ca. 1890
photo albums # 157,158
GUSN-188016
An album of approximately 100 photographs, seemingly documenting family travels and activities in the 1890s [included is one dated photograph of the Cambridge Commandery, 1892]. It includes several photographs purchased from or distributed by, the following photographers: Maude and Company, Los Angeles, (Western Views, California); Savage, Salt Lake City, Utah; Ironmonger, Santa Cataline, California; Slocum, San Diego, California.
Interspersed with these largely professional views are platinum prints by an amateur photographer, recording --among other subjects-- a clambake; a picnic; shorefront scenes, possibly in Maine; family gathering at a New England hotel; swanboats in the Public Garden, Boston; the interior of a jewelry store; a stone quarry. Also, what appear to be family gatherings at Plymouth Rock. Of particular interest are the photographs of a group of young back men, and a portrait of a young black boy with a smaller child, possibly made by an amateur photographer, possibly in the vicinity of Hampden, Virginia ( though this is pure speculation). Other views, connected sequentially with these, suggest a southern U. S. locale ( trees with live moss, for example). Several are identified as St. Augustine, Florida.
Overall, this is an unusual album, both for its pictorial quality, and for its unusual subject matter.
The compiler is unknown, though it seems likely to have been connected with a Cambridge [?] Mass. family active in church affairs [probably Methodist or Baptist??]. The dates may be somewhat broader than suggested by the one dated photograph of 1892.
dwellings
exterior views
interior views
landscapes (representations)
coastlines
families
African American
recreation
travel
photograph albums
black-and-white prints (photographs)
platinum prints
album number 158
1 photograph album; 11 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches
PC009
Photograph albums collection
1984
PC009.158
Gift
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Plymouth (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Maine (United States)
photograph albums
black-and-white prints (photographs)
platinum prints
Travel
Family
Clambakes
Picnics
Cambridge Commandery
Maine
Boston, Mass
Maude and Company
Savage ( Salt Lake city , Utah)
Ironmonger (Santa Catalina, CA)
Slocum ( San Diego, CA)
Public Garden, Boston, MA
St. Augustine, Florida
Item
photo albums # 157,158