Title	Finding aid for Drawings by Henry B. Brown, 1851-1852.
Creator	Brown, Henry B., b. 1816.
Extent	43 items.
Biographical Note	Henry B. Brown was probably born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in January 1816. In the 1840s, he worked as a portrait artist and engraver, and in 1851 he traveled to San Francisco with his friend Jacob Bailey Moore. Brown worked for Moore for the next several months, gathering specimens and making drawings in the California countryside. In March of 1852, he was commissioned by John Russell Bartlett, head of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary Commission and a friend of Moore, to draw views of landscapes and Indians in Northern California, assist with collecting Indian vocabularies, and make maps of the area, with a view towards contributing to Bartlett's book Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua (1854). Brown traveled to New York in the late summer of 1852, and presumably drew his coastal scenes of Mexico and Central America during the trip. From 1856 to 1859, he served as US Consul for Bermuda. Little is known of his life after that date his health was poor at the time of his resignation in 1859, and he may have died in late 1860 or soon after. He should not be confused with the Maine artist Harrison Bird Brown (1831-1915) or with the escaped slave Henry Box Brown (b. 1816).
Scope and Content	The forty-two drawings are arranged according to their five general subjects: California Native Americans (7), California landscapes (24), Mexico (4), Central America (6), and Other (1). Although the exact Indian tribes in Brown's drawings are not known, it is believed that they are the Maidu, Nomlaki, Patwin, Wintun, and /or the Shasta. The California landscape drawings include views of San Francisco, Mount Shasta, Marysville, Grass Valley, mining camps, the Sacramento River, and Nevada City. The scenes of Mexico and Central America include Acapulco, the Gulf of California, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador. The drawings are dated 1851 and 1852. There is one undated drawing of the Susquehanna River in Port Deposit, Maryland.
Notes	All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator, Western American Manuscripts.
Date	1851-1852
Provenance	Catherine C. Abbot, Purchase, December 13, 2000.
Subject	Brown, Henry B., b. 1816. Artists -- California -- 19th century. Drawing, American -- 19th century. Indians of North America -- California -- Drawings. Indians of North America -- California -- Portraits. Maidu Indians -- Drawings. Mines and mineral resources -- California -- Drawings. Mining camps -- California -- Drawings. Nomlaki Indians -- Drawings. Patwin Indians -- Drawings. Shasta Indians -- Drawings. Wintun Indians -- Drawings. California -- Drawings. Central America -- Drawings -- 19th century. Grass Valley (Calif.) -- Drawings. Mexico -- Drawings -- 19th century. Mount Shasta (Calif.) -- Drawings. Nevada City (Calif.) -- Drawings. Ometepe Island (Nicaragua) -- Drawings. Port Deposit (Md.) -- Drawings. Sacramento River (Calif.) -- Drawings. Sacramento Valley (Calif.) -- Drawings. San Francisco (Calif.) -- Drawings. San Juan del Sur Bay (Nicaragua) -- Drawings. Susquehanna River -- Drawings. Tehama County (Calif.) -- Drawings.
Form/Genre	Drawings California 19th century. (aat) Drawings Central America 19th century. (aat) Drawings Mexico 19th century. (aat) Sketches California 19th century. (aat) Sketches Central America 19th century. (aat) Sketches Mexico 19th century. (aat) Finding aids. (aat)
Department	Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscripts Department.
Call Number	mssHM 62464 (1-43)
Accession Number	mss 02094
Physical Collection	Henry B. Brown Drawings.
Digital Collection	Finding Aids, Huntington Digital Library
Physical Description	7 p.
Digitization Specifications	Original finding aid converted into PDF document by B. Black, 2010-03-24.
Date Digital	2010-03-24
DCMI Type	text
Digital Format	pdf
Original Finding Aid	Finding aid prepared by Brooke M. Black, June 27, 2001.
Citation Information	Finding aid for Henry B. Brown Drawings, Huntington Digital Library, San Marino, California.
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Unique Digital Identifier	Brownfinding aid.pdf