John Bennett Papers

Résumé du livre

Photographs (ca. 1875-1956) are of John Bennett and Bennett family members, scenes in Chillicothe (Ohio), North Carolina, and elsewhere, Woodburn Plantation (S.C.), family dwellings, black fishermen and farm workers (ca. 1900), and other subjects. Also included are negatives, including glass negatives of family portraits and houses and buildings in Charleston (S.C.), and silhouette cutouts on glass. Original artwork includes designs for silhouettes, ornamental lettering, mounted silhouettes, and pencil drawings of Egyptian motifs, humorous characters, and other subjects, with related correspondence. There are also reproductions of Bennett's silhouettes and illustrations, and clippings of cartoons and other material.