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Last Name Sinclair

Given Name Thomas S.

alt. Names T. S. S. ;

Marriage

Children lithographer Thomas Sinclair Jr. ;

Year born 1805 c. on Orkney Islands

Year died 1881

Place of death Philadelphia, PA

Father's occupation

Relatives brother: William B. Sinclair publ.

Education lithography in Edinburgh

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for James Deane: Ichnogr.1861; ED Cope: Batrachia 1876; SH Scudder; John Cassin: US Naval Astron Surv S Hemisphere 1855; Charles Léo Lesquereux (1806-89); Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859); Isaac Lea: Exotic Genera 1858-9; EB Andrews, Edward Orton, TG Wormley, FB Meek: Geol.Surv.Ohio 1873/75; FV Hayden

Patronage US Geological Survey 1875 & 1884; US Geographical Surveys 1878; Trans.Amer.Phil.Soc.v.12; J Acad.Nat.Sci.Phila.1839-42;

Collaborators Matthias S. Weaver; A. Frey; J.L. Magee; predecessor John Collins; artists: William Dreser, Cecilia Beaux, HJ Morgan ;

Techniques geological and paleontological chromolithography (10 stones) ;

Sample(s) http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_803333 ;

Archival sources http://books.google.de/books?id=FCIGDt2ccq8C&pg=PA184&lpg=PA184&dq=%22Thomas+Sinclair%22+%2Bengraving&source=bl&ots=QuC0DPvaMs&sig=-nEdEYv_gt85_uZ3kZu

Published sources AKL ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustr. 1969/78 #958 ; Langer 1978 # 6667 ; Blum 1993; Bridson 2003:189; Davidson 2008: 76-7, 80-2, 86 ;

other New York in mid 1830s; on Sinclair & Son Lith., Philadelphia, see Edwin GTroxwell Freedley: Philadelphia and its Manufacturers 1858; worked for med.bot. expeditionist Joseph Trimble Rothrock (1839-1922) ; Fielding Bradford Meek (1817-1876)

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