1870-1890
GUSN-268462
A family album of cabinet photos and cartes de visite from the 1870s-1890s, with a few from earlier periods. Photographers from San Francisco, New York, Boston, Quincy, Reading and Cambridge are represented.
Boston photographers are John Adams Whipple, Babb (unclear whether George W. or Joseph Babb), Cooke (?) and Dunshee (unclear which Dunshee). Augustus Frank Bussell is the Quincy photographer. Emilus J. Randall is from Reading, and Warren's is the Cambridge photographer.
Although most of the photographs are of individuals, there are a few of family groups. There are also portraits of Abraham Lincoln and family, Sarah Bernhardt, Tom Thumb and his wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton. Most are in good condition. Of interest are a visiting card with a gem tintype portrait on it and a portrait taken by Baldwin Coolidge. There are also many photographs of the Sumner family. However, many photos in the album are unidentified.
families
presidents
singers
actors
dwarfs
portraits
wives
photograph albums
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
tintypes (prints)
cabinet photographs
visiting cards
1 photograph album
PC009
Photograph albums collection
PC009.078
Gift
Gift of Katherine Sumner Gould
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Reading (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Quincy (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
San Francisco (San Francisco county, California)
New York City (New York state)
Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891 (Photographer)
Bussell, Augustus Frank (Photographer)
Randall, Emilus J. (Photographer)
Warrens (Firm) (Photographer)
Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928 (Photographer)
photograph albums
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
tintypes (prints)
cabinet photographs
visiting cards
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883
Magri, M. Lavinia (Mercy Lavinia), 1841-1919
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