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Collection Overview
Abstract
Life and death masks of famous and infamous persons and papers including, letters, photographs, and student research regarding the McComas Collection. The masks in this collection are believed to be casts from masks in the Lawrence Hutton Collection located at Princeton University.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
McDaniel College
Accruals:
2012.13, copies of the comdemnation records from the Smithsonian.
Use Restrictions:
Copyright: McDaniel College may hold copyright to sections of this material.
McDaniel College makes no representation that it is the owner of any copyright or other literary property in the materials contained in its archives, manuscript collections, and special collections unless specifically stated, (b) that in providing access to or permitting the reproduction of any such materials, McDaniel Archives does not assume any responsibility for obtaining or granting any permission to publish or use the same, and (c) that the responsibility (i) for determining the nature of any rights, and the ownership or interest therein, and for obtaining the appropriate permissions to publish or use and (ii) for determining the nature of any liabilities (including liabilities for defamation and invasion of privacy or publicity) that may arise from any publication or use, rest entirely with the researcher.
Copying: Papers may be copied in accordance with the Archives usual procedures.
Acquisition Source:
Art Department
Acquisition Method:
Transfer
Related Materials:
RG25 - Office of the President Lowell Ensor Papers: letters between Lowell Ensor and Phil Myers concerning the donation of the McComas's masks; letter to Dr. Henry McComas from Lowell Ensor thanking him for the collection of masks.
Preferred Citation:
McComas Collection, SpC2005.50.4; McDaniel College Archives, Westminster, Maryland
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Box and Folder Listing
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Accession 2005.50: McComas Collection at McDaniel College],
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Accession 2013.13: Copies of Smithsonian accession and condemnation records for the McComas Collection., 1955-1975 and 2013],
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Accession 2013.57: McComas Life and Death Masks],
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- Accession 2014.22: McComas Life and Death Masks
- Life and death masks from the McComas Collection that were brought from the Art Studio to the Archives on July 3, 2014.
- Box B00800: Wilhelm Richard Wagner
- Composer.
- Box B00801: Pope Pius IX
- Box B00802: Frederick II, The Great of Prussia
- Box B00803: Ben Caunt
- Nineteenth century English bare-knuckle boxer.
- Box B00804: Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeaû
- French revolutionary, writer, diplomat, journalist, and French Politician.
- Box B00805: Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi
- Early nineteenth century Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist.
- Box B00806: Jonathan Swift
- Irish author and satirist.
- Box 600200: Benjamin Disraeli
- British Prime Minister 1874-1880. (b 1804-d. 1881)
- Box 600440: Napoleon III
- Louis Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, elected president of the 2nd Republic of France in 1850 and was made Emperor in 1852. He was deposed in 1870 and sent to England where he died in 1873. (b 1805)
- Box 600101: John Calhoun
- Box 600110: John Calhoun
- Bust.
- Box 600130: Count Camillo Cavour
- Italian Statesman (b. 1810- d.1861)
- Box 600245: Girl from the River Seine
- Mask from the body of a young woman who was pulled from the Seine circa 1900. This mask is not listed as part of the collection donated to the College in 1955 from Henry McComas. The mask may be part of the McComas Collection that was transferred to the College in 1973, however there is not a list of the masks from this collection.
- Box 600370: John McCullah
- American actor (b.1837-d. 1885)
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Accession 2005.50: McComas Collection at McDaniel College],
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Accession 2013.13: Copies of Smithsonian accession and condemnation records for the McComas Collection., 1955-1975 and 2013],
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Accession 2013.57: McComas Life and Death Masks],
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