Dana MacBean Collection

915 THL

Inventory created by Archives Staff 5/2020. Last revised 02/2021.

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS: Collection is open to all researchers.                       

USE RESTRICTIONS: Restrictions may apply concerning the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a member of the archives staff for information concerning these restrictions. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright.

EXTENT: 0.21 linear feet

CREATOR: MacBean, Dana

DATE: 2006 - 2019

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Dana MacBean Collection contains research materials collected by MacBean as part of research into the James E. Taylor Sketchbook, which is a collection of first-hand sketches of the Shenandoah Valley in the Civil War.  The items include maps, papers, and images.

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL: Dana MacBean is a topographer, cartographer, photographer, and historian who has researched the James E. Taylor Sketchbook extensively.  The Sketchbook is available in the Archives, call number 973.737 Tay.

James Edward Taylor (1839-1901) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied to be an illustrator in New York. At the start of the Civil War, he served two years as a sergeant in the Tenth New York Volunteers. During this period, he began making illustrations of the War and, in 1863, the Illustrated Newspaper hired him an artist. He drew illustrations for General Philip Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign in August 1864, and later followed the armies of Generals Benjamin Butler and William Tecumseh Sherman.

CITE AS: Dana MacBean Collection, 915 THL, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Acquired as a gift.

ORGANIZATION:

BOX 1

James E Taylor Sketchbook research 2016-2019, typescript, unnumbered pages (folder contains the following):

Kernstown Battlefield Association announcement “Dancing along the Deadline” with Stockade map dedicated to all American Prisoners of War, 2019
Selection of Battlefield maps
“James E. Taylor: Artist of the Civil War,” Pat Brennen, 2016
“The James E. Taylor Sketchbook: With Sheridan up the Shenandoah Valley in 1864: Leaves from a Diary of Special Artists Sketch Book and Diary,” MacBean/Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Foundation, 2019
“James E. Taylor, Artist of the Civil War,” MacBean & Brennen: ch. 10 selection of photographs and Taylor sketches, ch. 10 index, maps, photographs

“Retracing Steps,” by Dana R MacBean, promotional video, companion to James E Taylor Sketchbook, c. 2006, DVD