Lemuel Punderson
Lemuel Punderson (October 20, 1824 – October 11, 1910) was an engraver and printer in the United States. He worked in New York City and then New Haven, Connecticut.[1] Yale University has a collection of his papers.[1] He did engravings from daguerrotype photographs.
Members of the Punderson family were among New Haven's earliest settlers. John Punderson was recorded as the last living in the city in 1904.[2]
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The book on the history and antiquities of New Haven he and John Warner Barber published in 1856 included an engraving of John Davenport.[3] He also made an engraving of Yale College campus in New Haven showing trees and buildings on the campus. Punderson made an 1855 engraving of Matthew Fontaine Maury.[4]
Punderson died in Springfield, Massachusetts and is buried at Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven.[citation needed]
Bibliography
[edit]- History and antiquities of New Haven, Conn., from its earliest settlement to the present time. With biographical sketches and statistical information of the public institutions, &c., &c. by L.S. Punderson and John Warner Barber, New Haven (1856)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Collection: Lemuel Swift Punderson papers | Archives at Yale".
- ^ https://www.newhavenmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/MSS-135.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Portrait of John Davenport · My cms". www.bethanyconnecticuthistory.com.
- ^ "Matthew Fontaine Maury". NYPL Digital Collections.