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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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Unidentified family photograph album
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A commercially produced carte-de-visite photograph album compiled by an unidentified person containing cartes-de-visite, tintype, and cabinet card portraits of men, women, and children. Photographers imprints are from the East Coast including Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut. There are also five additional loose card photographs: a portrait of United States President James A. Garfield, captioned "Our Late President," and one of his wife, Lucretia Garfield by "Pell"; photographs of a family in front of a log-cabin house and a two-story house; and a photograph by S. Marksville of people standing in the front of the C.C. Lass shop, presumably in New York, with an Indian statue on the sidewalk and illustrated newspaper covers displayed in the windows.
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Bullard family album with portrait of Eunice White (Bullard) Beecher
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An album featuring a hand-colored albumen print based on a miniature of a young Eunice White (Bullard) Beecher, author and wife of Henry Ward Beecher. The print by photographer Augustus Morand was made approximately 1860s and is on a carte-de-visite mount. Handwriting on the back reads: "Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, taken from a miniature when she was 18 years old." The Bullard family album contains 45 additional cartes-de-visite and cabinet photographs dating from approximately 1860s to 1880s. Most people are unidentified, though three identified people were cousins of Eunice: Clara G. Bullard, daughter of William Reed Bullard; and two children, Florence May Wyman and Arthur Wyman, whose parents were Charles F. Wyman and Helen Knight (Bullard) Wyman. Visible imprints identify photographic studios in Boston, New York, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.
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Thomas Nast family photograph album
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Studio portraits of German-American cartoonist Thomas Nast, his wife Sarah Edwards Nast, and their five children, Julia, Thomas Jr., Edith, Mabel, and Cyril. There are 3 portraits of Nast, including a 3/4-length standing portrait in a fur-trimmed coat, and 6 portraits of Sarah at various ages. The children are pictured from childhood to adulthood, except the youngest, Cyril, who is only seen as a boy. The portraits were primarily made by photographers E. G. Lacey and Mrs. E. G. Lacey in Morristown, New Jersey, and Napoleon Sarony in New York City. There are a few unidentified photographs of children, including two tintypes of a baby, and a copy photograph of a man posed with a beer tankard. A few photographs have dates handwritten on the backs.
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Kawakami family photograph album
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A photograph album depicting a Japanese American family in California in the pre-internment period, along with portraits of Japanese family members. There isn't any writing in the album, but one photograph is inscribed "To Mr. S. Kawakami," who may be the compiler. The album begins with formal portraits of family groups in traditional Japanese dress that were most likely taken in Japan. A photograph of a young child laid into the album has Japanese printing on it, and there are a few pressed flowers in the album. Other images show Japanese Americans in California, including the University of California, Berkeley campus; a large group in front of the Berkeley Buddhist Temple on Channing Way, Berkeley; Ocean Park Pier in Santa Monica; downtown Los Angeles; Santa Barbara Mission; and San Francisco. Three images depict a sumo wrestling match that may have taken place in California.
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Beecher family papers
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Correspondence between Mary Ward Beecher and Louis H.D. Crane; Mary's letters to her friends and relatives, a volume of her poetry, three sermons and poem by William Henry Beecher, miscellaneous letters, family photographs and ephemera.
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