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1852-1853: Washington, D.C
Manuscripts
The Clark family correspondence accumulated by Mrs. Clark and her side of the family. Also included is a genealogical chart and a family history written in 1942 by Julia Lincoln Ray Andrews. The bulk of the collection consists of Lincoln Clark's letters to his wife written during his many absences riding circuit in Alabama, trips back east, their two year separation between 1846 and 1848, his stay in Washington in 1852-1853, and his business travels in the 1850s and 1860s. The letters discuss Lincoln Clark's professional and political career; Mrs. Clark's work at home and involvement in charities, their religious feelings, their children's upbringing and education, the fate of their slaves; financial troubles, especially in the wake of the 1857 panic, the Civil War, the U.S. Sanitary Commission, etc. Also included are five letters written between 1854 and 1861 by Frederick Clark and his wife Charlotte, Lincoln Clark's former slaves who immigrated to Liberia in 1856. Also included is correspondence of Mrs. Clark's parents and grandparents, her sisters Dorothy Williams Smith Holbrook, Rachel Bardwell Smith Holbrook, and Catharine Amelia Smith Jones, a cousin Caroline W. Porter, and her daughters. William Williams's letter written in 1758 to his then sweetheart Dorothy Ashley dicusses the proper relationship of faith and reason; a long letter of Feb. 1, 1800, describes, in great detail, the passage by the Massachusetts legislature of the Act Providing for Public Worship of God, which Williams had sponsored. The 1816 letter from a cousin, Sarah T. Williams Newton, wife of Edward Augustus Newton (1785-1862) from Calcutta discusses Christian missionaries in India and Indian society. The letters from Julia Annah Clark Ray describe her studies at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn.
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Sacred to the memory of the illustrious G. Washington
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Print honors the recently deceased George Washington. On the right side of the print is an obelisk with an small oval portrait of George Washington (based on Gilbert Stuart's "Vaughn" portrait). Beneath the portrait is the text: "G. Washington. / There is / rest in / Heaven." To the left of the obelisk, a man and a woman weep. Behind them is a woman, symbolizing Hope, with an anchor propped against her and her index finger raised to the sky. The image is enclosed within a double circular border.
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Clark Kinsey photograph of Japanese lumber camp workers and their families in Washington
Visual Materials
A group portrait of lumber camp workers of Japanese heritage, and their families, in front of a camp building with railroad tracks at the doorstep. The gelatin silver photograph, 11 x 14 inches, depicts 31 men, three women, several young children and babies, and a dog. A few men are holding babies and one man is posed holding a watering can above a flowering planter box. Handwriting at the bottom of the print reads: "This is All Japanese Boys at Camp" and the photographer's credit is in the negative: # 65 Kinsey Photo. These loggers worked for the Manley-Moore Lumber Company, which operated approximately 1910 to 1934 on a tract of old growth timber in Pierce County, Washington. (Source: Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection, University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.)
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