[Papers of Alexander H. Stephens and the Family of Harry and Eliza Stephens]

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • [Papers of Alexander H. Stephens and the Family of Harry and Eliza Stephens]
Date1866–1907
MediumLetters and manuscripts
DimensionsVaries
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors
Object number2020.136.1-.6.A-.M
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Provenance[Swann Auction Galleries, Printed & Manuscript African Americana, May 7, 2020, Sale 2534, Lot 260]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.

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[Harry and Eliza Stephens and Their Children]
George Jefferson Gable
1866
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2020.136.1
La Despedida (The Parting)
Terry Allen
1974
Watercolor dyes, oil pastel, color pencil, and graphite on wove paper with assemblage of chromogenic photographs, masking tape, typed letters on paper, cellophane tapes, cut-and-pasted lettering, and transferred letters; acrylic bonnet with painted balsa wood and cardboard letters
2015.192
Alexander H. Stephens and His Faithful Attendant Alexander Kent
c. 1875
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2020.136.4
Alexander H. Stephens
Mathew B. Brady
1860–1865
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2020.136.3
Frontispiece.
c. 1569-1599
Illuminated manuscript
36.53
Illuminated pages.
c. 1583
Leather bound illuminated manuscript with lead seal; ink and pigment on parchment
36.54.A,.B
Book of Hours (The “Mors Vincit Omnia” Hours)
c. 1510
Illuminated manuscript on parchment; bound in leather
BF.2015.19
Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying)
Konrad Kachelofen
1497
Woodcut, letter press and pen and ink initial on laid paper; 20th century full morocco binding with gilt-tooled spine and covers and edge gilding
BF.2019.3
[Album for Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Rue]
1883–1884
Album of letters
2020.137.52
The Increasing Power, The Need for Sacrifice
Mary Jo La Fontaine
1988
Gelatin silver print with painted wood and brass letters
2002.1505.A-.D
The Ideal Scrap Book
Everett Fink
1917–1920
Album of gelatin silver prints, letters, and ephemera
2020.137.76