This document is intended as a guide to data entry and descriptive cataloging for Huntington Library digital projects using CONTENTdm software. It will be updated as modifications in the software and/or metadata schema necessitate.
One bound scrapbook entitled Album, a collection of domestic images mounted to paper (forming leaves within the scrapbook). There are 45 pages of images; the second half of the album is blank. The scrapbook contains cutout images of a primarily...
One drawing book entitled Art in the Nursery, published for D. Lothrop & Company, Boston, by John Wilson & Son/University Press, 1879. The front cover shows seven children in a room, three of whom are painting. The image is bordered by flowers. ...
The Herbert William Singleton Collection is an outstanding group of Civil War photographs that includes the work of noted photographers Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, William H. Tipton, and George S. Cook. Lindsey M. Gould, a Civil War veteran,...
One painting book entitled The New Painting Book for Boys and Girls, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, ca. 1910. The book is bound in pink paper covers, the title and decorative border are in gold. It is comprised of a single, long sheet of...
Candid and casual images of House Beautiful staff and possibly home owners doing recreational activities or setting up for photo shoots. Includes candid images taken at the Graf residence (see project 1359), the Ruskin residence (see project...
One painting book entitled The New Painting Book for Boys and Girls, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, ca. 1910. The book is bound in blue paper covers, the title and decorative border are in gold. It is comprised of a single, long sheet of...
One scrapbook/collage created from The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern Edition, published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, copyright 1899. The scrapbook is 40 numbered pages in length, and scrapbook images have also...
One scrapbook entitled House in a Book, created by Marian B. Healey, ca. 1900 and ca. 1930. The scrapbook is divided roughly into two sections. The first is approximately 64 pages in length and created ca. 1900, followed by 54 blank pages and the...
One set of painting books entitled Pretty Pets Painting Books. Six Kinds, All Different, published by Saml. Grabriel Sons & Company, New York, ca. 1910. Only three of the six remain; these are Nos. 1, 4, and 6. Each of the books is 22 unnumbered...
One boxed painting set entitled The ‘Little Artist’s' Masterpiece Painting Set: with Quality Paints and Masterpiece Pictures, manufactured by Whitman Publishing Co., ca. 1932. This set is comprised of 8 round cakes of watercolor paint within...
Margaret Huntington Holladay was born on February 4, 1899 in Texas to John Walker Broad and Martha E. Puriton. It appears that she had only one sister, Annie. At some point, Margaret and her family moved to California where she met and married...
Arthur Dominique Rozaire (Rosaire) was born in Montreal, Canada on January 17, 1879 to Dominique Joseph Francois Rosaire, a decorative designer, and Mary Hammall. Rozaire attended the Quebec Council of Arts and Manufactures at Monument National....
Prudence Ward was born on October 6, 1795 in Newton, Massachusetts to Joseph Ward and Prudence (Bird) Ward. She had seven siblings: Elizabeth, Joseph, Myra, Joseph, Caroline, Dennis, and George Washington. Prudence never married but was a much...
Burke Eugene Casari, a resident of Lincoln, Nebraska, worked as an administrator for environmental programs at the State Health Department. He became interested in Richard Burton in 1962, while teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Casari has...
One bound scrapbook, untitled, compiled by Helen Doble, ca. 1857--1860. It is approximately 100 pages in length, and contains images and scenes of cut out images and scenes created from paper and bits of material. Some of the pages contain...
One scrapbook created from a Boston business directory entitled Business Album, Houlton House, published 1868. It is in a cloth binding, with one-quarter red morocco (spine and corners). "Business Album" is stamped on the spine; "Houlton House" is...
One scrapbook, untitled, created ca. 1885. The scrapbook is 22 unnumbered pages in length, and is made from paper and images pasted to the leaves of an instruction book by Walter Smith (the inside back cover of the instruction book is the only page...
One drawing book entitled Art in the Nursery, published by D. Lothrop & Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1879. The front cover illustration, printed by J. H. Buffords Sons, Boston & New York, shows seven children in a room, three of whom are...
One drawing book entitled Our Country Drawing Book, by Alfred G. Bauer, published by Sprauge Warner & Company, Chicago, copyright 1903. The front cover shows a young girl sitting at a desk in a classroom, drawing in a book; the lower-left corner...