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Photograph album

Description: The photograph album contains 42 cabinet cards of Shugart and Overturf families, from the 1850s to the 1890s. Only a few are identified and none are dated. It looks like two cabinet cards fell out at some point and the edges around some of the cabinet cards are ripped, making it possible for more to come loose.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1850s-1890s
Call number: mssShugart
Creator: Shugart, Zachariah T (1805-1881)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased by William Reese Company on behalf of The Huntington from Swann Galleries Sale 2517, Lot 205, September 2019.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Photograph album 1850s-1890s

Manuscripts

The photograph album contains 42 cabinet cards of Shugart and Overturf families, from the 1850s to the 1890s. Only a few are identified and none are dated. It looks like two cabinet cards fell out at some point.

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Photographs

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The 46 loose photographs in the collection are mostly unidentified and undated. The dates for the photographs are the 1860s to approximately 1900. It is assumed the individuals in the photographs are Shugart family members. There is one daguerreotype of Zachariah T. Shugart. There are two tintypes of unknown men (one standing with a bicycle). The rest are cabinet cards by various photography studios, mostly in Iowa. The photography studios heavily represented are: Boyd, Des Moines, Iowa; J. L. Hudson and Hudson's Gallery, Tama City, Iowa; J. S. Moore, Toledo, Iowa; J. B. Scholl, Chicago; and I. L. Townsend, Iowa Falls, Iowa.

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Diaries and Bible

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The diaries consist of two volumes kept by Zachariah Shugart. The first is a diary Shugart kept from January to September 1867 while running a drugstore in Belle Plaine, Iowa. The second diary, kept from September to October 1880, documents a trip Shugart took to Ohio and Indiana. The Bible is a pocket edition of the New Testament published in 1853. It has a pencil note on flyleaf, in Shugart's hand: "A. Shugart, [illegible word] Bureau Co., Ill." and "Princeton, Ill. Bureau Co."

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Zachariah T. Shugart papers

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Collection of Shugart family papers and photographs dating from 1838 to approximately 1900, most likely preserved by Shugart's widow, Suzanna, and the family of his daughter Lucinda. The collection includes an account book kept by Zachariah T. Shugart from 1838 to 1853, which contains a 10-page list of names of 137 enslaved men, women, and children who he, and his associate Stephen Bogue, helped escape to Canada. There are also two diaries by Shugart, Civil War letters by Joseph Shugart, one land indenture, a pocket New Testament, 46 photographs, a photograph album, ephemera and newspaper clippings.

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