Scope and Contents

Red velvet photograph album contains 78 Culmer family photographs. Includes a variety of Newcomb, Morris and Co., and C. R. Savage cabinet cards or CDVs (carte de visites), as well as some from San Francisco photographers. Dated apporximately 1880-1910. The second is a Culmer/Wells family photo album. This contains 23 cabinet cards. Many photographs in both albums are unlabled.

Content Description

Contains photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, ledgers, correspondence, and poetry produced by Culmer. Materials document Culmer's art production and sales, as well as his work as a mining agent and author. Also includes photograph albums of the Culmer family, and a small collection of watercolors by Culmer and his son H. Wells Culmer. Materials date from between 1874 and 1914.

Scope and Contents

Contains a box of small original artwork, including one piece by H. L. A. Culmer, but primarily watercolors and sketches by his son, H. Wells Culmer. Dated approximately 1874-1914.

Scope and Contents Contains roughly 300 photographs, newspaper clippings, broadsides, and prints containing artwork by Culmer. In the second half of the album, Culmer notes the work's number in his master inventory, as well as the name of the individual who purchased it. Material dated approximately 1880-1914. The record paintings of H. L. A. Culmer, notebook, is a numbered list of paintings 382-1091, including the date finished, title, medium, size, price, date sold and to whom, remarks, and number. Material...

Scope and Contents Letterpress copybook includes an index and Culmer's business and general correspondence. Correspondence regards Culmer's work as a mining agent, with accompanying maps; his efforts to publish a tourism book; and his efforts to write a biography of John T. Cutting of Chicago in 1875. This copybook also includes poetry and newspaper submissions. Dated approximately 1874-1878. Culmer's scrapbook contains newspaper clippings of pieces written about by or about Culmer. Also includes many pieces...