ca. 1840-1946
Guide to the Photograph Collection
Abstract
This collection contains photographs of the related Saltonstall, Brooks, and Lewis families, taken between ca. 1840 and 1946. It includes family portraits, travel photographs, and family snapshots, as well as Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall's work with the Red Cross in France during World War I, among many other subjects.
Biographical Sketch
Peter Chardon Brooks (1831-1920), the son of Gorham Brooks (1795-1855) and Ellen (Shepherd) (1809-1884), was born at Watertown (now Belmont), Mass., 8 May 1831. He prepared for college under Samuel Eliot and was admitted to Harvard in Aug. 1848, graduating in 1852. He devoted himself largely to agriculture, forestry, and art, and was a trustee for valuable estates. He also traveled extensively. He lived for many years on Arlington Street in Boston, then on Bay State Road. The family had a large summer estate, "Point of Rocks," at West Medford. Peter Chardon Brooks married Sarah Lawrence (1845-1915), daughter of Amos Adams Lawrence (1814-1886) and Sarah Elizabeth (Appleton) Lawrence (1822-1891). Sarah Lawrence Brooks was an amateur and prolific photographer. She had six siblings: Marianne Appleton Lawrence (1843-1882); Amory Appleton Lawrence (b. 1848); William Lawrence (1850-1941), who was elected a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Massachusetts in 1893; Susan Mason Lawrence (b. 1852); Hetty Sullivan Lawrence (1855-1931); and Harriet Dexter Lawrence (b. 1858). Sarah Lawrence and Peter Chardon Brooks had two children: Eleanor (b. 1867) and Lawrence (b. 1868).
Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall (1867-1961) was the daughter of Sarah Lawrence (1845-1915) and Peter Chardon Brooks. She married, in 1891, Richard Middlecott Saltonstall (1859-1922), son of Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895) and Rose Smith (Lee) Saltonstall, and also a descendant of Sir Richard Saltonstall (1586-1661). The couple had four children: Leverett (1892-1979), Eleanor "Nora" (1894-1919), Muriel Gurdon (1896-1990) and Richard (1897-1979). Leverett Saltonstall served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1923-1927, as speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1929-1937, as governor of Massachusetts from 1939-1945, and as U.S. senator from Massachusetts from 1945-1967. His sister, Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall, served overseas with the Red Cross for about a year during World War I. Upon her return, she traveled through the western U.S. on an auto camping trip, during which she contracted typhoid fever and died in late July 1919.
Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis (1896-1990), the third child of Eleanor (Brooks) and Richard Middlecott Saltonstall (1859-1922), was an avid horsewoman and yachtswoman. She married, in 1926, George Lewis (1887-1952), a graduate of Harvard and also an avid horseman. They made their home in Sherborn, Mass. The couple had two children: Eleanor Saltonstall (b. 1928) and George (b. 1931). Eleanor Saltonstall Lewis married Levin H. Campbell (b. 1927).
Collection Description
The Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family photographs contains 3,676 photographs in 5 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and 37 volumes. The collection dates from between ca. 1840 and 1945 and consists mostly of formal portrait and informal snapshot photographs of various members of the Saltonstall, Brooks, and Lewis families.
Seven boxes contain loose photographs dating from ca. 1840-1938 and consisting mostly of portraits of various members of the Saltonstall, Brooks, and Lewis families. Subjects of the portraits include Lawrence Brooks, Sarah Lawrence Brooks, George Lewis, Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall, Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, and Richard Middlecott Saltonstall, among many others. There are also a number of loose views depicting the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Brooks family estate in West Medford, Mass., and Boston, Mass., among many other places. Many of these photographs were taken by Sarah Lawrence Brooks. Additionally, there are also several photographs of artwork, ships, and automobiles.
Thirty-seven volumes of photograph albums, dating from ca. 1850-1935, mostly contain formal portraits and informal snapshot of various members of the Saltonstall, Brooks, Lawrence, and Lewis families. There are also a number of volumes of photographs taken by Sarah Lawrence Brooks of views of family homes in West Medford, Groton, and Wareham, Mass., as well as portraits she took of family members. Additionally, the volumes also contain photographs depicting Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall's service with the Red Cross in France in World War I; Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis's wedding to George Lewis in 1926; the family life and U.S. travels of the Richard Middlecott Saltonstall family; Lawrence Brooks's travels abroad and in the western U.S. (including photographs taken by novelist Owen Wister); and the dedication of the Founder's Monument in Watertown, Mass. in 1935, among other subjects.
This collection includes tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, stereographs, and other paper-based photographs. There are also a number of glass-based photographs (daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, opaque glass photographs, and lantern slides), all of which are stored apart from this collection by format (see the Photograph List for details). The daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and opaque glass photographs depict members of the Brooks, Lawrence, and Saltonstall families, among others. The lantern slides depict views of Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall's gardens in Chestnut Hill, Mass., ca. 1933.
Studio photographers represented in this collection include photographers James Wallace Black, Augustus Marshall, James Notman, John Adams Whipple, and Allen & Rowell, all of Boston, Mass.; George Kendall Warren of Boston, Mass.; and the Keystone View Company, among many others. Amateur photographers represented in the collection include Charlotte Allen, Lawrence Brooks, Sarah Lawrence Brooks, Margaret Coe Cunningham, and Owen Wister.
Acquisition Information
The Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family photographs were removed from the Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family papers (Ms. N-368). The collection was deposited at the Massachusetts Historical Society by Eleanor Campbell in Feb. 1993 and given to the Society in Sep. 2000.
Processing Note
Fifty-eight loose photographs and one photograph album (Vol. 43) were found stored apart from the collection in May 2004 and were added to the collection and finding aid. The loose photographs that were added at this time are identified by the addition of a letter after their call number (example: Photo. #33.191c).
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Loose photographs
A. Glass-based photographs
Arranged alphabetically by name.
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After a photograph by John Adams Whipple (Boston, Mass.) taken in April 1870. See Photo. #33.197a.
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THESE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE RESTRICTED. Glass plate negatives, glass plate positives, and lantern slides of any size are not available for research use. Consult the Reference Librarian for more information.
B. Portraits
Organized into two groups (Individual portraits and Group portraits) and arranged alphabetically by name.
Individual portraits
Includes duplicate cartes de visite.
Inscribed with Lord North's signature.
Loose photograph removed from Vol. 9.
Includes duplicate photograph.
Snapshot of man diving from diving board into a pool, with audience in background.
Group portraits
Includes envelope inscribed with information about the tintype.
Envelope is inscribed, "Aug. 6 1872/ Nahant."
Envelope is inscribed, "August 1872/ Nahant."
Includes one duplicate photograph (cropped).
Outdoors images from her trip to Arizona.
Outdoor photograph of a wedding carriage.
Stereographs of unidentified family wedding.
Taken at Thanksgiving gathering.
Includes stereograph and tintype.
C. Views
Arranged alphabetically by place.
Views of Salisbury.
Photo. #33.302 is hand-colored.
D. Objects
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Apparent wreck of vessel John Endicott.
E. Oversize photographs
Organized into four groups: Oversize individual portraits, arranged alphabetically by name; Oversize group portraits, arranged alphabetically by name; Views, arranged alphabetically by location; and Objects.
Oversize individual portraits
Group portraits
Views
Objects
F. Loose photographs removed from photograph albums
Arranged by album number.
II. Photographs in albums
This series contains 36 volumes of photographs.
The albums are arranged by the order of their original numbers.
A. Vol. 1. Carte de visite album, ca. 1850-1872.
This volume contains carte de visite portraits of celebrated American and European figures, as well as various Saltonstall and Brooks family members. Subjects include members of the Bonaparte family, Edward Everett, John Quincy Adams (1833-1894), Henry Adams (1838-1918), Nathaniel Silsbee, Mary Crowninshield Silsbee, Ellen Shepherd Brooks, Peter Chardon Brooks (1798-1880), and Henry Saltonstall. Photographers include John Adams Whipple and Black & Batchelder of Boston, Mass., as well as Disderi (Paris, France) and Brady's Studios (New York and Washington, D.C.), among others. An index to Vol. 1 is stored with the volume.
B. Vol. 2. Carte de visite album, ca. 1858-1884.
This volume contains carte de visite portraits, mostly of various members of the Adams, Amory, Appleton, Bacon, Brooks, Coolidge, Lawrence, and Saltonstall families. Subjects include Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886), Charles Francis Adams (1835-1915), Henry Adams (1838-1918), John Quincy Adams (1862-1886), Harriett Dexter Lawrence, Lawrence Brooks, Peter Chardon Brooks (1831-1920), Sarah Lawrence Brooks, Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall (1867-1961), and Henry Saltonstall, among many others. Photographers include Allen & Rowell, James Wallace Black, Antoine Sonrel, and John Adams Whipple of Boston, Mass., as well as George Kendall Warren of Cambridgeport, Mass., among many others. Includes tintypes and some hand-colored cartes de visite. An index to Vol. 2 is stored with the volume.
C. Vol. 3. Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family photograph album, ca. 1860-1902.
This volume contains cabinet card and carte de visite portraits, mostly of members of the Brooks, Lewis, and Saltonstall families. Many of the portraits were taken by Sarah Lawrence Brooks. Subjects include Amos Adams Lawrence, Amos Amory Lawrence, Sarah Elizabeth Appleton Lawrence, Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall, Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979), and Richard Middlecott Saltonstall, among many others. Other photographers include Augustus Marshall and James Wallace Black, among others. An index to Vol. 3 is stored with the volume.
D. Vol. 4. Lawrence-Brooks family photograph album, 1870-ca. 1890.
This volume contains portrait photographs, mostly of members of the Lawrence and Brooks families. Subjects include Lawrence Brooks, Sarah Lawrence Brooks, Amos Adams Lawrence, Amos Amory Lawrence, and Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, among many others. Photographs include Allen & Rowell, Notman & Campbell, James Notman, and Horatio G. Smith, all of Boston, among others. Most of the photographs are cabinet cards. An index to Vol. 4 is stored with the volume.
E. Vol. 5. Sarah Lawrence Brooks cabinet card album, 1881.
This volume contains cabinet card photographs collected by Sarah Lawrence Brooks, mostly of portraits of various members of the Lawrence family. Subjects include Sarah Lawrence Brooks, Amos Adams Lawrence, Amory Appleton Lawrence, Sarah Elizabeth Appleton Lawrence, and Harriet Dexter Lawrence Hemenway, among others. There are also two views of the Amos A. Lawrence residence in Brookline, Mass. All of the photographs were taken in 1881 by Notman & Campbell, Allen & Rowell, and Augustine H. Folsom. An index to Vol. 5 is stored with the volume.
F. Vol. 6. Sarah Lawrence Brooks cabinet card album, 1884-1887.
This volume contains photographs taken by Sarah Lawrence Brooks, mostly of her family at their home, "Point of Rocks," in West Medford, Mass. Subjects include Amos Adams Lawrence, Lawrence Brooks, Peter Chardon Brooks (1831-1920), Sarah Elizabeth Appleton Lawrence, Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, and Henry Saltonstall, among others. All of the photographs are cabinet cards. An index to Vol. 6 is stored with the volume.
Click here to view Photo. #33.772 (Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, 1886).
G. Vol. 7. Sarah Lawrence Brooks cabinet card album.
This volume contains cabinet card photographs taken and collected by Sarah Lawrence Brooks, mostly portraits of various Brooks and Lawrence family members. Subjects include Lawrence Brooks, Peter Chardon Brooks (1831-1920), Sarah Lawrence Brooks, Sarah Elizabeth Appleton Lawrence, William Lawrence, and Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, among others. Other photographers include Allen & Rowell and Augustus Marshall of Boston, Mass., among others. An index to Vol. 7 is stored with the volume.
H. Vol. 8. Wareham, Mass. photograph album, 1895-1900.
This volume contains photographs taken and collected by Sarah Lawrence Brooks of views of the Brooks family home on Buzzard's Bay in Wareham, Mass. These photographs also include views of family members, including Lawrence Brooks, Peter Chardon Brooks (1831-1920), Sarah Lawrence Brooks, Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979), Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall, and Richard Middlecott Saltonstall. One of the photographs was taken by Augustus Hemenway, Jr.; many of the photographers are unidentified. An index to Vol. 8 is stored with the volume.
I. Vol. 9. Groton, Mass. photograph album, 1897-1900.
This volume contains photographs of Lawrence Brooks' home in Groton, Mass., taken by Sarah Lawrence Brooks between 1897-1900. Includes one photograph of Lawrence Brooks. The volume appears to have been given to Lawrence by his mother in 1901; it bears an inscription on the cover that reads, "Lawrence Brooks/ 1901/ Photographs/ By/ Sarah Lawrence Brooks." An index to Vol. 9 is stored with the volume.
J. Vol. 10. Eleanor Brooks photograph album, ca. 1850-1883.
This volume contains photographs collected by Eleanor Brooks, mostly portraits of various Brooks and Lawrence family members. Subjects include Gorham Brooks, Helen Brooks, Lawrence Brooks, Peter Chardon Brooks (1831-1920), Harriet Dexter Lawrence, Sarah Elizabeth Appleton Lawrence, and Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, among others. Photographers include Allen & Rowell, Horatio G. Smith, and John Adams Whipple, all of Boston, Mass., among others. Includes cartes de visite and tintypes. An index to Vol. 10 is stored with the volume.
K. Vol. 11. Lawrence Brooks travel photographs, 1891.
This volume mostly contains commercial photographs of various places, purchased by Lawrence Brooks during his travels in the 1890s. These include images of Gibraltar, Martinique, St. Kitts, Bermuda, Yellowstone Falls and Yellowstone Canyon, and various places in Italy. There are also a number of photographs that document a trip to the western U.S. by Lawrence Brooks and friends in the summer of 1891; subjects include Wyoming, the Tetons, the Snake River, and Mammoth Hot Springs, among other locations. Some of these photographs were taken by novelist Owen Wister, one of Lawrence's companions on the trip. Many of the photographers are unidentified. Note: This was previously numbered as Album 13a.
L. Vol. 12. Lawrence Brooks photograph album, 1869-1900.
This volume mostly contains portrait photographs collected by Lawrence Brooks. Most of the photographs depict various members of the Brooks and Saltonstall families, including Lawrence Brooks, Peter Chardon Brooks (1831-1920), Sarah Elizabeth Appleton Lawrence, Sarah Brooks Lawrence, Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, Leverett Saltonstall (1897-1979), and Richard Saltonstall (1892-1979), among others. Photographers include Pach Bros. of New York, N.Y., as well as James Wallace Black, James Notman, and John Adams Whipple of Boston, Mass., among others. There is also one portrait of Peter Chardon Brooks (1831-1920) that was taken by Sarah Lawrence Brooks. Includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, and tintypes. An index to Vol. 12 is stored with the volume.
M. Vol. 13. Foreign views photograph album, ca. 1890s.
This volume mostly contains commercial photographs depicting views of such places as the Azores, Turkey, Israel, Algiers, and the Sahara Desert. These were probably collected by Lawrence Brooks during his travels in the 1890s. There is also one photograph of Lawrence Brooks in a buggy, taken Oct. 1895. The photographers are unidentified.
N. Vol. 14. Egypt photograph album, 1894.
This volume contains commercial photographs of Cairo, Egypt, and other Egyptian scenes, collected by Lawrence Brooks in 1894. The photographers are unidentified.
O. Vol. 15. West Medford, Mass. photograph album, 1867-1890.
This volume mostly contains photographs of Brooks family properties in West Medford, Mass. Some of the photographs include views of various Brooks and Saltonstall family members, including Peter Chardon Brooks (1831-1920), Henry Brooks, and Richard Middlecott Saltonstall. Photographers include Henry Brooks and Fanny Brooks, as well as many unidentified photographers. An index to Vol. 15 is stored with the volume.
P. Vol. 16. Ellen Shepherd Brooks carte de visite album, ca. 1860-1870.
This volume contains commercial carte de visite portraits of celebrated 19th-century individuals, including royalty, politicians, literary figures, military leaders, men of science, and musicians, among others. These photographs were probably collected by Ellen Shepherd Brooks during the 1860s; the inscriptions on the album pages are in her hand. Various photographers.
Q. Vol. 17. Lawrence family photograph album, 1869-1911.
This volume mostly contains portraits of various Lawrence family members, as well as members of the Amory, Brooks, Hemenway, and Saltonstall families. Subjects include Lawrence Brooks, William Lawrence, William Appleton Lawrence, Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall, Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall, and Richard Saltonstall (b. 1897). There is also one photograph of the interior of the library at the Lawrence home, Longwood, in Brookline, Mass. Photographers include James Wallace Black, Augustus Marshall, and James Notman, all of Boston, Mass., among others; many of the photographers are unidentified. Includes cabinet cards. An index to Vol. 17 is stored with the volume.
R. Vol. 18. Lawrence-Brooks family carte de visite album, 1862-1903.
This volume contains carte de visite portraits of members of the Lawrence and Brooks families, among others. Subjects include Helen Brooks, Rachel Brooks, Sarah Lawrence Brooks, Amory Appleton Lawrence, Amos Adams Lawrence, Hetty Sullivan Lawrence, Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall, and Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979), among many others. Photographers include Allen & Rowell, James Wallace Black, and John Adams Whipple of Boston, Mass.; George Kendall Warren of Cambridge, Mass.; Kunst-Verlag of Berlin, Germany; and Sarah Lawrence Brooks. An index to Vol. 18 is stored with the volume.
S. Vol. 19. Richard M. Saltonstall carte de visite album, ca. 1860-1887.
This volume contains carte de visite portraits collected by Rose Smith Lee Saltonstall for her son, Richard Middlecott Saltonstall, in 1865 and later. Subjects include some Saltonstall and Peabody family members, as well as photographs of various celebrated figures such as Civil War officers and European royalty. Most of the photographs are unidentified; many are undated. Photographers include James Wallace Black, John Adams Whipple, and Black & Case of Boston, Mass., among others. Includes some hand-colored cartes de visite. An index to Vol. 19 is stored with the volume.
T. Vol. 20. Saltonstall family photograph album, ca. 1875-1885.
This volume contains cartes de visite and cabinet card portraits of various people. Some of the subjects include Lee, Peabody, and Saltonstall family members; most of the photographs are unidentified. Photographers include James Notman and Allen & Rowell of Boston, Mass., among other photographers. An index to Vol. 20 is stored with the volume.
U. Vol. 21. Saltonstall family photograph album, 1864-1900.
This volume contains portrait photographs of various Saltonstall family members and friends. Subjects include Frances Saltonstall, Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979), Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall, Richard Middlecott Saltonstall, and Edmund March Wheelwright (1854-1912). Photographers include Augustus Marshall, James Wallace Black, and James E. Purdy & Co., all of Boston, Mass., among others. Also includes cartes de visite. An index to Vol. 21 is stored with the volume.
V. Vol. 22. Richard M. Saltonstall family photograph album, 1894-ca. 1900.
This volume contains portrait photographs of the members of the Richard M. Saltonstall family, taken between 1894-ca. 1900. Subjects include Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall, Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979), Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall, Richard Saltonstall (1897-1979), and Richard Middlecott Saltonstall. Photographers include Augustus Marshall of Boston, Mass. and Partridge; many photographers are unidentified. An index to Vol. 22 is stored with the volume.
W. Vol. 23. Harvard College Class of 1880 cabinet card album, 1880.
This volume contains cabinet card portraits, probably of the Harvard College Class of 1880. Many of the subjects are unidentified. Most of the photographs were taken ca. 1880 by James Notman of Boston, Mass. An index to Vol. 23 is stored with the volume.
X. Vol. 24. Portrait cabinet card album, ca. 1879-1889.
This volume contains cabinet card portrait photographs of various people, mostly unidentified, that were taken ca. 1879-1889. Photographers include James Notman, Augustus Marshall, and Allen & Rowell of Boston, Mass., among others. An index to Vol. 24 is stored with the volume.
Y. Vol. 25. Richard M. Saltonstall family photograph album, ca. 1900-1903.
This volume contains snapshot photographs of the Richard Middlecott Saltonstall family on their summer vacations, ca. 1900-1903. The photographs depict the Saltonstall family at such places as the Glades Club, a summer resort in Scituate, Mass.; Dixville Notch, New Hampshire; Lake Umbagog and Rangeley Lake in New Hampshire and Maine; and North Haven and Camden, Maine, among other places. There are also a number of views of Chestnut Hill in winter, taken in 1901. The photographs were probably taken by various Saltonstall family members.
Z. Vol. 26. Richard M. Saltonstall family photograph album, ca. 1900-1920.
This volume contains snapshot photographs of the Richard Middlecott Saltonstall family, ca. 1900-1920. The photographs depict them engaged in outdoor activities, both in summer and winter, as well as travel. The images were probably taken by various Saltonstall family members.
[There is no Album 27.]
AA. Vol. 28.
This volume contains photographs of various Saltonstall and Lewis family members and their descendants, taken ca. 1920-1938. Subjects include George Lewis (1887-1952), Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979), and Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, among others. Photographers include Alfred Brown of Brookline, Mass., among others; most of the photographers are unidentified. An index to Vol. 28 is stored with the volume.
BB. Vol. 29. Photographs of Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall's gardens, ca. 1933.
This volume contains professional black-and-white photographs of Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall's gardens at her home in Chestnut Hill, Mass., taken ca. 1933. The volume is inscribed, "Album of Mrs. Richard Saltonstall/ Return to Walter Channing." Photographers include Burr A. Church (Newton, Center, Mass.) and Richard Elwes, as well as unidentified photographers.
[There is no Album 30.]
CC. Vol. 31. Richard M. Saltonstall family travel photographs, 1916.
This volume contains snapshot photographs of the Richard Middlecott Saltonstall family during their travels in 1916 to the western U.S. The photographs depict Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, Richard Middlecott Saltonstall, Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall, Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall, and others in Albuquerque, N.M.; the Grand Canyon; Chandler, Ariz.; the Roosevelt Dam; Santa Barbara, and Bonita, Calif. The photographs were probably taken by various members of the Saltonstall family.
[There is no Vol. 32.]
DD. Vol. 33. Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall travel photographs, 1925.
This volume contains photographs taken by Charlotte Allen, a friend of Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, of their travels in 1925 aboard the SS Resolute from Florida to South America. Places depicted in the photos include Florida, Cuba, the Panama Canal, various places in South America, the Straits of Magellan, and Puerto Rico. An inscription on the inside cover of the volume reads, "South America/ January 24th - March 29th/ 1925./ In affectionate/ recollection and/ appreciation of a/ very happy and beautiful trip./ Char."
EE. Vol. 34. Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall travel photographs, 1908.
This volume contains photographs taken by Charlotte Allen, a friend of Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, while they traveled around Africa on the boat, Laconia, in 1908. Places depicted in the photographs include Madeira, the Canary Islands, Senegal, Sierra Leone, St. Helena, South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya, Nairobi, Zanzibar, the Sudan, the Nile River, and Egypt, as well as Rome, Geneva, London, and Paris.
[There are no Vols. 35-36.]
FF. Vol. 37. Richard M. Saltonstall family photographs, ca. 1895-1919.
This volume contains photographs of various Saltonstall family members, especially of Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall. Most of the images are snapshot photographs were taken at Chestnut Hill, Mass., North Haven, Me., and on the boat Comanche, among other places. There are also several photographs of Nora Saltonstall on horseback, as well as a photograph of her at Crater Lake, Oregon, while traveling through the western U.S. on an auto camping trip in the summer of 1919. Photographers include Partridge and Augustus Marshall of Boston, Mass., as well as many unidentified photographers.
Click here to view Photo. #33.3192 (Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall at helm of yawl Comanche, undated).
GG. Vol. 38. Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall photographs, 1917-1919.
This disbound volume contains photographs taken and collected by Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall during her time serving with the Red Cross in France in World War I, 1917-1919, as well of an auto camping trip she took to the western U.S. before her death in the summer of 1919. Includes commercial postcards and photo-postcards. This volume was disbound in 2003 due to preservation concerns, and the photographs are now foldered separately. Includes photocopies of the original pages as they were arranged in the volume.
Click here to view Photo. #33.3257 (house at Ressons-sur-Matz where Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall lived, Feb. 1918).
Click here to view Photo. #33.3281 (ambulances in front of the Royallieu hospital unloading wounded soldiers, June 1918).
Click here to view Photo. #33.3302 (members of Mrs Daly's Unit tending to one soldier in front of the Angicourt hospital, undated).
Click here to view Photo. #33.3368 (Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall in her Red Cross uniform, Ressons-sur-Matz, France, Feb. 1918).
Click here to view Photo. #33.3381 (women searching a bomb crater for souvenirs in France, ca. 1917-1918).
HH. Vol. 39. Dedication of Founder's Monument, Watertown, Mass. photograph album, ca. 1935.
This volume contains photographs of the dedication of the memorial to the founders of Watertown (a statue of Sir Richard Saltonstall), ca. 1935. Photographers include Fay Foto Service of Boston, Mass. and Chase Commercial Photos of Waltham, Mass., as well as unidentified photographers.
[There are no Vols. 40-41.]
II. Vol. 42. Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall and George Lewis wedding photographs, 1926.
This album contains informal wedding photographs of Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall (1896-1990) and George Lewis (1887-1952), 25 Sep. 1926. The photographer is unknown. This volume contains the following inscription: "Removed from Box VI, folder 18." This album was not numbered in the original series, so was assigned the vacant number 42. There was no Album 42 prior to that.
JJ. Vol. 43. Margaret Coe Cunningham photographs, ca. 1900-1910.
This volume contains snapshot photographs taken by Margaret Coe Cunningham for Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall, ca. 1900-1910. Subjects include photos of Muriel and others, mostly at Chestnut Hill, Monument Beach, and North Haven, Mass.
KK. Vol. 44. Lawrence Brooks tintype album, ca. 1878-1880
This volume contains tintypes of Lawrence Brooks and his friends taken ca. 1878-1880. The photographers are unknown. NOTE: This volume was found stored apart from the collection and was added to it in May 2004. It was not initially numbered as part of this series of volumes.
Preferred Citation
Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family photographs, Photo. Coll. 33, Massachusetts Historical Society Photo Archives.
Access Terms
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Materials Removed from the Collection
Thirty-four postcard albums were removed from this collection and stored with the MHS postcard collections (Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family postcards).