#ArchivesArt

[pogphotoarchives]

Cochiti Pueblo artist Tonita Peña (Quah Ah) at work in her studio, New Mexico

Photographer: T. Harmon Parkhurst Date: 1925 - 1945? Negative Number 073945

[todaysdocument]

Civil War letter written to his family by Private Valentine Moulder. On the back are drawings of a woman smoking a pipe, probably done between 1863 and 1883 by one of Valentine’s 9 younger siblings.

Series: Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of the Army and Navy Who Served Mainly in the Civil War and the War With Spain, 1861 - 1934

Record Group 15: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773 - 2007

Image description: Drawings in blue ink. Many faces in profile, some scribbled out; two drawings of a woman in profile (she has a prominent nose and chin), smoking a pipe, wearing a dress with a large skirt. 

Transcription of letter:

Sunday March 15th 1863

PADUCAH KENTUCKY

DEAR FATHER & FAMILY YOUR SON VALENTINE I NOW TAKE MY PEN IN HAND TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I AM WELL AT THIS TIME HOPING THESE FEW LINES MAY COME TO HAND & FIND YOU ALL WELL

Dear father I have nothing strange To write to you Times is tolerable good here it is nice weather here now The People of Paducah is putting out their guardrans the grass is springing up and looks nice 

The spring frogs is hallowing and the Birds is singing their Beautiful spring songs 

it seems like I ought be at home preparing for a crop 

This Beautiful weather turn over

[fordlibrarymuseum]

Join us in celebrating art in our collection! Manuel Carbonell presented this bronze sculpture, entitled “Bicentennial Eagle,” at the White House on June 29, 1976. Milt Mitler, coordinator of Bicentennial activities, accepted it on behalf of President Ford.

Carbonell was considered the last of the Cuban Master Sculptors of his generation. He regarded this work as a symbol of freedom and a show of gratitude to his adopted country for the Bicentennial.

This particular sculpture is the first of an artist’s edition of six cast in bronze by Carbonell. The second of the series was given to Burt Reynolds. #ArchivesArt

[steamship-historical-society]

George G. Sharp, Inc. ,a marine design and naval architecture firm, was established in 1920 in New York City by George Gillies Sharp, former Chief Surveyor of the American Bureau of Shipping. The firm began designing excursion steamboats on the Delaware and Hudson rivers, eventually moving onto oceangoing passenger and cargo shipping designing including the Nuclear Ship Savannah. We have some beautiful pieces from the firm in our collection. Visit sshsa.pastperfectonline.com and keyword search "George Sharp" to see more. If you have any information about the images you see, please email info@sshsa.org as we hope to add more detailed descriptions to the collection. Image: Painting illustrating a design for the interior of a stateroom aboard an unidentified Alcoa Steamship Company vessel. Room features twin beds with pink blankets, and a glass panel divider separating a sitting area. From the George G. Sharp Collection, SSHSA Archives. #ArchivesArt #ArchivesHashtagParty (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVSyae7gcd3/?utm_medium=tumblr