Robert Beverly Price, Original Drawings of the Missouri Territory, Some Featured in The First and Second Annual Reports of th

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American History, Featuring the Property of N. Flayderman & Co. by Cowan's Auctions

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Lot Description

Lot of 100+ items.

The collection features 17 original drawings, many early sketches of the drawings used in The First and Second Annual Reports of the Geological Survey of Missouri, ranging in size from 11 x 9.5 in. to 17.5 x 11 in., signed and annotated by Robert Beverly Price, held in an art portfolio stamped R.B. Price.

Accompanied by a copy of The First and Second Annual Reports of the Geological Survey of Missouri; 60 letters between Price, his wife, and other members of his family as well as business associates spanning from 1861 to 1918; a Missouri broadsheet titled “Francis” Platform. The Democratic Nominee for Mayor Defines His Position, published by the St. Louis Dispatch, March 1885.

Photographs include a sixth plate ambrotype of a young R.B. Price; oval salt print featuring a honeymoon portrait of Price and his wife; a CDV- sized tintype of R.B. Price, his second wife, and other family members; cabinet card of an aging Price taken by a photographer in Paris; 7 CDVs of members of the Price family; 6 mounted photographs of Price including one with his family lounging on their lawn in front of a tennis court, ca 1900s; sixth plate oval ambrotype of Price's daughter Florence holding her bottle and sixth plate ambrotype of Florence seated in a chair; quarter plate tintype of all of Price’s children, including Edwin, Emma, and Florence, taken in 1864; salt print after a daguerreotype of Dr. Edwin Price, R.B. Price’s father, along with a pamphlet with his obituary; 4 silver gelatin photographs housed in hanging wall frames, featuring portraits of Pugh Williamson and others that were gifted to William and Mary College in 1943 with correspondence from the college as well as other genealogical paperwork; newspaper clippings concerning the Price family; and more.

Robert Beverly Price was born in Charlotte county, VA, October 17, 1832. His father, Dr. Edwin Price, was a practicing physician who weighed nearly three hundred pounds. Despite his weight, he followed his family from Virginia to Missouri in a large elliptical spring carriage filled with household goods. They settled in Missouri in the late 1830s. Dr. Price sent Robert to the University of Missouri where he studied engineering and geology. He used his degree with his first occupation as a draftsman for the State Geological Survey, under professor G.C. Swallow. Under the influence of his first father-in-law, Moss Prewitt, he entered banking and opened and operated the Boone County National Bank, one of the most profitable banks in the area. In addition to banking he once owned the Wabash Railroad line between Columbia and Centralia in addition to building and operating the first electric lighting and waterworks system in Columbia. (Information obtained from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law Website, March 15, 2017.)
For more information on Price and his accomplishments please visit: http://law.missouri.edu/bowman/map_pages/price_home.html

Provenance: Cosigner purchased the archive directly from the Price family descendants.

Condition

Items range in condition, most are very good with some toning and minor surface damage.
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