formed the relationship between Bryn Mawr College and Adelman.
Adelman’s extensive collection contained material on Thomas Eakins, John Keats, Claude Lovat Fraser, and Laurence Hausman, as well as a large collection of letters. In addition to this work, Adelman also collected fine art prints, material related to the history of the book and publishing, and architectural history, among other interests. Most of this collection of mass-produced and popular culture prints was originally part of Adelman’s collection of historical prints.
Extent
1 Linear Feet
Language
English
Overview
This collection contains mass-produced prints that have some social or cultural interest. Included in this category are historical prints for popular audiences, caricature prints from newspapers or one-offs, and military prints that were maybe cartoons. These prints do not fall into any clear scientific or art historical categories. They are representative of the popular and wide-reaching aspects of print culture in the 19th century.
- Title
- Popular Subjects Prints
- Author
- Elliot Krasnopoler
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Find It at the Library
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