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Library of Congress ; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1975. Paper covers, 79 pp. Contents Prints, the Camera, and Historical Accuracy BY JOSEPHINE COBB; Pictorial Responses to the Caning of Senator Sumner BY DAVID TATHAM; Andrew Jackson in Cartoon and Caricature BY NANCY R. DAVISON; Prints as Documents of Early American History BY FRANK H. SOMMER III; Revivalist Themes in American Prints and Folksongs BY ELIZABETH GILMORE HOLT; Little Loretto, Kentucky BY EDGAR BREITENBACH; Illustrated News in Early American Prints BY PETER C. MARZIO; Prints of the Mexican War as Historical Sources By RONNIE C. TYLER; Amiable frauds BY FREDERICK S. HICKS. B&w illustrations throughout. [Excerpt from Preface The 16th annual Winterthur Conference in March 1970 was entitled "Prints in and of America, to 1850" and recognized the curious fact that, despite the considerable attention paid to American painting, architecture, sculpture, and decorative arts, comparatively little scholarly work had been devoted to early printmaking on this continent. The response to the papers, exhibitions, and informal exchanges at that gathering was so profound that, on the last day, a resolution was offered proposing the continuation of the meetings, at a time and place to be determined. So it was that a year later, in the spring of 1971, the Colonial Society convened a meeting in Boston, in 1972 the Library of Congress sponsored a symposium in Washington, and in 1973 several Philadelphia institutions arranged a seminar there. This book contains the papers delivered in Washington. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this series of scholarly encounters is that there is no ongoing, formal organization that has sponsored or coordinated plans for the meetings. The impetus has come from those who have been present at previous meetings and who were able to offer facilities and to show prints that were in the tradition of the earlier seminars.
