Emmet Collection of Manuscripts Etc. Relating to American History: Quebec City

Quebec, 1733

Quebec in 1775.

A view of the bishop's house with the ruins as they appear in going down the hill, from the upper to lower town [Quebec], 1777-1890

Quebec from the opposite shore of the St. Laurence, 1777-1890

View of Prescot Gate, and the Bishops Palace, on the top of Mountain Street, Quebec., 1777-1890

The Plains of Abraham, near Quebec, 1657

Der General Wolf, 1777-1890

Quebec, from the Old Mill, River St. Charles, 1777-1890

A view of the fall of Montmorenci and the attack made by General Wolfe, on the French intrenchments near Beauport, with the grenadiers of the army, July 31, 1759.

A view of the City of Quebec, 1657

A view of the fall of Montmorenci and the attack made by General Wolfe, 1657

A view of the north west part of the City of Quebec, taken from St. Charles's River, 1761

Quebec.

Quebec from the Chaudier. Sun setting.

Vue du Cap-Diamant.

Quebec from Cape Diamond.

Quebec, from the old mill, River St. Charles, 1881

A view of the City of Quebec, the capital of Canada, 1777-1890

Quebec in 1775.

General view of Quebec, 1810

View of Quebec, the Capital of British America, 1820

A view of Quebec from the Bason.

A perspective view of the city of Quebec, the capital of Canada.

COLLECTION HISTORY

The images in this digital presentation offer an extensive array of visual documentation-in portraits, scenes, and views-of the people, places, and events that shaped the new American nation. They represent a holding of 10,240 visual items that is part of even larger collection of some 30,000 items assembled by the New York physician Thomas Addis Emmet (1828-1919), and donated to the Library in 1896 by trustee John Stewart Kennedy. Emmet developed a passionate interest in American history after a boyhood visit to Philadelphia, when he first saw the original Declaration of Independence, and went on to collect, for some fifty years, drawings, engravings, maps, and manuscripts relating to the American Revolution and the early history of the United States.

BACKGROUND

Like other 19th-century collectors, Emmet presented his pictorial Americana as "extra-illustrations," binding them, in his case, into classic American history texts to illustrate relevant passages and to enrich the texts visually and intellectually. In the same way, he also assembled images and manuscripts to document the published proceedings of the Albany Congress and the Continental Congress.

Other portions of the Emmet Collection not offered in this digital presentation are manuscripts, in the Manuscripts and Archives Division, and maps, in the Map Division.

RELATED RESOURCES

Emmet, Thomas Addis. Incidents of My Life; Professional--Literary--Social, with Services in the Cause of Ireland. (1911)

Goffe, James Riddle. "In memoriam, Thomas Addis Emmet ... 1828-1919." Transac. of the Amer. Gynecological Soc. v.44 (1919)

NYPL. Calendar of the Emmet Collection of Manuscripts etc. Relating to American History (1900)