urn:taro:utexas.cah.01943 A Guide to the Graham R. Hodges Print Collection, ca. 1853-1919 Original EAD encoding by Linda Peterson according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. August 2010 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Hodges, Graham R. Graham R. Hodges Print Collection ca. 1853-1919 Materials are written in English. 87-35; 87-54; 89-49; 90-99; 91-052 ca. 1000 prints Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Subjects for the prints in this collection come mainly from the pages of Leslie's and Harper's weeklies. They include the Civil War, the Spanish American War, the American West, the South, Latin America and Texas. Also included are portraits, mainly of politicians and military personnel. Historical Note

Most of the prints in this collection come from the pages of Leslie’s and Harper’s Weekly magazines. During their heyday these two publications accounted for a large number of the illustrations that were seen by the average American. Both were particularly distinguished in the images that they published during the Civil War. Harper’s Weekly was published from 1857 to 1916. Leslie’s Weekly dated from 1852-1922. Graham R. Hodges was a pastor from New York who collected these prints over a number of years and then donated them to the Briscoe Center for American History.

 Scope and Contents

Subjects for the lithographs and engravings in this collection include the Civil War, the Spanish American War, the American West, the South, Latin America and Texas. Also included are portraits, mainly of politicians and military personnel, and images of various entertainments and fashions representative of popular culture in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

 Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881 Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Hodges, Graham R.--Archives Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Subjects Indians Latin America Spanish-American War, 1898 United States—History—Civil War 1861-1865 Places Cuba Galveston (Tex.) Hawaii New Orleans (La.) Philippines Washington (D. C.) Preferred Citation

Graham R. Hodges Print Collection, ca. 1853-1919, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Processing Information

Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 3S239 Prints 3S247 Prints 3S248 Prints