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Accession 92-140

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Administrative Office

Central Administrative Records, FY 1983-FY 1987

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Administrative Office
Title:Central Administrative Records
Dates:FY 1983-FY 1987
Quantity:1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection:Accession 92-140
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of purchase orders for works of art and other artifacts acquired by the National Portrait Gallery from FY 1983 through FY 1987.

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This accession consists largely of purchase orders for works of art and other artifacts acquired by the National Portrait Gallery from FY 1983 through FY 1987. It also includes records of other large transactions and purchases of items such as furniture and conservation equipment.

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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 92-140, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Administrative Office, Central Administrative Records

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Container List

Box 1

Purchase orders for works of art, FY 1983

Folder 1

Box 1 of 1
Meserve Collection - Final Payment, per letter dated May 10, 1983 (#B2807) signed by Hulyer C. Held, covering outstanding adjustment for the Meserve Collection of 7,250 Mathew Brady glass plate negatives and the Alexander Gardner imperial portrait print of Abraham Lincoln
To act as Project Coordinator and Editor of the Versailles Catalog and exhibition which will open at the National Portrait Gallery November 11, 1983
Henry Inman, pen and ink self-portrait
Oil on canvas portrait of Horatio Greenough by Rembrandt Peale
Oil on canvas portrait of Edith Wharton at Age 8 by Edward May; Oil on canvas portrait of Van Wyck Brooks by John Butler Yeats
Washington Irving and His Literary Friends at Sunnyside, oil on canvas, by Christian Schissele; John Frazee, plaster, self-portrait

Purchase orders for works of art, FY 1984

Folder 2

Box 1 of 1
Oil on board painting, Louis Eilshemius self-portrait
Marble bust of John Kenneth Galbraith by Joseph Erhardy
Pencil drawing, John Marin self-portrait
Bronze bust of Harry Hopkins by Reuben Nakian
Booth Tarkington, oil on canvas, by John White Alexander
Bronze bust of David Warfield by J. S. Hartley
Oil on canvas portrait of Marsden Hartley by Richard Tweedy
Collection of 10 portraits prints of Abraham Lincoln
Half-plate daguerreotype of Alfred R. Waud; Albumen c. 1866 of Alfred R. Waud; Albumen print c. 1890 of Alfred R. Waud
Bronze bust of Warren E. Burger by Walker Hancock
Print, "The issue 1900"/Bryan
Lithograph of T. M. Cleland by Rockwell Kent, lithograph of Gen. John S. Pershing by Mielziner; lithograph of Banvard by Baugniet; etching of Le Gen. Grant by Mercier
Oil on canvas portrait of John Ellis Wool by Alonzo Chappel
Self-caricature by Ralph Barton
Engraving of General Pike by Oliver Tarbell Eddy
Lithograph, Mr. Hamblin of the Theatre Royal, by D. C. Johnston; lithograph, Paul Pry and Col. Hardy, by Mr. Finn and Mr. Kilner
Albumen print, portrait of James T. Fields by Julia Margaret Cameron
Photograph of Frances Benjamin Johnston (1905); Photograph of Erie Stanley Gardner (ca. 1940-45)
Painted Limewood sculpture of Rosa Parks by Marshall D. Rumbaugh
Charcoal portrait of Calvin Coolidge by Julien Elfenstein
Oil on panel painting of Charlotte Perkins By Ellen Day Hale
Conte Crayon Self-portrait of George Bellows
Hendrick the Sachem, engraving by Dicey & Co.; Le General Zachary Taylor, lithograph by Alphe
Drypoint of John White Alexander by Learned
Silver print by Alfred Stieglitz of Anderson; photogravure by Edward Steichen of Chase; photogravure by Edward Steichen of Duncan; silver print by P. H. Polk of Carver; silver print by P. H. Polk of Handy; silver print by Dennis Stock of Dean; Albumen print by Sarony of Jefferson; silver print by Arnold Genthe of Marlowe; silver print by Doris Ulmann of Niles; Platinum print by Zaida Ben-Joseph of Pond; silver print attrib. to M. B. White of Wollcott
Oil on canvas portrait of Sadakichi Hartman by John S. Coppin
Oil on masonite portrait of Walter Gropius by Patricia Tate
Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan; Confederate Col. John Singleton Mosby
Dion Boucicault, caricature by SEM; Dion Boucicault, caricature by SPY; Mark Twain (Samuel Clements), caricature by J. A. Shephard
Vintage silver print of Alexander Calder
Engraving of Mary Baker Eddy by Haskell
Oil on panel portrait of Joseph Bradley Varnum attributed to Ezra Ames
Photograph of Mies van der Rohe by Yousuf Karsh
Oil on canvas portrait of Joel Barlow by Robert Fulton
Silver print photograph of Norman Rockville
Daguerreotype of George Steers by Gurney
50 hand gravures ('O Write My name' Collection)
Print of John Adams; Print of John Q. Adams; Martin Van Buren, print; Currier & Ives print of Zachary Taylor; lithograph of Woodrow Wilson
Lithograph of Samuel J. Bridge

Folder 3

Box 1 of 1
Lithograph of James Harper
Pencil drawing of Senator Longworth and Whiteworth and Whitelaw Reid by Edward T. Reed
Sheet Music - "Here's to you Harry Clay;" Sheet music - "In Memoriam L.M.G.;" Sheet music - "Buchanan's Union Grand March"
Rubinstein and Mitropoulos ink drawing; Leopold Stokowski ink drawing; Fats Waller Pencil drawing
Poster, #4240, Admiral Dewey by Donaldson Litho
Hitchcock print
Photograph of Roland Hayes by Dorothea Lange
Lithograph of Bill Picket (Poster) for "The Bull Dogger" Circa; lithograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt by Ben Shahn political action committee, 1944; lithograph poster of Charlie Chaplin for "Burlesque on Carmen", circa 1925
Book, Stage Folk, of caricatures by Al Frueh, Lieber and Lewis, N.Y., 1922, includes title page, cast of characters, and thirty-seven portraits
Large folio B&W engraving with portraits of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington
Poster, 3 sheet American Minstrel, Eddie Ross
Lithograph poster ofLouie Fuller by Jules Cheret
Fanny Brice Caricature by William Sharp
Lithograph, celebrated authors
Jos. Hopkinson engraving by J. Sartain
Portrait of Millard Fillmore pub. by Smith; "The Nation's guest-Lafayette" engraving by Jos. Perkins; "Edwin Forrest" Currier & Ives litho; "Franz Siegel, Major Gen." by H. Brucker; "The Hercules of the Union" lithograph; "Stephen Girard" lithograph; Thomas Nast Self-portrait Harper's Weekly Sheet; "Alexander H. Stephens" from "Puck;" WM Vanderbilt "The Public Be Damned" Puck Cartoon
Inauguration Grand March (Sheet music), President Johnson's Grand Union March (Sheet Music)
Bust, plaster, of Nathaniel Bowditch, by Robert Ball Hughes, American 1806-1868
Photograph, portrait of Peggy Guggenheim by Man Ray, 1925, silver bromide print, signed and dated in pencil on version
Portrait of Hall Johnson, (Composer) silver print photograph, by Sidney Cowell; portrait of William S. Hart, (Actor) silver print photograph, by an anonymous artist; portrait of Henry Cowell, (composer) silver print photograph, by Edward Weston
Salt print of Rev. Dr. Cox by Hill and Adamson
Photograph, James Cardinal Gibbons; photograph, Dennis Hart Mahan
Broadside, "The Union is Dissolved!;" Collection of Portraits of R. E. Lee - 19 pieces (prints & newspaper illustrations)
Print of John Tyler by Sartain
Lincoln albumen print
Bromide print by Edward Weston (Profile of an Artist II-Peter Krasnow)
Cabinet Card - James Corbett; Stephen Douglas - carte de visite; William F. Cody - Woodburytype
Wood block of Edwin Stanton receiving generals
Oil on canvas portrait of Henry C. Frick an his Daughter Helen by Edmund C. Tarbell
Chomolitho-poster by Edward Penfield of Mark Twain
Etching of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Silver print of Bill Parkinson by Carl Van Vechten; silver print of Langston Hughes by Carl Van Vechten; silver print of Kuniyoshi by Konrad Cramer
Learned Hand - photograph by Philippe Halsman
Photograph, albumen print: John Neagle; unknown photographer, photograph, albumen print: Harriet Hosmer; unknown photographer, photograph: Benjamin F. Butler; unknown photographer
Photograph, gelatin silver print Lisette Model (1949)
Graham Mezzotint of John Adams
Photograph, Jimmy Carter; photograph, Jimmy Carter (close up); photograph, Richard Daley; Warren Burger, photograph
Oil on canvas portrait of Virgil Thomson by Alice Neel
Engraving of Lafayette by Le Mire
Eadweard Muybridge, colotype print from Human and Animal Locomotion, by Muybridge
Portrait print - Warren Harding by Nuyttens
Photograph, John Steinbeck by Philippe Halsman

Purchase orders for works of art, FY 1985

Folder 4

Box 1 of 1
"Sucession Chain" Patriotics engraved envelopes #(30); engraved cartes #(13); Harper's Leslie's, Illus London news, & Southern Illus News (Single Sheets & Whole Issues) #(27); Prints, sheet music, broadsides, and photo memorabilia #(49)
Photograph, Silver print of James Agee by Walker Evans (1937) Stamp on Verso, 784.1.96
Plaster bust of Washington Irving by Robert Ball Hughes
Portrait Photograph of Edward Steichen by Heinrick Kuhn (Lot #139)
Print, Vintage Gelatin Silver of Aaron Copeland by George Platt Lynes, 15" x 14 3/4, RMG #1084.24
Signed Gelatin Silver print (Seats with JFK sign, 1956) by Robert Frank
Service fee for bidding at Riba Mobley Auction on February 23, 1985. Bidding was done on poster of Edwin Booth broadside, lot number 150
Portrait, ink drawing: Alexander Woolcott (42-08), Frank Lloyd Wright (16-17)
Poster of John Wilkes Booth, Lot 150, Obtained at auction held February 23, 1985
Self portrait lithograph by John Stewart Curry, lot 158, obtained at auction held March 6, 1985
Watercolor and pencil on paper of Chester Dale by Miguel Covarrubias, lot 128
Tintype of James butler (Wild Bill) Hickok
Portrait of George Westingtonhouse, Platinum (c.1905) by Gussford, 12 x 16
Vintage photograph, of Paul Robeson by Edward Steichen
Engraving of Alexander Wilson by J. J. Barralet
Portrait of James Farley, Vintage Silver print, c. 1933 Edward Steichen, Portrait of George Bellows, Vintage Chloride print, c. 1920 by Florence Vandamm
Oil on canvas portrait of Loammi Baldwin by Chester Harding
Photograph of Lunt and Fontanne by Nicholas Muray c. 1935
Portrait by Phillippe Halsman of Humphrey Bogart, Silver print, 1944
Portraits of Edward Everett, Salted-paper prints from calotype negative by David O. Hill and Robert Adamson, c. 1845 (lot of 20)
Portrait of Raymond Massey, silver print photo (1939) by Trude Fleischmann
Photographs by Doris Ulmann of Hamlin Garland, Abraham Jacob, Samuel Sidney McClure and Ellery Sedgwick, Lot of 4
Photographs by Doris Ulmann of George Arliss, Joseph Colt Bloodgood and Max Broedel, Lot of 3
Oil on canvas portrait of Dashiell Hammett by Edward Biberman
Portrait, Oil on canvas of Lena Home by Edward Biberman, unframed, signature lower right

Folder 5

Box 1 of 1
Authorization for William Stapp to bid at an auction on behalf of the National Portrait Gallery, November 14, 1985 on a quarter-plate daguerreotype of Mathew Brady, his wife Juliette Handy Brady, and a woman identified as Mrs. Haggerty, c. 1850
Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, (signed silver print photo), 1944 by Trude Fleischmann
Vintage photograph print of Edward Weston by Imogen Cunningham, unsigned, unmounted
Bronze Head of Archibald MacLeish by Milton Hebald
Print - Drypoint of Ethel Barrymore by Paul-Cesar Helleu; Drawing of Anders Zorn, Self-Portrait
Oil canvas portrait of Frank Duveneck by Frank Duveneck
Ted Shawn Charcoal on paper: by Max Wieczorek, by John Singer Sargent
Oil on panel portrait of William Hull by Gilbert Stuart
Oil on canvas portrait of Sarah Miriam Peale by Sarah Miriam Peale, c. 1818
"Prominent Baptist Ministers" lithograph by Hoffman; Andrew Johnson, Lithograph by Kramer; Abraham Lincoln engraving by WM. H. Pratt; John Brown Folio lithograph; James Buchanan lithograph by Rosenthal (1856); Jefferson Davis lithograph; James Elaine Currier and Ives lithograph; Frank Johnson lithograph by Douflas; "President Johnson & His Cabinet" lithograph Puck; Horace Greeley Chromolithograph; and Benjamin Harrison lithograph by Diamond
Lithograph, George Bellows Self-Portrait (1921)
Drawing of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Ben Shahn (1955)
Color Lithograph of Man Ray by David Hockney
Cartoon by D. C. Johnston - "Soliciting A Vote;" Cartoon by D. C. - "Where's My Thunder;" Cartoon by D. C. Johnston - "The Sad Parting;" Garfield Cartoon for CHIC (lithograph by Kendrick); Lithograph of Stephen Douglas by Currier & Ives
Portfolio of lithographs (The Eight Presidents of the United States of America)
Penfield Calendar (1897) with Portrait of Edward Penfield on cover; Janis Joplin Portrait Poster; Jr. Wells Portrait Poster
"Chaim Gross" Serigraph ed. 15 1943 by Harry Sternberg; George Miller Lithographer lithograph by Ellison Hoover, image
Lithograph of Death of Harrison, by Robinson
Daguerreotype of Francis Parkman c. 1850's by Southwork & Hawes Studio
Photographs by Ralph Steiner: Paul Strand & Gypsy Rose Lee
Prints, Photographic, platinum-palladium: Tennessee Williams by Irving Penn (1951) Reference invoice # 6925
Prints, Photographic, platinum-palladium: S. J. Perelamn by Irving Penn (1962) Reference invoice # 6924
Prints, Photographic, platinum-palladium: Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenors [Elsie May Bell Grosvenor] by Irving Penn (1951) Reference invoice # 6026
Self Portrait of Alice Neel, oil on canvas
Photographic portrait of Gaston Lachaise by Paul Strand

Purchase orders for works of art, FY 1986

Folder 6

Box 1 of 1
Portrait of Thomas Stearns Eloit, Oil on Canvas 45" x 36", by Sir Gerald Kelly
Self Portrait, Caricature of Alfred Frueh (with wife), 1928, Woodcut, signed
Oil on canvas portrait of Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. Van Dine) by Stanton MacDonald-Wright
Lithographic Portrait, "Ed Wynn from the Rear" by Don Freeman, c. 1936
"Senator Billy Mason," Etching by Anders Zorn, Signed in Pencil, 1900
Oil on canvas of Elisha Kent Kane on Board the Advance, 1853. Circa 1860, by Thomas Hicks (not purchased)
Lot 238 (oil on canvas of Egbert Benson by Gilbert Stuart) (not purchased)
Mezzotint of Cotton Mather by Peter Pelham (Stauffer 2469, J. C. Smith)
Self-Portrait Milton Avery, Ink on Paper, 1939
Belgian Film Poster of Josephine Baker, 1927 (Litho), LA Sirene Des Tropiques
"Letting the Cat out of the Bag" - Currier and Ives - Lithographed Cartoon; "The Great Match Baltimore" - Currier and Ives Lithographed Cartoon; "Gen. U.S. Grant" - Currier and Ives Lithographed Cartoon; "Andrew Johnson, President of the U.S." - Gibson and Co., Litho.; "NY State Militia - Major Gen. and Staff" - Litho. by Botticher 1853; "The National Whig Song written by Wm. Hayden, Esq.;" "Hamlet Galop - Homage to Edwin Booth by Da Costa" Music Sheet Cover by Bufford; The Elephant and His Keepers" - Currier 1872
Bronze Bust of John Marin Dated 1908 by Jo Davidson
Lithographic Portrait of L. M. Gottchalk by Sarony, Major and Knapp After J. Gurney
Watercolor "Radio Talent", by Miguel Covarrubias
Portrait of Peter Platt (Plate Printer #1), Drypoint, by Dwight C. Sturges, 1917
George Biddle, Selt Portrait (1932), Lithograph 10 1/4" x 12 3/4"
Lithograph Portrait of Kay Thomson (c. 1948) by Don Freeman

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Box 1 of 1
Portrait of Samuel Slater, Watercolor
Lithograph, Millionaires of the United States - 1884
Lithograph: Billy Bowlegs; Major General John A. Logan; Wood Engraving from Vanity Fair:; Greeley; Chase; Law; Andrew; Bonner; Morris; Russell; Henry Clay - Colored Lithograph - N. Currier
Oil painting on canvas, portrait of Talcott William by Thomas Eakins, c. 1890, 21 1/2" x 20"
Black and White drawing of Booth Tarkington
Self-Portrait" of Thomas Nast, pen and ink drawing, (Signed)
Lithograph of Colonel Richard Johnson, 1833
Photographs - Black and White various sizes: Charles Parker Photo by Dennis Stock (1960); James Dean Photo by Dennis Stock (1955); Judy Garland Photo by Ernst Haas (Early 50s); Martin Luther King Photo by Ernst Haas (1963); Ernest Hemingway Photo by Robert Capa (1941); Richard Nixon and Pat Nixon by Henri Dauman (1960)
Print, Clarence White, Toned Platinum, (1918)
Calvin Coolidge and Ruth St. Dennis by Doris Ulmann
Lithograph no. Apg 4604/2, of Hymn Singer (The Minstrel), 1950; Portrait of Burl Ives, size 12 3/8" x 16," signed in pencil (Lower Right) Thomas Hart Benton Signed in Image (Lower Right) Benton, Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)
Oil on canvas portrait of Talcott Williams by Thomas Eakins
Caricature Lithograph, A Grand Functionary
Portrait of John Wesley Jervis, Painted in oil on panel, by Bass Otis Circa 1816 and numbered "32" on the reverse with painted legend on the reverse signed by J. M. Falconer, Frame size 20 1/4" x 24"
Donald McKay, lithograph by Grozelier after Southworth and Hawes
Engraving of John W. Francis by W. G. Jackman; Lithograph of Rev. Edward Hitchcock, by S. W. Chandler (c. 1855)
Lithograph, "The Trollope Family" (Press of Childs and Inman, 1832)
Lithograph - Fancied Security; Lithograph by Currier and Ives (1865) The Last Ditch of the Chivarly; Lithograph by C & I (I860), The Rail Candidate; Lithograph by C & I (1860), Political, "Blondins" Crossing Salt River; Litho by C & I (1869), the Statue Unveiled; Litho by C & I (1884), Hon. John A. Logan; Litho by C & I Maj. Genl. Philip H. Sheridan; Litho by C & I (1872), Horace Greeley; Litho by N. Currier, (1884) Grand Nat'l Demo. Banner Polk and Dallas; Litho by C & I, (1864), Grand Banner of the Radical Demo, for 1864; Litho by C & I (1880) Gen. James A Garfield; Litho by C & I, Lieut, Gen. Winfield Scott; Litho by J. Baillie, Charles S. Stratton, Known as General Tom Thumb; Litho by Armstrong & Co. (c. 1872), Horace Greeley; Wood Engraving/Harpers Weekly, Ohio - The Busy Life of a President-Elect of the U.S. General Garfield; Cloth Banner - Our George He's All Right - Geo. Dewey; Colotype Photo by Notman (c. 1883) Authors Group; Litho by Sarony and Major, Major Genl. Zachary Taylor; Litho by Motte, John Adams; Litho by H. R. Robinson, Harrison; Chromolitho by T. Sinclair's A. Frey Del. Hon. Edward Everett; engraving by J. Sartain, Andrew Johnson; engraving by Buttre, Andrew Johnson; engraving by Torrey, Andrew Jackson; engraving by Hollyer (1881), Longfellow in study; engraved by Sartain, Major Gen. Geo. H. Thomyas; engraving by Wagstaff & Andrews (1852), Daniel Webster; The international contect between Hennan and Sayers
Oil on canvas portrait of Linus Pauling by Alice Neel, 50" x 36", 1969
General John A. Logan and Family, Litho by Kurz and Allison (1887)
"Travelling Companions" - etching portrait of Charles Deering by Anders Zorn (1904)
Poster, Katharine Dunham, by Paul Colin
Portrait of Carl Zigrosser by Mabel Dwight (lithograph)
Pearl Buck photo by Edward Steichen; Bertolt Brecht photo by Crete Stern; Paul Hindemith photo by August Sander; and Emanuel Feurmann photo (1950s)

Folder 8

Box 1 of 1
Silver Print photo of Theodore Dreiser by Lotte Jacobi (1944); Gevalux Print photo of Allen Dulles by Lotte Jacobi (c. 1952); Gevalux Print photo of Eleanor Roosevelt by Lotte Jacobi; and Silver Print photo of Robert Frost by Lotte Jacobi (1959)
Prints: President Harrison & Family, Garfield & Family, Horace Greeley, Gen. Z. Taylor, H. Johnson
Museum Specimens by Henry Major: David W. Griffith; Eddie Cantor; Jimmy Stewart; Charlie Chaplin; Charlie Chaplin; Charlie Chaplin; Adolph Zukor; Charles Evans Hughes; James A. Farley; Theodore Dreiser; Rube Goldberg; William Howard Taft; Samu8el Gompers; William Jennings Bryan; Clarence Darrow; Pablo Casals; John D. Rockefeller, Sr.; Ernst Lubitsch; Max Reinhardt; Will Hays; Fred Astaire (and Amelia Earnhart); Rudy Vallee; Cecil B. DeMille; Darryly Zanuck; Marcus Loew; William McAdoo; W. C. Fields; John Scopes; and Fanny Hurst
Caricature Lithograph Currier & Ives: The Balls are Rolling; The Democratic Platform; and The Great Republican Reform Party
Museum Specimens: Morse; Lind; Silliman; Woosley; Day; Washington Irving by C. Turner; Thomas Gilmer by D'Avignon; William Cobbett by Maurin; Farragut by Major & Knapp; George Meade by Currier & Ives; Benj. Silliman Hoffman; Stephen Girarg by Leon Noel; Rutgers by Crehen; Luman Reed by Crehen; Charles B. Stuart by D'Avignon; John A. Logan by Frizzell; William Hull by S. A. Clarke after Stuart; George Peabody by Tappan & Bradford; J Chickering; Porter & Farragut by Baker; Webster and Everet by Baker; James Blaine by J. M.; Blaire "Rep. Card." by Bufford; Grover Cleveland by Bufford; Professor Pattison (University of Maryland); Professor Pattison by Sartain; Rev. Richard Allen; Wm. Harrison; Lafayette; Lafayette by Delpech
Photograph of Angna Enters by Doris Ulmann
1844 Letter from Mary Shoemaker, Baltimore, MD to Her Father, F. Shoemaker, Logansport, Indiana describing her trip to Washington, DC
Bronze Sculpture of the head of Andrew Furuseth, 1929, on black marble base Jo Davidson, American (1883-1952) Signed: Jo Davidson 1929, marked Roman bronze works NY, Height:20 1/2 inches, Edition:One of three casts
Davy's Crockett's Almanack for 1835; Davy Crockett's Almanack for 1837
Vanity Fair, C25, lot of 2 - Samuel Chase & Horace Greeley; Vanity Fair, C20, lot of 5 - William Russell, Robert Bonner, General G. P. Morris, George Law, & Governor Andrew; Billy Bowlegs; Major General John A. Logan; and Henry Clay by N. Currier (Litho)
Engraving of George Washington (published by Atkins and Nightingale)
To amend RCN 601927 to increase the maximum bid at auction for the daguerreotype of Matthew Brady

Purchase orders for works of art, FY 1987

Folder 9

Box 1 of 1
Portrait of Douglas Macarthur, Lithograph, By Samuel J. Woolf
Photograph, John Marin, By Paul Strand
Photograph, Gelatin Silver print, William Carlos Williams, 1924
Portrait of Sinclair Lewis (Watercolor) By William Sharp
Photo, Vintage Silver Print, Lillian Gish, By Alfred Cheney Johnston
Photo, Fannie Hurst By Lotte Jacobi & Photo, Louis Broomfield By Lotte Jacobi
Photograph of Josephine Baker, Signed
Gelatin Silver Print Photograph of John Steinbeck, 1947; Gelatin silver print photograph of Dr. John Dewey, 1943
Photo, Silver Print, Cole Porter by Frances Mclaughlin-Gill
Photo, Vintage Silver Print, H. L. Mencken By A. Aubrey Bodine
Lithograph, Heywood Broun By Peggy Bacon, 1930
Mayors of the Olden Time, By Alexander Gardner 1865, Photo, Large Plate Album Print
Photograph of: Dr. Alvin Johnson, By Josef Breitenbach, c. 1954; Walter Reuther, By Josef Breitenbach, 1947; Dr. Elton Mayo, By Josef Breitenbach, 1946
Copperplate of William Loughton Smith By Fournier
Oil painting Portrait of William Pitt Pessenden By Constantino Brumidi
Authorization for William F. Stapp to bid at auction on behalf of the NPG following item: Catalog lot no. 23: Half-Plate Daguerreotype of John Greenleaf Whittier (not purchased)
Drawing of John White Alexander, Pencil on Paper By F. Luis Mora
Cartoons, Vanity Fair, By Thomas Nast (Chromolitho); Wood Engravings, Harper's, By Thomas Nast
Oil on Linen Portraits of William Cullen Bryant, Charles T. McClenachan, and Lester Wallack By Thomas Nast
Photographic Portraits By Lotte Jacobi: J. D. Salinger; Christopher Morley; Margaret Mead

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Box 1 of 1
Etching of Joseph Pennel By Henry Ziegler
Oil on canvas, portrait of Dr. Helen M. Lynd By Alice Neel
John Dos Passos, litho crayon drawing, By Adolf Dehn; Hattie Carnegie, litho crayon drawing, by Hugo Gellert
"Red Grange at Soldier Field #1", By F. Farre, Etching on Rives paper, 1928
Lithograph of Mary Anderson By Charles Taber & Co.
#P238 - "L'AIGLE NOIR" Lithographic Poster of Rudolph Valentino, 1925; #p740 - "Trinidad" lithographic poster of Rita Hayworth by Ballester, 1953; #p782 - "Yankee Doodle Dandy" lithographic poster of James Cagney as George M. Cohan, 1942
Contractor will write, direct and produce a film for the fall exhibition "American Colonial Portraits: 1700 to 1776" as per attached contract
Portrait of Douglas Fairbanks as The Gaucho American Movie Poster, 1927
"The Fifteenth Amendment", Lithograph, Published By Thomas Kelly (1870), after James C. Beard
"The American Kings:" By J. H. Pendelton, Boston - George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe
105. Buffalo Bill (I AM COMING) Item Bid on at auction held May 3, 1987 By Dealer Jack Banning on behalf of the NPG, auction no.4, paddle no. 315
Photographic portrait of Robert W. Weir (Uniden) (Albumen Print); Photograph, Katherine Cornell in "The Doctor's Dilemma" (Silver Print)
Photographic portrait of Billie Holiday By Sid Grossman
Photographic Portrait, Gelatin Silver Print, of ASA Phillips Randolph, By Sy Kattelson (1948)
Portrait Engraving of "Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, March 4th 1829," c. 1829
Errol Flynn Poster
Lithograph of Father Charles Coughlin By Hugo Gellert; Drawing of; Eugues Debs by Hugo Gellert; George Eastman by Hugo Gellert; Fannie Hurst by Hugo Gellert; Walt Disney by Hugo Gellert; Albert Barnes by Hugo Gellert; Rudy Vallee by William Sharp; Arthur Hopkins by William Sharp
Photograph of Henry James by Alice Boughton; Photograph of William James by Alice Boughton
Stereophotograph of Ulysses S. Grant with his favorite mount "Cincinnati", c.1864
Poster of Laurel and Hardy, "Chumps at Oxford"
Henry Major Drawings, As Follows: John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Paul Whiteman, Bob Hope, Errol Flynn, Samuel Goldwyn, William Powell, George Cukor, Edgar Bergen, Shirley Temple, Laurel & Hardy, and Jimmy Duranty
Oil on Canvas, Charles Lindbergh and Dr. Alexis Carrel by Samuel J. Woolf & Louis Brandeis by Samuel Woolf

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Box 1 of 1
Oil on canvas portrait of Rubens Peale by Rembrandt Peale
Watercolor portrait of Gen. U. S. Grant by Thomas Nast
Drawing, Pencil on Paper (PK 138) Sketch of Edward Weston by Peter Krasnow
Portrait of William Randolph Hearst, Photograph, vintage silver print, 1933 by Erich Salomon
Photographic portrait of Jack Kerouac by Robert Frank (1985)
Watercolor portrait of Edwin Austin Abbey by "Spy"
Drawings, Al Hirschfeld: Wendell L. Willkie (Gouache), Walter Winchell, and Mark Blitzstein
Oil on canvas of Patience Lovell Wright (1725-1786) attributed to John Hoppner Circa 1782 (framed)
Portrait, Oil on Canvas, of President Andrew Johnson by Washington Bogart Cooper
Quarter-Plate Daguerreotype of President Franklin Pierce
Portrait of Norma Shearer, c. 1918-1920, Photograph, Toned vintage silver print by Alfred Cheney Johnston
Portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960's, photo, vintage gelatin silver print by Richard Avedon
Photograph, vintage Silver Print, 1933: William Randolph Hearst, Andrew Mellon, and Admiral Perry, Calotype negative, c. 1850 by unknown photographer
The Long Count (Dempsey VS. Tunney), Lithograph by Joseph Webster Golinkin
Portrait crayon drawing of Dorothy parker by Peggy Bacon
To bid on Lot 343, brush and black ink of Adlai Stevenson by Ben Shahn, auction to be held Dec. 5, 1986 (not purchased)
Color Linocut portrait of Jed Harris by William Levy
Lithographic poster of Buster Keaton - "The Cameraman" - c. 1925
Wood Engravings by Thomas Nast: Played Out; The Reign of the Press; Mysterious Influence; A Financial Mistake; Midsummer Night's Dream; Let Us Have...Restoration; and Like Cromwell
Engraved portrait of Benjamin Rush by E. Savage
Etched portrait of Consuelo Vanderbilt by Paul Helleu
Portrait Prints: Franklin Perce by N. Currier; Martin Van Buren by N. Currier; Major General Winfield Scott by Currier (1847)
Lithographic portrait of Rev. Joel Hawes D. D. by Alden & Kuchel, c. 1845
(Caricature Lithographic) The Great American Buck Hunt by Currier and Ives; (Portrait Print) George Handel Hill; (Sheet Music Cover Lithographic) Harry Howard
Photographic Portrait of Gertrude Stein by Man Ray 1927, Gelatin Silver Print
Drawings, Henry Major: Kate Smith; Ethel Merman; Will Rogers; Humphrey Bogart; Walt Disney; George Arliss; Ruth St. Denis; Frank Lloyd Wright; Thomas Edison; Fritz Kreisler; and Arthur Rubinstein
Bronze Bust of Berebice Abbot by Isamu Noguchi
Hand-Color Lithograph, "The American Fireman, Always Ready" Self-Portrait of Nathaniel Currier, 1858