Vinnie Ream and Richard Leveridge Hoxie papers,

Ream, Vinnie, 1847-1914.

Vinnie Ream and Richard Leveridge Hoxie papers, 1853-1937 (bulk 1853-1914). - 2,500 items. 9 2 containers plus oversize. 5 microfilm reels. 6 linear feet.

Open to research.

Correspondence, memoranda, writings, reports, notebooks, commissions, biographical data, printed material, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Ream's work following her commission to execute the statue of Abraham Lincoln now standing in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. Other topics include racial conditions after the Civil War and social life in Washington, D.C., during Reconstruction. Papers (1853-1937) of Ream's husband Richard Leveridge Hoxie include material pertaining to Hoxie's Civil War service and two notebooks kept while serving on the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian led by George M. Wheeler. Includes a map said to have been carried by William T. Sherman on his march to the sea during the Civil War. Correspondents include George Caleb Bingham, Elias A. Boudinot, Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, Olivia Briggs, Ezra Cornell, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Jubal Anderson Early, G.P.A. Healy, Joaquin Miller, Crosby Stuart Noyes, Albert Pike, David D. Porter, James S. Rollins, Edmund G. Ross, Alexander Robey Shepherd, William T. Sherman, Thaddeus Stevens, and Daniel W. Voorhees.




Microfilm from originals in the Manuscript Division
Washington, D.C. :
Library of Congress Photoduplication Service,
1995.
Microfilm of originals of the Vinnie Ream Hoxie file in the office of the U.S. Architect of the Capitol.
Washington, D.C.


U.S. Architect of the Capitol,
Washington, DC


Architectural drawings and some photographs
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
transferred to
Broadside
Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
transferred to
Sheet music
Library of Congress Music Division.
transferred to


Vinnie Ream, sculptor; and Richard Leveridge Hoxie, army officer and engineer.


Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009063

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Bingham, George Caleb, 1811-1879 --Correspondence.
Boudinot, Elias A.--Correspondence.
Brandes, Georg, 1842-1927 --Correspondence.
Briggs, Olivia--Correspondence.
Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874 --Correspondence.
Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 1842-1933 --Correspondence.
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 --Correspondence.
Healy, G. P. A. 1813-1894 --Correspondence.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Statues.
Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913 --Correspondence.
Noyes, Crosby Stuart, 1825-1908 --Correspondence.
Pike, Albert, 1809-1891 --Correspondence.
Porter, David D. 1813-1891 --Correspondence.
Rollins, James S. 1812-1888 --Correspondence.
Ross, Edmund G. 1826-1907 --Correspondence.
Shepherd, Alexander Robey, 1835-1902 --Correspondence.
Sherman, William T. 1820-1891.
Sherman, William T. 1820-1891 --Correspondence.
Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868 --Correspondence.
Voorhees, Daniel W. 1827-1897 --Correspondence.
Wheeler, George M. 1842-1905.


United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)


Military engineering.
Race relations.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Washington (D.C.)
Sculpture.
Sherman's March to the Sea.
Statues--Washington (D.C.)
Surveys.


Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.
United States--History--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865


Army officers.
Sculptors.

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