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Hamlin family collection of photographs

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Description: 45 portrait photographs of Hamlin and Besse family members, cousins, and friends, most unidentified. Most of the portraits are carte-de-visite size with photographers' studio stamps from Sterling, Illinois, and elsewhere in Illinois, Iowa, and the United States. Ten of the cartes-de-visite depict popular genre scenes and paintings. Some items depict or were owned by Frank G. Besse and Eva May Besse.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1850s-approximately 1860s.
Call number: photCL 523
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Peggy (Thornton) Hamlin, May 2012.
Dimensions: chiefly about 10 x 6 cm (carte-de-visite format)
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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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Photographs of extended family

Manuscripts

Carte-de-visite portrait of E.W. Benson; portrait of A.C. Benson; film negative of portrait of Captain White Benson (possible ancestor?) and two photographs of the family of Janet Esdaile Woods, 1945-1946.

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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.

photCL 688

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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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Photographs of family, relatives, and friends

Manuscripts

18 pieces. Chiefly carte-de-visite and card photographs of young women and children, as well as the exterior of "The Adams Place, Bethel, Vermont," a photograph of four women on camels in front of Egyptian pyramids, 1925, and two photographs of the interior of a sitting room with a mural over the fireplace.

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Unidentified family carte-de-visite album

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A photograph album of carte-de-visite studio portraits and a few tintypes of men, women, and children. There are no identifications in the album, but a name was found written in ink on the back of the first photograph: William B. Leach, in a portrait by Alexander Hesler, Chicago, Ill. Imprints seen on several other photographs are from studios in Aurora and Elgin, Illinois. There are two portraits of young men in Civil War soldier's uniforms.

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Hamlin family collection of photographs

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