Cameron, James, 1816?-
Landscape painter, Portrait painter
Size: 140 items (on partial microfilm reel).
Summary: Letters to Cameron's mother and wife; 37 letters from wood engraver, landscape and genre painter Thomas B. Ashton, 1846-1850; and 5 letters from sculptor Joseph Mozier, 1846-1847.
Portrait and landscape painter; Philadelphia, Pa. Born in Scotland ca. 1816. Worked in Indianapolis, Ind. prior to 1849, later settled in Philadelphia.
Microfilmed with other art-related papers from Mills College Library, July 1981.
Microfilm reel 2294 available at Archives of American Art offices, Mills College Library, and through interlibrary loan.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
James Cameron letters, 1843-1876. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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