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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.

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death masks
life masks
Masks (Sculpture)

Administrative Information

Repository: McDaniel College

Accruals: 2012.13, copies of the comdemnation  records from the Smithsonian.

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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 2013.13: Copies of Smithsonian accession and condemnation records for the McComas Collection., 1955-1975 and 2013],
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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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