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Portraits of Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher

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    Harriet Beecher Stowe portrait

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    A cabinet photograph of an older Harriet Beecher Stowe, showing her in profile, taken approximately 1880s by photographer George H. Hastings, Boston, Massachusetts. Signed by Stowe on the lower front mount, below the image.

    photCL 688

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    Harriet Beecher Stowe collection

    Manuscripts

    A collection of short stories, poems, and letters. The majority of the collection are stories written for children including Little Pussy Willow, Parts I-XVI; Queer Little People; and Uncle Abel and Little Edward. There is also a small number of letters written to Stowe's publisher, James Ripley Osgood.

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    Harriet Beecher Stowe collection

    Manuscripts

    A collection of short stories, poems, and letters. The majority of the collection are stories written for children including Little Pussy Willow, Parts I-XVI; Queer Little People; and Uncle Abel and Little Edward. There is also a small number of letters written to Stowe's publisher, James Ripley Osgood.

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    Storrs - Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Manuscripts

    Manuscripts

    The collections consist primarily of letters from various American and British authors to James Fields, mostly relating to publication of their manuscripts by his firm Ticknor and Fields and in The Atlantic monthly. The collection, and especially the addenda, also includes letters to Annie Fields concerning literary matters. There are also poems, manuscripts, and correspondence by and about the following individuals: Thomas Aldrich, Charlotte Cushman, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jessie Benton Frémont, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Lucy Larcom, Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott (better known by her pen name Grace Greenwood), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Helena Modjeska, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Booker T. Washington and John Greenleaf Whittier. The collection also contains essays, notes, speeches, notebooks, photographs, and articles. The collections chiefly deal with the activities of Ticknor and Fields, as well as Fields' and his wife's own literary efforts. The following authors are subjects in the collections: Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Milton and Percy Shelley. Presidential items in this collection include John Adams autograph bill for legal services to Thomas Pratt, 1767 October 14 (FI 5102) and two autograph letters signed from William H. Taft to Annie Adams Fields, 1914 February? and 1914 March 10 (FI 4098, FI 4099).

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    Beecher family photograph collection

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    A collection of five photographs of various Beecher family members in five different photographic formats: ambrotype, albumen print, carte-de-visite, cabinet photograph, and a hand-colored salted paper print. A portrait of Lyman Beecher produced by Mathew Brady in 1856 is a combination of watercolor, ink, and pencil added to the surface of a salted paper print. There are two variants of a Beecher family group portrait taken in 1859 depicting Lyman Beecher and nine of his adult children; one is a large albumen print and the other an ambrotype. Also included are an autographed cabinet photograph of an older Harriet Beecher Stowe; and a hand-colored Augustus Morand print based on a miniature of a young Eunice White (Bullard) Beecher, author and wife of Henry Ward Beecher. This carte-de-visite portrait is within a Bullard family album containing 45 additional cartes-de-visite and cabinet photographs. Only a few portraits in the album are identified, including some cousins of Eunice Bullard.

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    Henry Ward Beecher stereograph

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    A photograph of Henry Ward Beecher in stereograph form. The image is a studio portrait of Beecher at the peak of his celebrity, photographed by Napoleon Sarony, who sold the image as part of his "stereo celebrities" series, as noted on the mount.

    photPF 26008