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McComas Collection

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McComas Collection at McDaniel College

Copies of Smithsonian accession and condemnation records for the McComas Collection.

McComas Life and Death Masks

McComas Life and Death Masks



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McComas Collection, 1955-2013 | McDaniel College

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Title: McComas Collection, 1955-2013Add to your cart.

ID: SpC/2005.50.4

Primary Creator: McComas, Henry Clay (1875-)

Extent: 1.0 Boxes

Arrangement: Series

Date Acquired: 06/21/2005. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: death masks, life masks, Masks (Sculpture)

Languages: English

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

death masks
life masks
Masks (Sculpture)

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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[Accession 2005.50: McComas Collection at McDaniel College],
[Accession 2013.13: Copies of Smithsonian accession and condemnation records for the McComas Collection., 1955-1975 and 2013],
[Accession 2013.57: McComas Life and Death Masks],
[Accession 2014.22: McComas Life and Death Masks],
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Accession 2005.50: McComas Collection at McDaniel CollegeAdd to your cart.
Records include gift letter from McCommas to Western Maryland College and the explanation of how the original collection was split between Western Maryland College and the Smithsonian.
Item 1: Booklet, "Actual Faces", 1940sAdd to your cart.
Booklet produced by Henry McComas to promote his collection of life and death masks of famous persons.
Item 2: Letter, March 15, 1965Add to your cart.
Lettter from Philip Myers to Nancy Sellman explaining the donation of the McComas collection to Western Maryland College.
Series 1: Beverly Wilson's Research on the McComas Collection, 1976Add to your cart.
Project by Berverly I. Wilson for Special Studies 03 452 using the McComas Collection.
Item 1: Photographs of masks, 1976Add to your cart.
Sixty- seven black and white photographs of masks.  Includes negatives
Item 2: Transparancies, 1976Add to your cart.
Sixty- seven transparencies of individual masks, three transparencies of masks on shelves and two transparencies of masks in boxes (copies).
Item 3: Index card list of masks, 1976Add to your cart.
Item 4: Portraits in Plaster, 1976Add to your cart.

Report including:

special Studies Statement

statement of expenses for the project

retyped Fact Sheet about the collection

list of the Documented Masks, number, description, life span

list of undocumented copies

historical significance summary for each documented mask

Series 2: List of masks in Collection, undatedAdd to your cart.
List of masks and the number of each mask, includes some information about the identities and the masks' origins.
Accession 2013.13: Copies of Smithsonian accession and condemnation records for the McComas Collection., 1955-1975 and 2013Add to your cart.
Includes notes on life and death mask records that explain how the McComas Collection that was at the Smithsonian came to Western maryland College, now McDaniel College.  These copies were attachments to emails between a student researching the collection for her senior project and the Smithsonian.
Accession 2013.57: McComas Life and Death MasksAdd to your cart.
Box B00661: Aaron Burr, Jr.Add to your cart.
Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson.
Box B00662: John C. CalhounAdd to your cart.
Nineteenth century American politician and theorist from South Carolina.
Box B00663: Charles CarrollAdd to your cart.
Signer of the Declaration of Independence as a delegate to the Continental Congress from Maryland.  After the revolution Carroll became Maryland's first United States Senator.
Box B00664: Henry Clay, Jr.Add to your cart.
Nineteenth century lawyer and politician who represented Kentucky in both houses of the United States Congress.
Box B00665: Ulysses S. GrantAdd to your cart.
Served as a Union general during the United States Civil War and received the surrender of  General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virgina at Appomattox, Virginia April 9, 1965.  Following the War Grant became the 18th President of the United States.
Box B00666: Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch  Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de LafayetteAdd to your cart.

French aristocrat who served as a general under George Washington in the American Revolutionary War.  On his return to France at the National Assembly he was appointed Commander-in-chief  of the Paris militia of  Garde nationale.  The Garde national, a reaction to the violence leading up to the French Revolution, was militia set up in many French towns whose members came from the middle class and was separate from the French Army.  As the French revolution spun out of control, Lafayette, who presented the first draft of the  "Declaration of the Rights of Man" at the National Assembly backed away.  Declared an enemy of the state by France, he tried to return to the United States.  Captured by the Austrians he spent five years in jail.

Toward the end of the French Revolution Lafayette's wife was imprisoned in France.  Adrienne de Lafayette was released in January, 1795 with the aid of James Monroe's wife Elizabeth.

Box B00667: Robert E. LeeAdd to your cart.

General and commander of the Confederate States Army of Northern Virginia during the United States Civil War.  Lee began his career in the military when he entered the United States Military Academy.  He graduated second in his class. When war broke out with Mexico, Lee was attached to General Winfield Scott. During his tour in Mexico he met Longstreet, Jackson, and Pickett who he would fight with in the Civil War  and Grant who he would surrender to at Appomattox, Virginia.

After the Civil War Lee became president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia.  The College changed its name to Washington and Lee University in 1870.

Box B00668: Abraham LincolnAdd to your cart.

Lawyer, politician, and sixteenth president of the United States.  Abraham Lincoln began his political career when he ran for the Illinois Assembly in 1832.  In 1846 was elected to the State Legislature.  He declared in 1854 his hatred of slavery because of its monstrous injustice and it deprived the American Republic of being an example to the world.  This was the year he also first ran for United States Senator from Illinois.  Though he lost he cobbled together what was left of the Wig party, those disenchanted with the Free Soil and Liberty parties, and anti slavery Democrats and influenced a new Republican party.  This party nominated him in 1858 as their candidate for United States Senator from Illinois.  His opponent was incumbent Steven Douglas. Their seven debates were widely covered and Lincoln became nationally known.  Lincoln won the 1860 election for the presidency of the United States. By the time of  Lincoln's inauguration seven Southern States had seceded from the Union.

Lincoln was assassinated April 15, 1865 - 42 days after his second inauguration and six days after General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox.

Box B00669: Thomas PaineAdd to your cart.
English-American political activist, author, political theorist, and revolutionary.  Thomas Paine wrote "Common Sense" which attacked authority of the English Crown over the American Colonies.
Box B00670: William Tecumseh ShermanAdd to your cart.
American soldier, businessman, educator and author.  Sherman served as a General in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Box B00671: George WashingtonAdd to your cart.
A "Founding Father" of the United States and the first President under the Constitution of the United States.  Washington served as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Box B00672: Walt WhitmanAdd to your cart.
Nineteenth century American poet, essayist, and journalist.
Box B00673: Daniel WebsterAdd to your cart.
American statesman and Senator from Massachusetts during the Antebellum period.  Finished, face only.
Box B00674: Daniel WebsterAdd to your cart.
American statesman and Senator from Massachusetts during the Antebellum period.  Full head, makers mark.
Box B00675: John L. SullivanAdd to your cart.
American, bare-knuckle boxer.  Sullivan is recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under London Prize Ring Rules.  He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.  Plaster mask is broken and  in several pieces.
Box B00676: Celia ThaxterAdd to your cart.
Nineteenth century American poet from Maine.
Box B00677: Jeremy BenthamAdd to your cart.
Late eighteenth early nineteenth century British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer.
Box B00678: Henry Peter Brougham. 1st Baron Brougham and VauxAdd to your cart.
Nineteenth century British statesman and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain 1834.
Box B00679: Sir Marc Isambard BrunelAdd to your cart.

Born in France in 1769, Brunel escaped to America during the French Revolution.  In the United States he was involved in linking the Hudson River with lake Champlain, a scheme that never happened.  He submitted plans for the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.  They were not selected.  In 1796 he became an American citizen and was appointed as chief engineer of New York City.

Brunel designed a way to manufacture pulley blocks used on sailing vessels.  He sailed to England to present his design to the British Admiralty.  He was made a fellow in the Royal Society and in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.  He was knighted in 1841 by Queen Victoria for his work on the Thames Tunnel.  The Thames Tunnel is in use to day as part of London's Underground system.

Box B00680: Charles XIIAdd to your cart.
Box B00681: Oliver CromwellAdd to your cart.
Box B00682: Durante Degli Alighieri "Dante"Add to your cart.
Upper face.
Box B00683: David GarrickAdd to your cart.
Box B00684: J.W. Von GoetheAdd to your cart.
Box B00685: Thomas LawrenceAdd to your cart.
Box B00686: Franz LizstAdd to your cart.
Box B00687: Duchess Louise of MecklenburgAdd to your cart.
Box B00688: Maria MalibranAdd to your cart.
Box B00689: Jean-Paul MaratAdd to your cart.
Box B00690: Felix MendelssohnAdd to your cart.
Box B00691: Thomas MooreAdd to your cart.
Box B00692: Isaac NewtonAdd to your cart.
Box B00693: Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore De RobespierreAdd to your cart.
Box B00694: Johann Christof Freedrich Von SchillerAdd to your cart.
Box B00695: Sir Walter ScottAdd to your cart.
Box B00696: Alois SenefelderAdd to your cart.
Box B00697: Laurence SterneAdd to your cart.
Box B00698: BeethovenAdd to your cart.
Eyes sculpted in. Original to McComas Collection at Western Maryland College
Box B00699: BeethovenAdd to your cart.
Death Mask.  Original to the McComas collection donated to Western Maryland College
Box B00700: BeethovenAdd to your cart.
McComas Collection originally at the Smithsonian
Box B00701: Richard SheridanAdd to your cart.
Box B00702: Napoleon BonapartAdd to your cart.
Box B00703: Richard OwenAdd to your cart.
Box B00704: Toquato TassoAdd to your cart.
Box B00705: John KeatsAdd to your cart.
McComas Collection from the Smithsonian
Box B00706: John KeatsAdd to your cart.
Original to the Western Maryland College McComas Collection
Box B00707: Antonio CanovaAdd to your cart.
Box B00708: Edmund BurkeAdd to your cart.
Original to the McComas Collection at Western Maryland College.
Box B00709: Edmund KeanAdd to your cart.
McComas Collection originally at the Smithsonian.  Irish statesman and theorist.  (1729-1797)
Box B00710: William WordsworthAdd to your cart.
English poet. (1770-1850)
Box B00711: Thomas ChalmersAdd to your cart.
Scottish Minister. (1780-1847)
Box B00712: Dante Gabriel RosettiAdd to your cart.
English poet, painter, and illustrator.(1828-1882)
Box B00713: Henry John Temple 3rd Viscount PalmerstonAdd to your cart.
Palmerston (1784-1865) English statesman. Served twice as the Prime Minister in the early 19th century.
Box B00714: Henry the IV of FranceAdd to your cart.
(1553-1610)
Box B00715: Robert BurnsAdd to your cart.
Half skull cast.  Scottish poet.  (1759-1796)
Box B00716: Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAdd to your cart.
English poet and critic. (1772-1834)
Box B00717: Lawrence BarrettAdd to your cart.
American Actor (b. 1838-d. 1891)
Box B00718: William Tecumseh ShermanAdd to your cart.
Bust
Accession 2014.22: McComas Life and Death MasksAdd to your cart.
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 WagnerAdd to your cart.
Composer.
Box B00801: Pope Pius IXAdd to your cart.
Box B00802: Frederick II, The Great of PrussiaAdd to your cart.
Box B00803: Ben CauntAdd to your cart.
Nineteenth century English bare-knuckle boxer.
Box B00804: Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de MirabeaûAdd to your cart.
French revolutionary, writer, diplomat, journalist, and French Politician.
Box B00805: Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro LeopardiAdd to your cart.
Early nineteenth century Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist.
Box B00806: Jonathan SwiftAdd to your cart.
Irish author and satirist.
Box 600200: Benjamin DisraeliAdd to your cart.
British Prime Minister  1874-1880. (b 1804-d. 1881)
Box 600440: Napoleon IIIAdd to your cart.
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 CalhounAdd to your cart.
Box 600110: John CalhounAdd to your cart.
Bust.
Box 600130: Count Camillo CavourAdd to your cart.
Italian Statesman (b. 1810- d.1861)
Box 600245: Girl from the River  SeineAdd to your cart.
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 McCullahAdd to your cart.
American actor (b.1837-d. 1885)

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[Accession 2014.22: McComas Life and Death Masks],
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