Small archive of drawings, photographs and etchings

by a American missionary in Liberia in the 1860s by Benjamin Hartley

$3,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

14 items, as listed below. Loose. Item #368785 Benjamin Hartley 1837-1912 , a Scottish born artist, was educated at the Theological Seminary in Gambier, Ohio, and traveled to West Africa in 1864 as a missionary. There, he met and married Emily Griswold 1838-1906 . Hartley sketched, painted and photographed the landscape and peoples of Africa until 1867, when the couple returned to the United States. Hartley's scrapbooks and sketchbooks are

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