Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss (1820-1905)

Content Description Drawing of David Hunter Strother by Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) (5 1/2 in. by 8 1/2 in.). Strother is in the company of General John Pope, on whose staff he served as a topographer (while commissioned a Lt. Col. of the 3rd West Virginia Cavalry) from June to August, 1862. Also includes source document from Anderson Galleries establishing provenance from an auction in 1903. This collection also includes two prints of Harpers Ferry entitled "Harpers Ferry (From the Potomac side)" by...

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Letters from West Virginia's first Commissioner of Immigration to Governor John J. Jacobs and the Board of Public Works. Letters deal with political intrigues for the commissionership, the dissemination of the “West Virginia Handbook and Immigration Guide,” and the publication of Diss Debar's “West Virginia Monitor and Real Estate Advertiser.”

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Typescript copy of a letter from J. H. Diss Debar, as Secretary of State Immigration and Relief Society of West Virginia, from Parkersburg, to John Wanstreet, St. Clara Colony, Deddridge County, concerning the sale of lots and issuing deeds to the purchasers.

Overview Sketchbook of Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905), a French-born American artist and the first commissioner of immigration for West Virginia. Sketchbook includes clipping of an article about Debar (1931) as well as artworks by Debar. Artworks include mostly pencil and pen sketches, as well as some watercolors. Most of his work is labeled with subject and year, and has been pasted into the sketchbook. Subjects are generally landscapes and portraits. Sections of the sketchbook include: "In...