Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Community Engravings & Artwork, Accession #10517-c , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

The collection was given to the University of Virginia Library by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, Fairhope, Alabama on March 30, 2001, through Paul Gaston.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of ca. 550 engravings and prints (1 Hollinger box and 17 OS folders) from the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation community, dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The engravings were acquired by Marie Howland, assistant editor of the Fairhope newspaper. The collection contains engravings, a few of which may be originals; restrikes; 19th century reprints from magazines and books; some original art work and tissue paper tracings, both presumably by Howland; and photographs.

Photographs include faded portraits of Lord Palmerston, Lord Lyndhurst, William Walker with original autograph, and the Rev. Dr. Marvine; a few small snapshots of Swiss scenes and a large one of a glacier; and one mounted scene of four women in front of a Victorian gingerbread house.

Miscellaneous items include pages from a souvenir book from the 1889 Paris Exposition, and oversize engravings of prominent Protestant Reformation figures from a book. Individual portrait engravings include European nobility and rulers; popes; Christian saints; artists, such as Gilbert Charles Stuart; authors such as John Milton and William Shakespeare; scientists, like Sir Isaac Newton; explorers, like Sir Walter Raleigh; and philosophers.

Arrangement

The items in the collection are arranged first by the type of illustration and size and then by subject matter.