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Sadd family deeds
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Samuel Clemens family photograph album
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An album containing 38 cartes-de-visite of Samuel Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, his family, and photographs of pieces of art. There are ten studio portraits of Clemens that are dated between 1869 and 1872, four of which were taken at the same session at W. & A.H. Fry Art Photographers in Brighton. Other portraits show his children Langdon, Clara, and Susy as babies, and an older woman identified as "Grandma Ford". Following the portraits there are 12 photographs or reproductions of works of art, including four allegorical relief sculptures showing the four seasons by Bertel Thorvaldsen, and two photographs of an actress in costume, reprinted from negatives in the Brady Theatre collection. Two of the photographs are studio portraits of cats. In addition to the four photographs by W. & A.H. Fry, there are two photographs each by H.L. Bundy (Hartford, Connecticut), E.H. Paige (Buffalo, New York), Prescott & White (Hartford, Connecticut), and E. & H.T. Anthony (New York City), as well as single portraits from studios in New York, Hartford, Pennsylvania, Brighton, and Edinburgh.
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Shorb family deeds and photographs
Manuscripts
Set of three deeds and two photographs related to the Shorb family. The deeds are from James DeBarth Shorb for the Alhambra Addition Water Co./San Gabriel Wine Co. to Ynez Shorb (1887, Jan.25); James DeBarth Shorb for the San Gabriel Wine Co. to Ynez Shorb (1888, Nov.1); and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb to Stephen Stuart White (1899, Mar.17). The group also includes two photographs, one of a Shorb wedding (probably that of Ramona Shorb and James A. Murtaugh) and one of the White-Shorb wedding.
mssHM 80516-80520
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Genealogy Notes [undated]: Regarding Bennett Family. 4 items
Manuscripts
Letters, manuscripts, documents (including Connecticut and Ohio land deeds document personal and business affairs of the Adamses and their relatives, chiefly concerning land transactions; everyday life in Ohio in the middle of the nineteenth century; genealogy.
mssHM 79415-79479
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Genealogy Notes: Regarding Adams Family (1911, Apr.) 17 items
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Letters, manuscripts, documents (including Connecticut and Ohio land deeds document personal and business affairs of the Adamses and their relatives, chiefly concerning land transactions; everyday life in Ohio in the middle of the nineteenth century; genealogy.
mssHM 79415-79479
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Page and Markham families albums
Manuscripts
Box 1 HM 83502: Page family album. This scrapbook documents the Page family history from Connecticut to Pasadena, California in 1887. The contents of the scrapbook include: clippings regarding Connecticut and Pasadena social and religious activities, invitations to functions, correspondence, photographs, postcards, and pamphlets pasted in. There is a telegram from Booker T. Washington where he kindly declines Cornelia B. Page's invitation to visit Pasadena, California. The earliest item in this scrapbook was a letter written by Samuel Malty Page to his "Grandmother" in 1843. The latest clipping reports the death of Emily B. Page in 1916. Note: This scrapbook is fragile.
mssHM 83502-83504
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Cardella E. Brown letterpress copybook and autograph albums
Manuscripts
Three volumes belonging to Cardella E. Brown. The first is a letterpress copybook containing approximately 100 outgoing personal letters Brown wrote from 1859 to 1861 while he was living in Hartford, Connecticut and working as a clerk at Connecticut Mutual Insurance Company. The letters are addressed to Brown's parents, siblings, a cousin, and other family members and friends. The detailed and candid letters are written in a conversational tone devoid of usual epistolary formalities. The letters comment on a wide range of topics, including Brown's personal life and sexuality, goings on in Hartford, and state and national politics of the 1860 election year. He talks in detail about Stephen A. Douglass, the anticipated secession of South Carolina, the Buchanan administration, and the hanging of John Brown.
mssHM 83477-83479