Scope and Contents
Dates
- 1835 - 1951
- Majority of material found within 1879 - 1946
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
10.6 Linear Feet (36 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Howard Jones (1853-1945)
In 1878 Howard Jones's sister Genevieve (1847-1879) and her friend Eliza Jane Shulze began a project to illustrate the nests and eggs of local birds in the fashion of John James Audubon's work Birds of America. Howard Jones agreed to collect the required specimens and to write the accompanying texts, and the two women, both amateur artists, drew images of the specimens directly on lithographic stones and hand-colored the resulting prints. Their limited-edition publication, titled Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio, was issued to subscribers in twenty-three parts between 1879 and 1886, with the printing done in Cincinnati by the Krebs Lithographing Co. (plates) and Robert Clarke & Co. (texts); production costs were underwritten by Nelson Jones. When Genevieve Jones died from typhoid fever one month after Part I was issued, her mother Virginia, also an untrained artist, stepped in to complete the illustrations, hiring three young women, including Josephine Klippart (1848-1936), to assist with coloring the plates. The publication was heralded by contemporary ornithologists for its fidelity to nature, with favorable comparisons made to Audubon's work.
- Amateur periodicals -- Ohio
- Arthur H. Clark Company
- Baxter, J. H. (Jedediah H.), 1837-1890
- Birds -- Ohio
- Buckeye
- Circleville (Ohio) -- Description and travel
- Circleville Light and Power Company
- Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809
- Electric utilities -- Ohio
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 -- Assassination
- Hobart College -- Students
- Indians of North America -- Government relations
- Indians of North America -- Ohio
- Jones family
- Jones, Eleanor B. (Eleanor Beckwith), 1896-1987
- Jones, Genevieve (Genevieve Estelle), 1847-1879
- Jones, Howard, 1853-1945
- Jones, Howard, 1853-1945 (Illustrations of the nests and eggs of birds of Ohio)
- Jones, N. E. (Nelson Edward), 1821-1901
- Jones, Virginia S. (Virginia Smith), 1826-1906
- Juvenilia
- Krebs Lithographing Company
- Logan, James, -1780
- Medicine -- Ohio -- History
- Ornithology -- Ohio
- Peattie, Donald Culross, 1898-1964
- Physicians -- Ohio
- Physicians -- Ohio -- 20th Century
- Pickaway magazine
- Robert Clarke & Co
- Sheldon, H. E.
- Smith, H. L. (Hamilton Lanphere), 1819-1903
- Thompson, Lewis M.
- Title
- Guide to the Howard Jones Papers
- Author
- by Sandra Markham
- Date
- 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
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