This subseries contains photograph portraits of various members of the Carnegie, Channing, Curtis, Endicott, and Higginson families, among others. Included are photographs of portrait artwork. There are also a number of unidentified portraits taken by David Hinkle of Germantown, Pa., ca. 1870-1880.

This subseries contains photographic views of various places, including Amsterdam; England; the Garden of the Gods in Colorado; New Hampshire; and various mounted snapshot photographs of Boston, taken in June 1900 by an unknown photographer. There is also one small booklet of chromolithographs entitled "Souvenir of the Beautiful Mississippi River" and published ca. 1913. Most of the photographers are unidentified. Include are film transparencies.

This subseries contains snapshot photographs of an unidentified family, taken ca. 1898-1904. The photographs depict a family farm on the shores of Pennesseewassee Lake in Maine, as well as various family members and views of the surrounding area, most unidentified. One photograph was taken by Jack Wister; the other photographers are unidentified.

This subseries contains photographs of paintings, taken ca. 1880 by unidentified commercial photographers. Included is one small bound booklet of photographic reproductions of paintings by Rembrandt, entitled "Souvenir de Rembrandt."

This subseries contains oversize photographs of various people associated with the Colonial Society, including William Francis Channing, William Henry Channing, and George Peabody, among others. There are also portraits of other public figures such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Daniel Webster. Most of the photographers are unidentified.

This subseries contains one oversize view of the Fisher family house in New Bedford, Mass. It was taken ca. 1870-1880 by an unidentified photographer.

This subseries contains oversize, mounted copy photographs of Underwood & Underwood news photos, originally taken ca. 1919-1935. These photographs are all identified as having come from the Addison Gallery of Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. and were probably created for an exhibit there in 1943. Subjects include women marching for suffrage, labor strikes, the Depression, Prohibition, factories and industry, World War I, and other major events of the early 20th century.

This subseries contains oversize photographs taken by the celebrated photographers Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) and Berenice Abbott (1898-1991). There are two photographs by Bourke-White that depict the Ford Factory in River Rouge, Mich. and machinery at the American Woolen Company, as well as two photographs of a lumberjack and a felled tree taken by Berenice Abbott for the Red River Lumber Company.

This subseries contains oversize, mounted copy photographs of political cartoons, originally dating from ca. 1870-1921. The photographer is unknown.

This subseries contains a mounted photograph of a painting entitled "Monitor and Merrimac," painted in 1883 by Warren Shepard. The photographer is unknown.

This volume contains snapshot photographs of an unidentified family, taken ca. 1898-1904. The photograph depict a family farm near Pennessewassee Lake in Maine, as well as views of the surrounding area and various family members. The photographer is unknown. Loose photographs removed from the volume are stored with the volume.

This oversize volume contains mounted photographs of members of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, collected between 1893-1896. Some pages contain autographs only. The photographers are all unknown, as are the dates of the photographs, except where indicated. There are a number of blank pages at the end of the volume that are marked with the names of members who did not contribute photographs or autographs.