1845-1938
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Portions of this collection are available as color digital facsimiles (see links below). Where available, use of the originals is restricted.
Abstract
This collection consists of photographs related to Nathaniel T. Allen, the Allen family, the West Newton (Mass.) English and Classical School, and the Misses Allen School, including portraits of family members, portraits of students and teachers, and views of Allen family homes and school buildings.
Biographical Sketches
Nathaniel Topliff Allen was born in Medfield, Mass. on 29 Sep. 1823, the son of Ellis Allen (1792-1875) and Lucy Jane Lane Allen (1793-1889) and the brother of William Cowper Allen (1815-1909), George Ellis Allen (1817-1888), Joseph Addison Allen (1819-1904), Lucy Maria Allen Davis (1821-1900), Fanny Lane Allen (1825-1831), Abigail Ellis Allen Davis (1828-1896), and James Theodore Allen (1831-1900). He attended public schools in Medfield and Waltham, the school of his uncle Joseph Allen in Northboro, and the Northfield Academy. Having chosen teaching as a profession, he graduated from Bridgewater State Normal School in 1846 and continued his studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.
In addition to his studies, Nathaniel worked at the Waltham Cotton Mill during part of the year from the ages 10-13 and on farms in the summer. His early teaching positions included schools in Mansfield (1842-1843), Northboro (1843-1844 and 1847-1848), Northfield (1844-1846), and Shrewsbury (1846-1847). In 1848, Horace Mann appointed Nathaniel as principal of the Model Department of the State Normal School at West Newton, a position he held until the school relocated to Framingham in 1853. He served as principal of the West Newton English and Classical School (familiarly known as "the Allen School") from its opening in 1854 until his retirement in 1900.
The Allen School opened with 38 students, but quickly grew. Three of Allen's brothers, and later his three daughters, an uncle, nieces, and cousins, taught at the school and provided homes for the boarding students. The socially progressive school conducted co-educational classes, enrolled African American students, and was one of the first to include physical education as part of its curriculum. In addition to their academic studies, students attended classes in ethics, dancing, music, and art, and attended lectures by speakers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Lloyd Garrison, and Theodore Parker. During its 50-year history, over 5,000 students attended the Allen School, representing almost every state in the United States, as well as Europe, Japan, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Central and South America, Cuba, and Hawaii.
Nathaniel spent 1869 to 1871 in Europe as an agent for the U.S. Commissioner of Education, publishing a report on German secondary schools and educational systems. A progressive reformer, Nathaniel was active in the anti-slavery movement, the Underground Railroad, women's suffrage, temperance, and the education of women and African Americans. He served as an officer of the American Peace Society and the Society of Garrison Abolitionists; president of the West Newton Anti-Slavery Society; president of the Newton Woman Suffrage League; and a member of the Unitarian Club of Boston. He was also the first president of the board of directors of the Pomroy Home for Orphans in Newton, a position he held for 30 years.
Nathaniel married Caroline Swift Bassett (1830-1915) on 30 Mar. 1853, and the couple lived in West Newton with their four children, Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913), Sarah Caroline Allen Cooney (1861-1897), Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1864-1865), and Lucy Ellis Allen (1867-1943). He died in Aug. 1903 at the family's summer home in Linekin, Maine.
Caroline "Carrie" Swift Bassett Allen was born on Nantucket on 16 Oct. 1830, the daughter of James Nye Bassett (1801-1884) and Rebecca Fessenden Freeman Bassett (1805-1839). After graduating from Nantucket High School, Carrie attended the State Normal School at West Newton in 1849, studying under Cyrus Peirce. Here she met her future husband, Nathaniel T. Allen, who was principal of the Normal School's Model Department. After teaching in Nantucket from 1849 to 1852, she married Nathaniel on 30 Mar. 1853. She worked with her husband at the Allen School from 1854 until 1903, creating an enriching home life for hundreds of students who boarded in their home. After Nathaniel's death in 1903, she continued working with students at the Misses Allen School, founded by her daughters Fanny and Lucy. Carrie was active in the women's suffrage movement and an advocate for women's educational reform. She co-founded the West Newton Women's Educational Club, was a member of the New England Women's Club of Boston (with Caroline Severance and Julia Ward Howe), and the Browning Clubs of Boston and West Newton. A published essayist, she traveled twice to Europe, as well as to the western United States and Cuba. She died on 13 Apr. 1915 in West Newton at the age of 84.
Fanny Bassett Allen was born in West Newton on 21 Feb. 1857, the daughter of Nathaniel T. Allen and Caroline Swift Bassett Allen. After beginning her education at the Allen School in 1862, she accompanied her family at the age of 12 on their two-year stay in Europe, where she studied at the Conservatory of Music in Geneva and learned French and German. She later took art classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an interest in architecture, but was unable to continue her studies since women were not admitted to the program. Fanny taught French and German at the Allen School from 1878 to 1884 and from 1887 to 1889. In 1904, after her father's death, Fanny and her sister Lucy began their own school, the Misses Allen School for Girls, in their home in West Newton. Offering a college preparatory curriculum, the school had a maximum enrollment of 40 girls, including 10 boarding students.
Fanny founded the Lucy Jackson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Republic in Newton in 1896 and served as its regent for nine years. She traveled extensively, making three voyages to Europe, including a 1908 trip to visit her friend Pauline Odescalchi, Princess of Hungary. She died in West Newton on 14 Oct. 1913.
Sarah Caroline Allen Cooney was born in West Newton on 12 Apr. 1861, the daughter of Nathaniel T. Allen and Caroline Swift Bassett Allen. Beginning her education at the Allen School in 1864, she studied in Europe from 1869 to 1871. She initially prepared to attend Vassar, but decided to study kindergarten teaching with her former Allen School instructor Louise Pollock, graduating from the Froebel Normal Kindergarten Institute in Washington, D.C. in 1881. From 1881 to 1895, she taught at the Allen School, where she was in charge of the younger boys housed separately at the Annex. Sarah married attorney Patrick Henry Cooney (1845-1915), a former Allen School student, on 12 Sep. 1895, and the couple settled in Natick. She became active in the Leonard Morse Hospital, the Women's League, the Lucy Jackson Chapter of the D.A.R. (founded by her sister Fanny), and the Woman Suffrage Association. Discovering the lack of a Unitarian Society in Natick, she organized Unitarian ministers to give sermons at her home and later at the Universalist Church and the Red Men's Hall. After her death in childbirth on 4 Nov. 1897, the Sarah Allen Cooney Memorial Committee built a church in Natick in her honor, dedicated in Jan. 1903 by Edward Everett Hale and Samuel A. Eliot. Sarah was briefly survived by a daughter, Sarah Caroline Cooney, who died two days after her mother.
Lucy Ellis Allen was born in West Newton on 3 May 1867, the daughter of Nathaniel T. Allen and Caroline Swift Bassett Allen. She traveled to Europe with her family from 1869 to 1871, attending kindergarten classes in Germany. She began her studies at the Allen School in 1872 and received her A.B. from Smith College in 1889. Lucy taught at the Allen School from 1889 until her father's retirement in 1900. In 1904, she founded the Misses Allen School for Girls with her sister Fanny in the family's West Newton home, serving as its principal until about 1942, and also teaching classes in history, literature, and art. Lucy was the fifth regent of the Lucy Jackson Chapter of the D.A.R., vice-president and director of the Boston College Club, an officer of the Woman Suffrage Association and the Twentieth Century Club, and secretary of her Smith College class. Lucy traveled widely throughout the United States, made over 20 trips to Europe, and toured Japan, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Middle East. She lectured throughout Massachusetts on education, travel, and social welfare, and wrote numerous historical essays. Her companion Ruby Margaret Keefer (1887-1975) was a Radcliffe graduate who taught with Lucy at the Misses Allen School and shared her home from 1917 until Lucy's death in Nov. 1943.
Edwin and Gustaf Nielsen were the sons of Lars Nielsen (b. 1843) and Thora Engebredson Nielsen (1857-1897), Norwegians who emigrated to the Isles of Shoals near Portsmouth, N.H., and later Churchs Ferry, N.D. The couple had five children: Edwin Bjorne (1876-1958); a son (1879-1894); Olaf (ca. 1880-1903); a daughter (1885-1981); and Gustaf Arnold (1888-1960). By 1894, Lars had died, and Thora was living in the Episcopal Church Home in Boston with her daughter and Gustaf. Shortly thereafter, Thora moved back to Churchs Ferry and remarried, leaving her youngest two children at the home. Her daughter was adopted by Moritz Emil Richter (1825-1907) and Josephine Jenness Richter (1836-1914) of Portsmouth, who renamed her Ellnora. Since Edwin was a student at the Allen School, Thora begged the Allen family to take in Gustaf, her youngest son. Both boys became an integral part of the Allen family, described in Caroline Swift Bassett Allen's 1915 obituary as "two former wards, now as sons to the family."
Edwin Bjorne Nielsen was born on the Isles of Shoals on 24 Sep. 1876. He attended the Allen School from 1890 to 1895 and received a degree from Harvard Medical School in 1899. Traveling to Great Britain in 1900 and 1901 to learn medical procedures in British hospitals and clinics, he returned to open his medical practice in Boston. Edwin served as a private in Company D, First Corps of Cadets in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in 1905 and 1906 and as a major and surgeon with the 101st Engineer Battalion of the U.S. National Guard during World War I. On 7 July 1917, he married Lucia Amalia Schueg (1894-1993), a member of the Bacardi family of Cuba and a former Misses Allen School student. The couple had four children: Edwin Henry Nielsen (1918-2011); Henry Louis Nielsen; Joan Nielsen; and Janet Nielsen (d. 1922). Edwin died at his home in Brookline on 3 July 1958.
Gustaf Arnold Nielsen was born on 26 Dec. 1888 in Churchs Ferry, N.D. In 1894 and 1895, he lived with his mother in the Episcopal Church Home in Boston. After his mother returned to North Dakota, the poet Celia Thaxter, an acquaintance of his mother's, implored the Allen family to adopt Gustaf. Although he was never formally adopted, Gustaf became the Allens' ward and Nathaniel T. Allen's godson. After attending the Allen School, Gustaf studied at the Harvard School of Agriculture and Horticulture from 1904 to 1905; Massachusetts Agricultural College (then part of Boston University) from 1907 to 1911; and the Harvard Graduate School of Applied Science from 1911 to 1912, specializing in forestry and botany. During World War I, Gustaf served in the 2nd Company, 17th Provisional Training Regiment in Nov. 1917 and became a second lieutenant in the Aviation Section of the Signal Officers Reserve Corps in Mar. 1918. After the war, he traveled to Alaska and San Francisco on forestry assignments. He died on 24 Aug. 1960 in Vancouver, Washington.
Collection Description
The Nathaniel T. Allen photographs consist of 1,030 photographs related to Nathaniel T. Allen, the Allen family, the West Newton (Mass.) English and Classical School (a.k.a. the Allen School), and the Misses Allen School. The collection contains individual and group portraits of members of the Allen family and related families; individual and group portraits of students and teachers at the Allen School and the Misses Allen School, including African American students, other students of color, and international students; and views of Allen family homes and school buildings. Included are daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and other photographs, as well as two photograph albums. Among the many photographers are Edward L. Allen, Allen & Rowell, Frederic L. Lay, McCormick & Heald, Charles Seaver, Jr., and Emily Stokes, all of Boston, Mass.; Henry F. Warren and William A. Webster of Waltham, Mass.; and Seaver Photo of West Newton, Mass. The collection also contains photographs taken on Gustaf Arnold Nielsen's logging trip to Alaska in 1921 and photographs of student Carlos Roman Yznaga depicting his family and sugar plantation in Trinidad, Cuba, ca. 1895-1910.
Acquisition Information
The Nathaniel T. Allen photographs were removed from the Nathaniel T. Allen papers (Ms. N-2484), which were given to the Massachusetts Historical Society by the Allen School and House Preservation Corporation as a condition of sale of the real estate by the corporation to the Newton Cultural Alliance, February-March 2013.
Restrictions on Access
Portions of this collection are available as color digital facsimiles (see links below). Where available, use of the originals is restricted.
Other Formats
Portions of this collection are available as color digital facsimiles.
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Allen family photographs, ca. 1850-1938
This series contains individual and group portraits of members of the Allen family and related families, two photograph albums of portraits, and photographs of family homes. Included are cartes de visite, cabinet cards, tintypes, ambrotypes, and daguerreotypes. Many photographs contain inscriptions in various unknown hands. The series also includes photographs of Gustaf Arnold Nielsen during his World War I service and on a post-war logging trip to Alaska.
A. Individual portraits, ca. 1850-1938
Arranged alphabetically. Unidentified family members filed at the end.
Allen, Annie Kittredge (later Buck) (1872-1967), [ca. 1883-1885]
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen, Annie Kittredge (later Buck) (1872-1967), [ca. 1886-1888]
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Allen, Caroline Augusta Kittredge (1833-1897), ca. 1862
Taken by C. Seaver, Jr. (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Caroline Augusta Kittredge (1833-1897), [ca. 1865-1870]
Photographer unknown.Carte de visite.Allen, Caroline Augusta Kittredge (1833-1897), ca. 1874-1875
Taken by Allen (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Caroline Swift Bassett (1830-1915), [ca. 1855-1860]
Taken by Summerhays.Sixth-plate daguerreotype in leather case.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Daguerreotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 1).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Allen, Caroline Swift Bassett (1830-1915), ca. 1863
Photographer unknown.Miniature tintype.Allen, Caroline Swift Bassett (1830-1915), 1864
Taken by F. L. Lay (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Caroline Swift Bassett (1830-1915), [ca. 1864]
Taken by F. L. Lay (Boston, Mass.).2 cartes de visite.Allen, Caroline Swift Bassett (1830-1915), July 1866
Taken by Richardson & Cutler (Boston, Mass.).2 cartes de visite.Allen, Caroline Swift Bassett (1830-1915), [ca. 1866]
Taken by H. F. Warren (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Caroline Swift Bassett (1830-1915), [ca. 1869-1870]
Taken by Humblot (Dresden, Germany).Carte de visite.Allen, Caroline Swift Bassett (1830-1915), [ca. 1875]
Taken by Dunshee & Burnham (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Caroline Swift Bassett (1830-1915), [ca. 1895]
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen, Caroline Swift Bassett (1830-1915), [ca. 1900]
Taken by Emily Stokes (Boston, Mass.).Allen, Caroline Swift Bassett (1830-1915), [ca. 1905]
Reproduction of a painting by Elizabeth V. Taylor Watson, 1905.Allen, Caroline Swift Bassett (1830-1915), [ca. 1905-1915]
Photographer(s) unknown.4 photographs.Allen, Edna Louise, 16 Feb. 1895
Taken by Crutchfield (Los Angeles, Calif.).Cabinet card.Inscription on verso: "Edna Louise Allen / Age 13 months / d. of Geo. E. Allen / Los Angeles Cal."
Allen, Edward Augustus Holyoke (1828-1898), [ca. 1870]
Taken by Bierstadt Brothers (New Bedford, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Edward Augustus Holyoke (1828-1898), 1873
Taken by E. L. Allen (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Inscription on verso: "Edward A. H. Allen, 1873 / West Newton, Mass. / Teacher at the Allen School / 1872-1874 / Betsy Allen's Grandfather."
Allen, Edward Augustus Holyoke (1828-1898), Dec. 1895
Taken by Koenig (New Brighton, Staten Island).Carte de visite.Allen, Edward Ellis (1861-1950), 1864
Taken by Henry F. Warren (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Edward Ellis (1861-1950), [1864]
Taken by H. F. Warren (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Edward Ellis (1861-1950), 1870
Taken by J. J. Hawes (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Ellen Burt (later Washburn) (1855-1917), 1862
Photographer unknown.Carte de visite.[Allen, Ellen Burt (later Washburn) (1855-1917)], [ca. 1880]
Taken by McCormick & Heald (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Ellis (1792-1875), [ca. 1865-1870]
Photographer unknown.2 cartes de visite.Allen, Ellis (1792-1875), undated
Engraver unknown. Printed by Heliographic Engraving & Printing Co. (New York, N.Y.).Engraving.Allen, Eugenia Sophia Teulon (1836-1926), Mar. 1874
Taken by Allen & Rowell (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Fanny Bassett (1857-1913), 21 Feb. 1859
Photographer unknown.Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver (image faded).This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Allen, Fanny Bassett (1857-1913), [Aug.] 1860
Taken by H. F. Warren (Waltham, Mass.).Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Allen, Fanny Bassett (1857-1913), Dec. 1863
Taken by H. F. Warren (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Fanny Bassett (1857-1913), July 1866
Taken by Richardson & Cutler (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Fanny Bassett (1857-1913), [1872]
Taken by Allen (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Fanny Bassett (1857-1913), 1878
Taken by W. A. Webster (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Fanny Bassett (1857-1913), Nov. 1881
Taken by McCormick & Heald (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Fanny Bassett (1857-1913), [ca. 1881-1883]
Taken by McCormick & Heald (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen, Fanny Bassett (1857-1913), [ca. 1883-1885]
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen, Fanny Bassett (1857-1913), Dec. 1901
Taken by Emily Stokes (Boston, Mass.).Allen, Fanny Bassett (1857-1913), [ca. 1901]
Taken by Hastings (Boston, Mass.).Allen, Fanny Bassett (1857-1913), [ca. 1901]
Taken by Emily Stokes (Boston, Mass.).Allen, Fanny Bassett (1857-1913), [ca. 1905]
Photographer unknown.Label on recto: "Miss. Fanny B. Allen / Regent.....1895-1905." Inscription on verso: "Lucy Jackson Chapter DAR."
Allen, Fanny Bassett (1857-1913), [ca. 1920]
Reproduction of a painting by Elizabeth V. Taylor Watson, 1920.Apparently painted from Photo. #247.48 above.
Allen, Frederick Cunningham (b. 1865), [ca. 1890]
Taken by Lovell (Amherst, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen, George Edward (b. 1875), [ca. 1895]
Taken by H. C. Hall (Augusta, Ga.).Cabinet card.Allen, George Ellis (1817-1888), ca. 1865
Taken by E. L. Goss (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, George Ellis (1817-1888), [ca. 1865]
Photographer unknown.Allen, George Ellis (1817-1888), [ca. 1865]
Engraver unknown. Printed by Boston Photogravure Co. (Boston, Mass.).Engraving .Allen, George Ellis (1817-1888), [ca. 1880-1885]
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen, Harriet Isabella (b. 1870), [ca. 1888]
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen, James Theodore (1831-1900), 1862
Taken by Black (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, James Turney (b. 1873) in graduation robe and cap, Dec. 1902
Taken by Buchnell.Allen, James Turney (b. 1873), 14 Sep. 1936
Taken by Coleman.Allen, Jennie Clark (b. 1867), 25 Dec. 1886
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen, Joseph (1790-1873), [ca. 1865]
Taken by A. Marshall (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Joseph Addison (1819-1904), ca. 1862
Taken by H. G. Smith (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Joseph Henry (1820-1898), 1871 or 1875
Taken by A. Marshall (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), Oct. 1867
Taken by H. F. Warren (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), [1872]
Taken by Allen (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), June 1877
Taken by W. A. Webster (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), May 1879
Taken by W. A. Webster (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), [ca. 1885]
Taken by McCormick & Heald (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), [ca. 1885-1890]
Taken by Hardy (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), [ca. 1890-1895]
Taken by Pach Bros. (New York, N.Y.).2 cabinet cards.Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), Nov. 1896
Taken by Emily Stokes (Boston, Mass.).Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), [Nov. 1896]
Taken by Emily Stokes (Boston, Mass.).Photograph torn.Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), [ca. 1900]
Taken by Hastings (Boston, Mass.).Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), Dec. 1901
Taken by Holton (Boston, Mass.).2 photographs.Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), [ca. 1905-1910]
Taken by Jamieson Studio (Boston, Mass.).2 postcards.Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), [ca. 1905-1910]
Photographer unknown.Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), 1919
Photographer unknown.Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), [ca. 1930]
Taken by Perham Studio (Boston, Mass.).Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), [ca. 1930]
Taken by Herbert E. Glasier & Co. (Boston, Mass.).Postcard.Allen, Lucy Ellis (1867-1943), [ca. 1930-1935]
Photographer unknown.Allen, Lucy Jane Lane (1793-1889), Jan. 1863
Taken by H. F. Warren (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Lucy Jane Lane (1793-1889), May 1881
Photographer unknown.Carte de visite.Allen, Lucy Maria (1821-1900)
Allen, Minnie Treat (later Chase) (1860-1934), Dec. 1862
Taken by H. F. Warren (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [ca. 1855]
Photographer unknown.Sixth-plate daguerreotype in leather case.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Daguerreotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 1).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [ca. 1855-1860]
Taken by James & Co. (Boston, Mass.).3 ninth-plate ambrotypes in brass preservers.These photographs are stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request Photo. #2.227 (#247.88), follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
To request Photo. #2.228 (#247.89), follow this link. To request Photo. #2.229 (#247.90), follow this link.
Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [ca. 1855-1860]
Taken by Amsden (Boston, Mass.).Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), Apr. 1862
Taken by F. L. Lay (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), ca. 1863
Photographer unknown.Miniature tintype.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), July 1866
Taken by Richardson & Cutler (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [1866]
Taken by W. H. Getchell (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [1866]
Taken by Richardson & Cutler (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [ca. 1866-1868]
Taken by Black & Batchelder (Boston, Mass.).2 cartes de visite (one signed by Nathaniel T. Allen).Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [ca. 1866-1868]
Taken by F. L. Lay (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [ca. 1866-1868]
Photographer(s) unknown.2 cartes de visite (one signed by Nathaniel T. Allen).Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [ca. 1866-1868]
Engraver unknown. Printed by Heliographic Engraving & Printing Co. (New York, N.Y.).Engraving.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [ca. 1869-1870]
Taken by Humblot (Dresden, Germany).Carte de visite.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [ca. 1875]
Photographer unknown.Carte de visite.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [ca. 1885]
Taken by McCormick & Heald (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [ca. 1885]
Taken by McCormick & Heald (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), Aug. 1886
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [ca. 1895]
Taken by Metcalf (West Newton, Mass.).2 photographs.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [ca. 1895]
Engraved by A. H. Ritchie. Photographer unknown.Engraving, photograph, and negative.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [1903]
Photographer unknown.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1852-1872), [ca. 1870]
Photographer unknown.Tintype.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1852-1872), [ca. 1870]
Taken by Allen (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Apparently made from tintype above (Photo. #247.112).
Allen, Noah (b. 1807) in front of the Allen family home, Medfield, Mass., 1902
Photographer unknown.Allen, Paul Howard Sherwin (1891-1891), 1891
Taken by Entrekin (Philadelphia, Pa.).Cabinet card.Allen, Phineas (1801-1885), [ca. 1880]
Taken by H. N. Roberts (Madison, Wis.).Carte de visite.Allen, Rosa Smith (1859-1911), [ca. 1866-1868]
Taken by Black & Case (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Sarah Caroline (1861-1897)
Allen, Susan Maria Treat (1818-1888), ca. 1865
Photographer unknown.Carte de visite.Allen, Susan Maria Treat (1818-1888), [ca. 1865]
Taken by E. L. Goss (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, Susan Maria Treat (1818-1888), [ca. 1875-1880]
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen, Thomas Scott (1825-1905) in Civil War uniform, [1861-1865]
Taken by Fuller (Madison, Wis.).Carte de visite (signed by Thomas Scott Allen).Allen, William Coggin (1844-1885), Apr. 1864
Taken by F. W. Haskins & Co. (Holyoke, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, William Ellis (b. 1869), Aug. 1889
Taken by Peddinghaus (Augusta, Ga.).Cabinet card.Allen, William Francis (1830-1889), [ca. 1855]
Taken by James & Co. (Boston, Mass.).Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Allen, William Francis (1830-1889), [ca. 1860]
Taken by Allen (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen, William Wirt (1829-1878), Mar. 1875
Taken by Kirk (Mason City, Iowa).Carte de visite.Bassett, Anna C. (b. 1838)
Bassett, Caroline Swift (1830-1915)
Bassett, Lemuel Freeman (1828-1864), [ca. 1864]
Taken by C. Seaver, Jr. (Boston, Mass.).2 cartes de visite.Bassett, Sarah R. (later Wheeler) (1836-1925), [ca. 1860-1865]
Taken by Allen (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Bassett, Sarah R. (later Wheeler) (1836-1925), [ca. 1860-1865]
Taken by Allen & Horton (Boston, Mass.).2 cartes de visite (one torn).Cooney, Sarah Caroline Allen (1861-1897), [ca. 1864-1865]
Taken by Clifford & Shapleigh (Boston, Mass.).Cooney, Sarah Caroline Allen (1861-1897), July 1872
Taken by Allen (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Cooney, Sarah Caroline Allen (1861-1897), Nov. 1881
Taken by W. A. Webster (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Cooney, Sarah Caroline Allen (1861-1897), [ca. 1881]
Taken by McCormick & Heald (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Cooney, Sarah Caroline Allen (1861-1897), ca. 1890
Photographer unknown.Miniature tintype.Cooney, Sarah Caroline Allen (1861-1897), 3 May 1897
Taken by Emily Stokes (Boston, Mass.).Cooney, Sarah Caroline Allen (1861-1897), [3] May 1897
Taken by Emily Stokes (Boston, Mass.).3 differently cropped versions of the same photograph.Curtis, Bracey (1870-1929), [ca. 1888-1890]
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Curtis, Bracey (1870-1929), [ca. 1890-1895]
Taken by Chamberlain (Medfield, Mass.).Cabinet card.Curtis, Ellen Wight (1837-1907), [ca. 1895-1900]
Taken by Foley (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Davis, Allen Rommel (1886-1894), [1886]
Taken by Curtiss & Smith (Syracuse, N.Y.).Cabinet card.Davis, Charles Dana (b. 1826), [ca. 1895-1900]
Taken by Metcalf (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Davis, Charles Dana (b. 1826), [ca. 1905-1910]
Photographer unknown.Davis, Joseph Allen (1843-1863), 1856
Photographer unknown.Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Davis, Joseph Allen (1843-1863), [ca. 1861-1863]
Taken by Lazier (Syracuse, N.Y.).Carte de visite.Davis, Joseph Allen (1843-1863), [ca. 1861-1863]
Taken by Fratelli Stuardi (Turin, Italy).Carte de visite.Attached side by side with photograph of Davis family woman below (Photo. #247.147b) on carte-de-visite backing.
Unidentified [Davis family] woman, [ca. 1861-1863]
Taken by Fratelli Stuardi (Turin, Italy).Carte de visite.Attached side by side with photograph of Joseph Allen Davis above (Photo. #247.147a) on carte-de-visite backing. Subject is possibly one of Joseph Allen Davis's sisters.
Davis, Leon Keith (1873-1948), 17 Jan. 1875
Taken by Carter (Worcester, Mass.).Carte de visite.Davis, Lucy Elinor (1855-1881), Apr. 1874
Taken by L. W. Cook (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Davis, Lucy Maria Allen (1821-1900), July 1872
Taken by Black (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Davis, Lucy Maria Allen (1821-1900), ca. 1875
Taken by Lipp Studio (Philadelphia, Pa.).Davis, Seth, undated
Taken by G. H. Loomis (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Davis, Mrs. Seth, undated
Photographer unknown.Carte de visite.Dela Court, Tom Edward (1931-2010) with dog Patsy, 16 Sep. 1932
Photographer unknown.Enclosed in envelope with inscription: "Stepbrother to the Nielsen's boys." The connection between the Dela Courts and Nielsens is unclear.
Dela Court, Tom Edward (1931-2010), 1934
Photographer unknown.Enclosed in envelope with inscription: "Stepbrother to the Nielsen's boys." The connection between the Dela Courts and Nielsens is unclear.
Elwell, James Henry Nickerson (1896-1957), 3 Nov. 1896
Taken by Seaver or Franklin Metcalf (West Newton, Mass.).Freeman, Bathsheba (1808-1890)
Freeman, Sarah Bunker (1855-1905), [ca. 1866-1868]
Taken by Silsbee, Case & Co. (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Johnson, Harriet Hall (1842-1929), 1861
Taken by F. L. Lay (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Keefer, Ruby Margaret (1887-1975), 1919
Photographer unknown.Keefer, Ruby Margaret (1887-1975), [ca. 1925]
Photographer(s) unknown.3 photographs.Keefer, Ruby Margaret (1887-1975), [ca. 1930]
Taken by Perham Studio (Boston, Mass.).Keefer, Ruby Margaret (1887-1975), [ca. 1930-1935]
Photographer(s) unknown.3 photographs.Keefer, Ruby Margaret (1887-1975), 20 Apr. 1938
Taken by Cedric G. Chase.Kuderman, John Ransom (1916-2010), 14 Aug. 1916
Taken by R. D. Lenhart (Aurora, Mo.).Postcard.Inscription on verso: "John Ransom Kuderman / age 7 mo. 8 day. / Aug. 14 - 16 / Edwin half brother." Postcard is addressed to Edwin Nielsen. The connection between the Kudermans and Nielsens is unclear.
Lane, Caroline Amanda (1857-1862), [ca. 1860]
Taken by E. L. Goss (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Lane, Frederick Turner (1848-1919), 1862
Photographer unknown.Ninth-plate ambrotype in leather case.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Lane, Harriet, July 1869
Photographer unknown.Carte de visite.Inscription on verso: "Aunt Harriet Lane Medfield."
Lane, Lucy Jane (1793-1889)
Lane, Lucy Marie (1851-1921)
Nickerson, Anna C. Bassett (b. 1838), [ca. 1862-1863]
Taken by Whipple (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Nickerson, Anna C. Bassett (b. 1838), [ca. 1875-1880]
Taken by T. R. Burnham (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Nickerson, Bathsheba Freeman (1808-1890), Oct. 1866
Taken by Whipple (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Nickerson, Caleb (1798-1877), Oct. 1866
Taken by Whipple (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.[Nickerson, Caroline May (later Little) (1864-1945)], [ca. 1867-1868]
Taken by Bowers (Lynn, Mass.).Carte de visite.[Nickerson, Caroline May (later Little) (1864-1945)], 25 Dec. 1868
Taken by Allen (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Inscription on verso: "A Merry Christmas Aunt Carrie from your loving niece Carrie May / Dec. 25. 1868."
Nickerson, Joshua Granville (b. 1827), [ca. 1865]
Taken by Black (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Nickerson, Joshua Granville (b. 1827), [ca. 1870]
Taken by J. W. Black (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Nickerson, Joshua Granville (b. 1827), Dec. 1901
Taken by Notman Photographic Co. (Boston, Mass.).Nielsen, Edwin Bjorne (1876-1958), [ca. 1882-1884]
Taken by Harlow (Montpelier, Vt.).Carte de visite.Nielsen, Edwin Bjorne (1876-1958), [ca. 1884-1886]
Taken by Harlow (Montpelier, Vt.).Cabinet card.Nielsen, Edwin Bjorne (1876-1958), 20 Feb. 1894
Taken by Seaver (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Nielsen, Edwin Bjorne (1876-1958), 23 Mar. 1895
Taken by Hastings (Boston, Mass.).Nielsen, Edwin Bjorne (1876-1958) in a woman's costume, [ca. 1898-1899]
Taken by Marceau (Boston, Mass.).2 photographs and 2 negatives.Nielsen, Edwin Bjorne (1876-1958) dressed as a female Native American, [ca. 1898-1899]
Taken by Notman Photo Co. (Boston and Cambridge, Mass.).Nielsen, Edwin Bjorne (1876-1958), [ca. 1905-1910]
Photographer unknown.Nielsen, Edwin Bjorne (1876-1958) in World War I uniform, [ca. 1917-1918]
Photographer(s) unknown.2 photographs and 1 postcard.Nielsen, Edwin Bjorne (1876-1958), [ca. 1918-1920]
Taken by Sands Studio (Brookline, Mass).Nielsen, Edwin Henry (1918-2011), [1920]
Photographer unknown (Allenhurst, N.J.).Nielsen, [Ellnora] (1885-1981)
Nielsen was the sister of Edwin Bjorne Nielsen and Gustaf Arnold Nielsen. She was adopted by Moritz Emil Richter (1825-1907) and Josephine Jenness Richter (1836-1914) and given the name Ellnora Richter. Her former first name is unknown. She married Arthur Hopkins Rice.
Nielsen, Gustaf Arnold (1888-1960), [ca. 1893-1894]
Photographer unknown.Nielsen, Gustaf Arnold (1888-1960), [ca. 1898]
Taken by Metcalf (West Newton, Mass.).Nielsen, Gustaf Arnold (1888-1960), [ca. 1903-1904]
Photographer unknown.Nielsen, Gustaf Arnold (1888-1960), [ca. 1906-1908]
Photographer unknown.Nielsen, Gustaf Arnold (1888-1960) with a rifle and the body of a deer, [ca. 1912-1917]
Photographer unknown.Nielsen, Gustaf Arnold (1888-1960) in World War I uniform, [ca. 1917-1918]
Taken by Thurston Hatcher (Atlanta, Ga.).[Nielsen], Janet (d. 1922), [ca. 1922]
Photographer unknown.Postcard.Inscription on verso: "Janet / 4 years old."
Nielsen, Lucia Amalia Schueg (1894-1993), [ca. 1905-1906]
Photographer unknown.Nielsen, Lucia Amalia Schueg (1894-1993), [ca. 1909-1910]
Photographer unknown.Nielsen, Lucia Amalia Schueg (1894-1993) in a Turkish costume, 25 July 1914
Taken by Naranjo Bros. (Santiago de Cuba, Cuba).Postcard.Inscription on verso in Lucia Nielsen's hand to Caroline Swift Bassett Allen: "Dear Mrs. Allen: here is the picture of a turkish girl; do you know her? With much love Lucia."
Nielsen, Lucia Amalia Schueg (1894-1993), [ca. 1915-1916]
Taken by [Bowman].Plimpton, Clara, Jan. 1872
Taken by Richardson (Boston, Mass.).Subject may be Clara Idella Plimpton (later Kendall) (1848-1941) or Clara Ella Plimpton (later Newell) (1852-1931).
Plimpton, Clarissa Maria Wight (1826-1902), [ca. 1860]
Taken by Black (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.[Plimpton, Cora Gertrude (later Johnson) (1854-1932)], [ca. 1874-1875]
Taken by Partridge (Boston, Mass.).[Plimpton, Cora Gertrude (later Johnson) (1854-1932)], [ca. 1874-1875]
Taken by C. M. Bell (Washington, D.C.).Carte de visite.[Plimpton, Cora Gertrude (later Johnson) (1854-1932)], [ca. 1874-1875]
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Plimpton, Eleanor Eliza (b. 1810), May 1884
Taken by Chas. S. Rawson (Brooklyn, N.Y.).Cabinet card.Plimpton, Hannah Elizabeth (1833-1920), [ca. 1860-1865]
Taken by Treat (Boston, Mass.).Miniature tintype on paper backing.Plimpton, Henry Richardson (1820-1891), [ca. 1870]
Taken by Collin's Gallery of Art (Westfield, Mass.).Carte de visite.Plimpton, Henry Richardson (1820-1891), May 1874
Taken by T. R. Burnham (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Plimpton, James Leonard (1828-1911), [ca. 1860]
Photographer unknown.Sixth-plate ambrotype in leather case.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Plimpton, James Leonard (1828-1911), [ca. 1870-1880]
Engraved by C. B. Hall (New York, N.Y.).Engraving.Plimpton, Lucy, 1889
Taken by Hardy (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Plimpton, Lucy Ann (b. 1834), Apr. 1883
Taken by Veeder (Albany, N.Y.).Carte de visite.Inscription on verso: "Miss Lucy A. Plimpton / Prin[cipa]l Albany Female Academy, 1880-3."
Plimpton, Mary A. (1830-1914), Dec. 1872
Taken by Dunshee & Burnham (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Plimpton, Mary A. (1830-1914), [ca. 1874]
Taken by T. R. Burnham (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Plimpton, Theodore Albert (1844-1924), [ca. 1858-1860]
Taken by C. T. Sylvester (Boston, Mass.).Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Plimpton, [Willard Pratt (1821-1905)], [ca. 1860]
Taken by Black (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Powers, Joseph Allen (1858-1912), [ca. 1865-1866]
Photographer unknown.Carte de visite.Rice, Arthur Hopkins (1883-1932), [ca. 1905-1910]
Taken by Marceau (Boston, Mass.).Rice, Ellnora Richter (1885-1981), [ca. 1890]
Photographer unknown.Rice, Ellnora Richter (1885-1981), [ca. 1900-1905]
Taken by Partridge (Boston, Mass.).Rice, Ellnora Richter (1885-1981), [ca. 1900-1905]
Taken by R. C. Boyd (Portsmouth, N.H.).Rice, Ellnora Richter (1885-1981), [ca. 1905-1910]
Taken by Marceau (Boston, Mass.).2 photographs.Rice, Ellnora Richter (1885-1981), [ca. 1910]
Photographer unknown.Rice, Josephine Richter (later Colvocoresses) (1912-1995), [1913]
Photographer unknown.Rice, Josephine Richter (later Colvocoresses) (1912-1995), [ca. 1930-1932]
Taken by Sands.Richter, Ellnora (1885-1981)
Rogers, Henry Derby (1853-1934), 16 May 1874
Taken by Jas. W. Turner (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Schueg, Lucia Amalia (1894-1993)
Simpson, George W. (1845-1927), Mar. 1873
Taken by Hardy (Boston, Mass.).Simpson, Isabel Treat (later Robertson) (1873-1942), 1893
Photographer unknown.Simpson, Lucy Marie Lane (1851-1921), Mar. 1873
Taken by Hardy (Boston, Mass.).Simpson, Walter Raymond (1879-1935), 1893
Photographer unknown.[Washburn, Lucy Christiana (later Rogers) (1896-1974)] at a piano, 1913
Photographer unknown.Unidentified Allen family man, [ca. 1850-1855]
Photographer unknown.Sixth-plate daguerreotype in leather case.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Daguerreotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 1).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Subject may be George Ellis Allen (1817-1888) or Joseph Henry Allen (1820-1898).
Unidentified Allen family child, [ca. 1855-1860]
Photographer unknown.Ninth-plate ambrotype in leather case (image faded).This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Label on outside of leather case: "Jos. A. Allen." Subject is possibly one of the daughters of Joseph Addison Allen and Lucy Temple Burt Allen, either Ellen Burt Allen or Rosa Smith Allen.
Unidentified family members, [ca. 1860-ca. 1920] and undated
58 photographs.Unidentified members of the Allen and related families. Primarily cartes de visite, but also tintypes, cabinet cards, and other photographs. Photographers include Allen, Allen & Rowell, T. R. Burnham, Chute, L. W. Cook, W. H. Getchell, A. N. Hardy, F. L. Lay, G. H. Loomis, S. Masury, Notman, C. Seaver, Jr., Seaver & Lothrop, Whipple, and Wing's, all of Boston, Mass.; Freeman & Coffin of Nantucket, Mass.; Alexander Perry, H. F. Warren, and W. A. Webster, all of Waltham, Mass.; Collin's Gallery of Art of Westfield, Mass.; C. R. B. Claflin of Worcester, Mass.; and A. J. Fox of St. Louis, Mo. Also included is an undated cabinet card of the family dog. Some subjects may be non-relatives.
B. Group portraits, 1852-1938
Arranged alphabetically by family, then chronologically. Unidentified family groups filed at the end.
Allen family: [Lucy Temple Burt Allen (1822-1875) and Joseph Burt Allen (1852-1855)], [1852]
Photographer unknown.Sixth-plate daguerreotype in leather case.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Daguerreotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 1).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Allen family: [Caroline Swift Bassett Allen (1830-1915) and Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913) or Sarah Caroline Allen (later Cooney) (1861-1897)], [1857 or 1861]
Photographer unknown.Sixth-plate ambrotype in leather case (image faded).This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Image is faded but probably depicts Caroline Swift Bassett Allen with one of her two older daughters as a child.
Allen family: Ellis Allen (1792-1875), Lucy Jane Lane Allen (1793-1889), their children, and their children's families at the Allen homestead, Medfield, Mass., ca. 1862
Photographer unknown.Subjects include the families of (from left to right): George Ellis Allen (1817-1888), William Cowper Allen (1815-1909), Abigail Ellis Allen Davis (1828-1896), Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903), Joseph Addison Allen (1819-1904), Lucy Maria Allen Davis (1821-1900), and James Theodore Allen (1831-1900). Also depicted is William Winthrop Allen (formerly Silas Allen) (1795-1888). Included is a photocopied key to the photograph apparently written by Edward Ellis Allen. One part of the key reads: "Uncle Silas - minister - crazy / disappointed in love."
Allen family: Thomas Prentiss Allen (1822-1868) and Edward Augustus Holyoke Allen (1828-1898), Mar. 1865
Taken by Bierstadt Brothers (Philadelphia, Pa.).Carte de visite.Allen family: Caroline Augusta Kittredge Allen (1833-1897) and one of her children, [ca. 1865-1870]
Taken by J. Ganz (Zurich, Switzerland).Carte de visite.Allen family: Caroline Swift Bassett Allen (1830-1915) and Lucy Ellis Allen (1867-1943), Sep. 1867
Taken by H. F. Warren (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen family: Sarah Caroline Allen (later Cooney) (1861-1897), Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913), and Lucy Ellis Allen (1867-1943), [ca. 1869]
Taken by Black (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Allen family: Lucy Jane Lane Allen (1793-1889) and Ellis Allen (1792-1875), [ca. 1870-1875]
Photographer unknown.Inscription on verso: "Ellis Allen great abolitionist / Set pines out day John Brown was hung / Lucy Allen of Allen School is their granddaughter."
Allen family: Caroline Swift Bassett Allen (1830-1915) and Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903), [1872]
Taken by E. L. Allen (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen family: William Denison Allen (b. 1858) and Edward D. Allen (1867-1933), [1874]
Taken by Kirk (Mason City, Iowa).Carte de visite.Allen family: Sarah Caroline Allen (later Cooney) (1861-1897), Lucy Ellis Allen (1867-1943), Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913), and other family members, [ca. 1880]
Photographer unknown.Allen family: Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913) and three unidentified women, [ca. 1880-1885]
Taken by E. J. Betts (Dansville, N.Y.).Tintype.Allen family: Lucy Jane Lane Allen (1793-1889), Lucy Maria Allen Davis (1821-1900), and an unidentified woman and child, 23 Mar. [1882]
Photographer unknown (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Inscription on verso: "4 generations Allen family."
Allen family: Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903), Lucy Ellis Allen (1867-1943), Sarah Caroline Allen (later Cooney) (1861-1897), Caroline Swift Bassett Allen (1830-1915), and Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913), 25 Dec. 1882
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen family: Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903) and his mother and siblings, 1882
Photographer unknown.2 copies.Subjects include (back row from left to right, front row from left to right): Joseph Addison Allen (1819-1904), Abigail Ellis Allen Davis (1828-1896), Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903), James Theodore Allen (1831-1900), William Cowper Allen (1815-1909), Lucy Maria Allen Davis (1821-1900), Lucy Jane Lane Allen (1793-1889), and George Ellis Allen (1817-1888).
Allen family: George Edward Allen (b. 1876), Harriet Isabella Allen (b. 1870), Minnie Gertrude Allen (later Keniston) (b. 1881), Nathaniel Lewis Allen (1872-1933), and [Ernest William Everett Allen (1878-1961)], [ca. 1883]
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen family: Lucy Ellis Allen (1867-1943), Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913), and Sarah Caroline Allen (later Cooney) (1861-1897), [ca. 1885]
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Allen family: Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903) and other family members at the Allen homestead, Medfield, Mass., [ca. 1885-1889]
Taken by E. Chamberlain (Medfield, Mass.).Allen family: Lucy Ellis Allen (1867-1943) and two unidentified women, Mar. 1888
Taken by Lovell (Northampton, Mass.).Carte de visite.Inscription on verso: "March '88 / at Smith."
Allen family: Sarah Caroline Allen (later Cooney) (1861-1897) and two other women on horseback, Apr. 1889
Photographer unknown.Inscription on verso: "E. Gilmore on Dan / S. Allen on Prince / S. Bent on Princess." Other two subjects are Emma Louise Gilmore (later Mee) (1867-1949) and Susan Roby Bent (later Marvin) (1872-1961).
Allen family: Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903), Lucy Ellis Allen (1867-1943), Caroline Swift Bassett Allen (1830-1915), Sarah Caroline Allen (later Cooney) (1861-1897), Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913), and other family members in front of Edward Augustus Holyoke Allen's house, 18 June 1889
Taken by C. A. Sheffeld (Florence, Mass.).Allen family: Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913) and two unidentified women, [ca. 1890]
Photographer unknown.Allen family: Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903) and other family members at North School reunion, Medfield, Mass., 24 Oct. 1893
Photographer unknown.Caption on verso: "Reunion of Pupils. / Who attended the North School more than Sixty years ago. / Held at 'Allen Homestead,' Castle Hill, Medfield, Oct. 24, 1893." Caption includes an annotated list of pupils and a poem in honor of the school.
Allen family: William Cowper Allen (1815-1909), Abigail Ellis Allen Davis (1828-1896), Joseph Addison Allen (1819-1904), James Theodore Allen (1831-1900), Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903), and Lucy Maria Allen Davis (1821-1900) in Linekin, Me., Aug. 1894
Photographer(s) unknown.2 photographs.Allen family: Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903) and other family members in Linekin, Me., Aug. 1894
Photographer(s) unknown.2 photographs.Allen family: Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903) and his siblings, wife, and children, [Aug. 1894]
Photographer unknown.Subjects include (back row from left to right, middle row from left to right, front row from left to right): Caroline Swift Bassett Allen (1830-1915), James Theodore Allen (1831-1900), Caroline Augusta Kittredge Allen (1833-1897), Charles Dana Davis (b. 1826), Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913), Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903), Lucy Maria Allen Davis (1821-1900), Joseph Addison Allen (1819-1904), William Cowper Allen (1815-1909), Abigail Ellis Allen Davis (1828-1896), Lucy Ellis Allen (1867-1943), and Sarah Caroline Allen (later Cooney) (1861-1897).
Allen family: Sarah Caroline Allen Cooney (1861-1897) and other suffragettes in white dresses holding brooms, [ca. 1895-1897]
Photographer unknown.Allen family: Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903) and other family members in Medfield, Mass., June 1896
Photographer unknown.Inscription on verso: "Medfield gathering to celebrate 103 anniversary of Grandma Allen [Lucy Jane Lane Allen (1793-1889)] June/96."
Allen family: Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903), Caroline Swift Bassett Allen (1830-1915), Patrick Henry Cooney (1845-1915), and Sarah Caroline Cooney (1897-1897), [5] Nov. 1897
Photographer(s) unknown.4 photographs.Sarah Caroline Cooney, the daughter of Sarah Caroline Allen Cooney and Patrick Henry Cooney, was born on 4 Nov. 1897 and died on 6 Nov. 1897. Sarah Caroline Allen Cooney died in childbirth on the day her daughter was born, 4 Nov. 1897.
Allen family: Patrick Henry Cooney (1845-1915), Caroline Swift Bassett Allen (1830-1915), and Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903), [5 Nov. 1897]
Photographer unknown.Allen family: Lucy Ellis Allen and unidentified woman, [ca. 1897-1898]
Photographer unknown.Printout of a photopositive taken from a glass plate negative.The original glass plate negative has been removed to the MHS Photo Archives (#6.xxx) and is 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.
Allen family: Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903) and other family members, 6 June 1899
Photographer unknown.Allen family: Lucy Ellis Allen (1867-1943), Gustaf Arnold Nielsen (1888-1960), Caroline Swift Bassett Allen (1830-1915), Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903), Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913), Edwin Bjorne Nielsen (1876-1958), and others in front of the Allen family home in Linekin, Me., 1903
Photographer unknown.Allen family: Joseph Addison Allen (1819-1904), Noah Allen (b. 1807), and William Cowper Allen (1815-1909), [1903]
Photographer unknown.Allen family: Caroline Swift Bassett Allen (1830-1915), Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913), and Lucy Ellis Allen (1867-1943), [ca. 1905]
Photographer unknown (Boston, Mass.).Allen family: Caroline Swift Bassett Allen (1830-1915) and Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913), [ca. 1905]
Photographer unknown (Boston, Mass.).Cropped version of Photo. #247.336 above.
Allen family: Caroline Swift Bassett Allen (1830-1915), Lucy Ellis Allen (1867-1943), and other family members, [ca. 1910-1915]
Photographer unknown.Allen family: Caroline Swift Bassett Allen (1830-1915), Lucy Ellis Allen (1867-1943), and others in Cuba, 1 Apr. 1911
Photographer(s) unknown.2 photographs (one torn).Allen family: Women at the beach, possibly including Ruby Margaret Keefer (1887-1975), [ca. 1915-1920]
Photographer unknown.Allen family: Ruby Margaret Keefer (1887-1975) and Lucy Ellis Allen (1867-1943), [ca. 1935]
Photographer unknown.Davis family: Dora May Drew (later Babbitt) (1877-1944) and unidentified Chinese man, Mar. 1890
Photographer unknown.Inscription on verso: "Dora on Ruby, held by the mafoo. Peking, China, March 1890."
Davis family: Lucille C. Davis (later Keet) (b. 1884), Annie C. Rommel Davis (d. 1921), and Allen Rommel Davis (1886-1894), 25 Dec. 1892
Taken by Entrekin (Philadelphia, Pa.).Cabinet card.Dela Court family: Tom Edward Dela Court (1931-2010), Paul Allen Dela Court (b. 1934), and another child, Aug. 1938
Photographer unknown.Enclosed in envelope with inscription: "Stepbrother to the Nielsen's boys." The connection between the Dela Courts and Nielsens is unclear.
Derby/Rogers family: Mary Ann Allen Derby (1812-1893) and Henry Shipley Rogers (1882-1934), 1889
Taken by Partridge (Boston and Brookline, Mass.).Cabinet card.Keefer family: Sophia P. Keefer (later Hoaglin) (1892-1976) and Ruby Margaret Keefer (1887-1975), [ca. 1893-1894]
Taken by Courtney (Canton, Ohio).Cabinet card.Lane family: Lucy Marie Lane (later Simpson) (1851-1921) and Frederick Turner Lane (1848-1919), 1862
Taken by H. F. Warren (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Nickerson family: Joshua Granville Nickerson (b. 1827), Anna C. Bassett Nickerson (b. 1838), Sarah R. Bassett Wheeler (1836-1925), and others, [ca. 1885-1890]
Photographer unknown.Inscription on verso: "Old Sconset House / Sanford Cottage / Sarah Easton / Sarah Baxter / Martha Baxter / Eliza Nevins / Sarah Hallett / Carrie Nickerson / Mrs. Pearson / Mrs. Sanford / Anna Kelley / Amelia Wilbur / J. G. Nickerson / Mrs. Jas. Barker / Anna Nickerson / Sarah Wheeler."
Nielsen family: [Thora Ingebretsen Nielsen (later Halverson) (1857-1897) and Edwin Bjorne Nielsen (1876-1958)], [1877]
Taken by Davis Brothers (Portsmouth, N.H.).Tintype.Nielsen family: Unidentified [Nielsen or Ingebretsen] family members, [ca. 1877]
Taken by Davis Brothers (Portsmouth, N.H.).Tintype.Nielsen family: Lucia Amalia Schueg (later Nielsen) (1894-1993) and unidentified girl, [ca. 1907-1908]
Photographer unknown.Nielsen family: Lucia Amalia Schueg (later Nielsen) (1894-1993) and four unidentified young women, [ca. 1911-1912]
Photographer unknown.Nielsen family: Arthur Hopkins Rice (1914-1992), Ellnora Richter Rice (1885-1981), and Josephine Richter Rice (later Colvocoresses) (1912-1995), [1915]
Photographer(s) unknown.2 photographs.Nielsen family: Lucia Amalia Schueg Nielsen (1894-1993) in wedding dress with unidentified woman, [1917]
Photographer unknown.Nielsen family: Edwin Bjorne Nielsen (1876-1958), John Herndon Rice (1917-1988), Ellnora Richter Rice (1885-1981), Josephine Richter Rice (later Colvocoresses) (1912-1995), Arthur Hopkins Rice (1914-1992), Edwin Henry Nielsen (1918-2011), and Lucia Amalia Schueg Nielsen (1894-1993), [1918-1919]
Photographer unknown.Nielsen family: John Herndon Rice (1917-1988), Josephine Richter Rice (later Colvocoresses) (1912-1995), Arthur Hopkins Rice (1914-1992), and Edwin Henry Nielsen (1918-2011), [1918-1919]
Photographer(s) unknown.3 photographs.Nielsen family: Josephine Richter Rice (later Colvocoresses) (1912-1995), Arthur Hopkins Rice (1914-1992), Ellnora Richter Rice (1885-1981), and John Herndon Rice (1917-1988), 1919
Taken by Bachrach.Nielsen family: Arthur Hopkins Rice (1914-1992), John Herndon Rice (1917-1988), and Josephine Richter Rice (later Colvocoresses) (1912-1995), [ca. 1923-1924]
Photographer unknown.Plimpton family: [Florence Wight Plimpton (b. 1859), Cora Gertrude Plimpton (later Johnson) (1854-1932), and Clara Ella Plimpton (later Newell) (1852-1931)], [ca. 1862-1863]
Taken by Black (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Plimpton family: [Waldo Lewis Plimpton (b. 1866), Cora Gertrude Plimpton (later Johnson) (1854-1932), Clara Ella Plimpton (later Newell) (1852-1931), and Florence Wight Plimpton (b. 1859)], [ca. 1874-1875]
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Washburn family: Ellen Burt Allen Washburn (1855-1917) and Lucy Christiana Washburn (later Rogers) (1896-1974), Dec. 1896
Photographer unknown.Washburn family: [Ellen Burt Allen Washburn (1855-1917), Lucy Christiana Washburn (later Rogers) (1896-1974), George Washburn (1850-1926)], and two unidentified boys, [ca. 1899-1900]
Taken by Blanchard (Los Angeles, Calif.).Cabinet card.Unidentified family groups, 1890-1894 and undated
12 photographs.Unidentified group portraits of members of the Allen and related families. Included are cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and other photographs by Allen, Conly, and Whipple, all of Boston, Mass.; Preble & Jordan of Waterville, Me.; Edwards of St. Stephen, New Brunswick; and unidentified photographers.
C. Photograph albums, ca. 1860-1875
This subseries consists of two photograph albums, one primarily containing cartes de visite and the other containing miniature tintypes.
Carte de visite album, [ca. 1860]-1875
This photograph album was compiled for Ellis and Lucy Jane (Lane) Allen and contains photographs of their children, grandchildren, and other family members. Many subjects are unidentified and may include non-relatives. All photographs are cartes de visite unless otherwise indicated, and some are duplicates of cartes de visite in Series I.A. Captions in quotations are taken from album pages or verso sides of photographs.
Allen, Sarah Caroline (1861-1897) and Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913), [Dec. 1863]
Photographer unknown.Allen, Nathaniel Topliff (1823-1903), [Apr. 1862]
Photographer unknown.Allen, Caroline Swift Bassett (1830-1915), [ca. 1866]
Taken by H. F. Warren (Waltham, Mass.).Allen, George Ellis (1817-1888), [ca. 1860]
Photographer unknown.Allen, Susan Maria Treat (1818-1888), [ca. 1860]
Photographer unknown.Allen, Minnie Treat (later Chase) (1860-1934), [Dec. 1862]
Photographer unknown.Allen, Minnie Treat (later Chase) (1860-1934), 1875
Taken by G. P. Lasselle (Boston, Mass.).Allen, Ellen Burt (later Washburn) (1855-1917), [ca. 1870]
Photographer unknown.Small photograph on same page as Photo. #247.387 below.Allen, Rosa Smith (1859-1911), [ca. 1871]
Taken by Richardson (Boston, Mass.).Small photograph on same page as Photo. #247.386 above.Allen, Lucy Temple Burt (1822-1875), [ca. 1865-1870]
Taken by J. W. Black (Boston, Mass.).Allen, Ellen Burt (later Washburn) (1855-1917), 1862
Taken by J. W. Black (Boston, Mass.).Allen, Rosa Smith (1859-1911), June 1863
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, "Alfie," undated
Photographer unknown.Allen, Caroline Augusta Kittredge (1833-1897), [ca. 1862]
Taken by C. Seaver, Jr. (Boston, Mass.).[no photograph]
[no photograph]
Davis, Joseph Allen (1843-1863), [ca. 1861-1863]
Taken by Fisher Bros. (Boston, Mass.).Unidentified man, undated
Photographer unknown.Davis, Lucy Elinor (1855-1881), Nov. 1866
Photographer unknown.Davis, Seth, undated
Taken by G. H. Loomis (Boston, Mass.).Unidentified woman, undated
Taken by G. H. Loomis (Boston, Mass.).Clark, Irvin, 1875
Taken by T. R. Burnham (Boston, Mass.).Plimpton, James Leonard (1828-1911), [ca. 1860]
Photographer unknown.Unidentified woman, undated
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, undated
Taken by C. Seaver, Jr. (Boston, Mass.).Unidentified woman, undated
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, undated
Photographer unknown.Unidentified woman, undated
Taken by C. Seaver, Jr. (Boston, Mass.).Unidentified man, undated
Taken by C. Seaver, Jr. (Boston, Mass.).Unidentified woman, undated
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, undated
Taken by Chute (Boston, Mass.).Unidentified woman, undated
Taken by Frank K. Houston (Holliston, Mass.).Lacerda, Antonio Augusto de (1858-1874), [ca. 1870]
Taken by J. J. Hawes (Boston, Mass.).Inscription on verso: "Antonio my favorite Boy."
"Mrs. Swain of Nantucket," undated
Photographer unknown.Miniature tintype on paper backing.Sawin, Moses (b. 1794), 1862
Photographer unknown.Unidentified woman, undated
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, undated
Photographer unknown.Unidentified woman, undated
Photographer unknown.Tintype.Unidentified man, undated
Taken by W. J. Gradon.Unidentified woman, undated
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, undated
Photographer unknown.Tintype.Unidentified man, undated
Photographer unknown.Tintype.Lane, Lucy P., undated
Photographer unknown.Richardson, Edward [or Edwin], "Manchester, N.H.," undated
Taken by Lyman W. Colby (Manchester, N.H.).Bird, Mary, "Walpole, Mass.," undated
Photographer unknown.Miniature tintype.Allen, Asa Smith (1797-1876), [ca. 1865-1870]
Photographer unknown.[Allen, Alma Annette (later Smith) (1840-1928)], "Etta Allen Clear Lake," [ca. 1860]
Photographer unknown.Allen, Albert Barnes (b. 1851), [ca. 1863-1864]
Taken by E. R. Curtis (Madison, Wis.).Reid, Robert Asa (1865-1946), [ca. 1867]
Taken by Higgins' Photographic Gallery (Stockton, Calif.).Reid, Elizabeth Lydia (1863-1961), [ca. 1866]
Taken by Abell's Star Gallery (Stockton, Calif.).Reid, Elizabeth Atwood Allen (1837-1931), [ca. 1867]
Taken by Higgins' Photographic Gallery (Stockton, Calif.).Tintype album, [ca. 1860-1870]
Photographer(s) unknown.This album contains 40 miniature tintypes (four to a page) of unidentified individuals, probably members of the Allen family or a related family.
D. Views, ca. 1885-1930s
Arranged alphabetically by location.
This subseries contains photographs of Allen family homes in Maine and Massachusetts, including the Medfield, Mass. homestead; exterior and interior views of Nathaniel T. Allen's house in West Newton, Mass., including the tennis courts; photographs of the Smith College campus, possibly taken by Lucy Ellis Allen when she was a student in the late 1880s; and other views.
Bar Harbor, Me.: Allen family summer home, undated
Photographer(s) unknown.2 photographs.Granville, Ohio: Denison University campus, undated
Photographer(s) unknown.5 photographs.Linekin, Me.: Allen family home, undated
Taken by McDougall & Keefe (Boothbay Harbor, Me.).Postcard (torn).Medfield, Mass: Allen Homestead, 6 June 1899
Photographer unknown.Medfield, Mass.: Allen Homestead farm and workers, undated
Photographer unknown.Medfield, Mass.: Peak House, [ca. 1902]
Photographer unknown.Nantucket, Mass., July 1889
Taken by Platt (Nantucket, Mass.).5 photographs.Nantucket, Mass.: "Powers cottage," undated
Taken by Wyer (Nantucket, Mass.).Nantucket, Mass.: Sanford Cottage, July 1891
Photographer unknown.Northampton, Mass.: Smith College campus, [ca. 1885-1889]
Possibly taken by Lucy Ellis Allen.15 photographs.West Newton, Mass.: Nathaniel T. Allen House, 35 Webster St. (exterior), ca. 1885
Taken by United States View Co. (Cambridgeport, Mass.).West Newton, Mass.: Nathaniel T. Allen House, 35 Webster St. (exterior), undated
Photographer(s) unknown.17 photographs and postcards.West Newton, Mass.: Nathaniel T. Allen House, 35 Webster St. (exterior), undated
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.) and unknown photographer(s).6 photographs.West Newton, Mass.: Nathaniel T. Allen House, 35 Webster St. (interior), 1889 and undated
Photographer(s) unknown.5 photographs.West Newton, Mass.: Nathaniel T. Allen House, 35 Webster St. (interior), undated
Photographer unknown.West Newton, Mass.: Sarah Caroline Allen Cooney's parlor at the Annex, 1892
Photographer unknown.Miscellaneous views, 1889-[1930s]
Taken by various photographers.2 photographs and 1 postcard.E. Gustaf Arnold Nielsen photographs, [ca. 1917-1921]
Gustaf Arnold Nielsen (1888-1960) was a ward of the Allen family, the godson of Nathaniel T. Allen, and an Allen School student. This subseries consists of photographs taken on a logging trip to Alaska in 1921 and probably also during Nielsen's service in World War I. Subjects and photographers are unidentified, but a few photographs feature Nielsen and possibly his brother Edwin. Included are photographs of camps, men in uniform, and forests, as well as one photograph of an Indigenous Alaskan woman.
II. School photographs, 1845-1931digital content
This series consists of individual and group portraits of students and teachers; a few photographs of students' family members; and Carlos Roman Yznaga photographs from his time as a student and after his return to Cuba, including portraits of his children and photographs of his property in Cuba.
A. Individual portraits, ca. 1850-ca. 1930digital content
Arranged alphabetically. Unidentified subjects filed at the end.
This subseries contains cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and other photographs of students of the Allen School and Misses Allen School, taken both while they were students and later, as well as a smaller number of teachers and other associated individuals. Included are African American students, as well as students from Cuba, Panama, Japan, and other countries. Many photographs have been personalized with messages to the Allens. Some former students also sent the Allens photographs of family members, and these are included here.
Adams, Adeline Elvise (later Lambert) (1844-1875), May 1868
Taken by E. L. Wires (Milford, Mass.).Carte de visite.Antoine, Mary Hannah (later Coleman) (b. 1861), 3 Feb. [1877]
Taken by E. L. Goss (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Arbuckle, Maclyn (1866-1931), [10 Mar. 1881]
Photographer unknown (Galveston, Tex.).Tintype.Arias-Feraud, Ramon (1848-1920), ca. 1866-Apr. 1868
Taken by R. J. Chute (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Arthes, Guillermo, 19 June 1897
Taken by Metcalf (West Newton, Mass.).Baker, Josiah Quincy (1848-1929), ca. Feb. 1865-Mar. 1866
Taken by Seaver (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Bampfield, Robert Smalls (1886-1964), [Oct. 1886]
Taken by George L. Cook (Charleston, S.C.).Cabinet card.The son of student Elizabeth Lydia Smalls Bampfield (1858-1959).
Batchelder, Joseph Frederick (b. 1858), [ca. 1872-1874]
Taken by Everett (Manchester, N.H.).Carte de visite.Batchelder, Mrs. S. A., undated
Taken by Bradley & Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Carte de visite.Bates, [Mary Abigail (later Brown) (b. 1841)], [ca. 1865-1870]
Taken by Allen & Rowell (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Baxter, Edwin Winthrop (1846-1910), [ca. 1856-1858]
Taken by Perry (Waltham, Mass.).Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Bemis, Anthony Jones (1876-1942), 1894
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Bent, Susan Roby (later Marvin) (1872-1961), [ca. 1885-1890]
Taken by Hastings (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Blais, Wolleston Louis (b. 1873), 5 Jan. 1896
Taken by Green's Art Studio (Boston, Mass.).Branderiz, Antonio Clement (b. ca. 1859), 7 Dec. 1877
Taken by Webster (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Breed, George Horace (1876-1956), Sep. 1898
Photographer unknown.Brinley, William Bridge (b. 1842), [1850s]
Photographer unknown.Sixteenth-plate daguerreotype in leather case (image faded).This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Daguerreotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 1).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Brown, Charles Mortimer (1867-1897), [ca. 1882-1884]
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Brown, Charles Mortimer (1867-1897), [ca. 1885-1887]
Taken by Rhine (Fort Worth, Tex.).Cabinet card.Brown, Lawrence Milton (1873-1958), [ca. 1888]
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Brown, William Waterman (1845-1924), [ca. 1860-1861]
Taken by Perry (Waltham, Mass.).Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Browne, William Leggate (1851-1892), ca. 1864-1868
Taken by E. F. Smith (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Burnet, Bessie, "of Chicago," Aug. 1890
Photographer unknown.Burr, Edwin Burton (1843-1872), [ca. 1858]
Photographer unknown.Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Burton, Harold Hitz (1888-1964), "in Swiss Costume," July 1894
Taken by Osw. Welti (Lausanne, Switzerland).Carte de visite.Caldwell, William Hutson (1866-1947), [ca. 1893]
Taken by Root (Chicago, Ill.).Cabinet card.Campbell, Frederick Plumb (1861-1933), 1879
Taken by W. A. Webster (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Clapp, Anna Cushing (later Olin) (b. 1877), [ca. 1890]
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Clapp, Anna Cushing (later Olin) (b. 1877), 21 May 1895
Taken by Emily Stokes (Boston, Mass.).Clarke, Joseph Thacher (1856-1921), 1866
Taken by Black & Case (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Clarke, Joseph Thacher (1856-1921), undated
Taken by F. Werner (Munich, Germany).Photograph of a painting by Benes Knupfer.Cole, undated
Taken by Thos. Naughton (Champaign, Ill.).Carte de visite.Crumpler, Arthur (1836-1910), Jan. 1864
Taken by S. Masury (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Culbertson, Joseph Simpson (1855-1904), [1872]
Taken by E. L. Allen (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Damon, John Mathues (1850-1891), 16 Sep. 1866
Taken by Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown (Philadelphia, Pa.).Carte de visite.Davis, Frank Augustus (b. 1850), 13 June 1869
Taken by Moore Brothers (Springfield, Mass.).Carte de visite.Day, William Henry (b. 1883), [ca. 1888]
Taken by N. L. Stebbins (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Possibly the son of student Austin Phelps Day (b. 1841).
Dorr, Eben May (1844-1898), [ca. 1855-1856]
Taken by Davis & Co. (Boston, Mass.).Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Draper, Charles Russell (b. 1867), undated
Created by D. Dudley (Boston, Mass.).Silhouette.Drost, Louise Marie (later Caldwell) (1864-1909), 22 June 1882
Taken by McCormick & Heald (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Drury, Virginia (later Shipman) (1907-1991), [ca. 1930]
Taken by Bachrach.Eastman, Clevenger Allston (formerly Clevenger Allston Powers) (b. 1866), June 1878
Taken by Hardy (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Eaton, George Partridge (1865-1882), [ca. 1881]
Photographer unknown.Cabinet card.Inscription on verso: "For Lucy. George P. Eaton's Photo. Drowned. Jan. 7./82 in Charles river falling through the thin ice. A noble boy. 16 yrs & 6 mos. old. Had been in our school and family nearly 4 yrs. son of Lucien Eaton St. Louis Mo."
Emerson, Charles Wesley (1855-1936), May 1872
Taken by E. L. Allen (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Emmett, Marietta (later Pantages), [ca. 1912-1918]
Taken by Corn (Cardiff, Wales).Postcard.Evans, Mr., 1897
Taken by Kuebler (Philadelphia, Pa.).Cabinet card.Fairbrother, Adele Jackson (later Johnson) (1889-1966), [1892]
Taken by William A. Webster (Waltham, Mass.).Cabinet card.Farnham, Cleve., Aug. 1894
Photographer unknown.Tintype.Fitch, Benjamin Franklin (1877-1956), 20 Dec. 1893
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Fontarive, Julia Maria (later Destre, later Hudon) (b. 1843), 1861
Photographer unknown.Forster, Edward Jacob (1846-1896), 1857
Photographer unknown.Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Forster, Edward Jacob (1846-1896), Nov. 1880
Taken by Devine & Co. (Charlestown, Mass.).Carte de visite.Foster, William [Durant (b. 1877)], [ca. 1889]
Taken by Elmer Chickering (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Freeman, William, "Sandwich," 1869
Taken by G. H. Loomis (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.French, William Harrison (1837-1906), [ca. 1850-1852]
Taken by [John B. Heywood] (Waltham, Mass.).Ninth-plate daguerreotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Daguerreotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 1).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Gilbert, Minnie, "Grand Rapids Mich.," [1860s]
Taken by J. W. Black (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Gilmore, Emma Louise (later Mee) (1867-1949), 1887
Taken by Holland & Roberts (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Gladding, Louise Ruggles (1908-1991), 1927
Photographer unknown.Goddard, John Doane Barnes (1839-1865), [ca. 1851-1852]
Photographer unknown.Ninth-plate daguerreotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Daguerreotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 1).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
[Goering, Louis Robert (1835-1877)], [ca. 1875-1880]
Taken by E. Anthony (New York, N.Y.).Carte de visite.Goodnow, Agnes Louise (later Dolan) (b. 1864), Mar. 1877
Taken by Motes [(Atlanta, Ga.)].Carte de visite.Goodnow, Sara Warren (1860-1918), 1876
Taken by Smith & Motes (Atlanta, Ga.).Carte de visite.Greene, Mary Anne (1857-1936), May 1875
Taken by Manchester Bros. (Providence, R.I.).Carte de visite.Greene, Mary Anne (1857-1936), [ca. 1880]
Taken by Manchester (Providence, R.I.).Carte de visite.Greene, Mary Anne (1857-1936), [ca. 1920]
Photographer unknown.Greene, Talbot Pitman (b. 1855), Jan. 1869
Taken by Wasson (Brooklyn, N.Y.).Tintype.Guppy, Benjamin Wilder (1869-1960), 1889
Taken by G. Waldon Smith (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Guppy, Benjamin Wilder, Jr. (b. 1893), 4 Mar.1894
Taken by G. Waldon Smith (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.The son of student Benjamin Wilder Guppy (1869-1960).
H., J. C., 7 Dec. 1862
Taken by F. L. Lay [(Boston, Mass.)].Carte de visite.Inscription on verso: "Rochester Dec 7 /62 JCH." Subject is a young woman.
Hall, Frank Gardner (b. 1873), [ca. 1895]digital content
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card (2 copies).Both copies inscribed on verso by Frank Gardner Hall, one to "Mrs. & Mr. N. T. Allen" and the other to "Miss Sarah / from one of the worst boys that she ever knew."
Copy 1
Copy 2
[Hanson, Henry Tappan (b. 1849)], [ca. 1861-1863]
Taken by Allen (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Haug, John Sobieski (b. 1883), 14 Sep. 1896
Taken by Geo. W. Day (Norristown, Pa.).Cabinet card.Haug, Thaddeus Leon Euclid (1885-1957), Sep. 1896
Taken by Geo. W. Day (Norristown, Pa.).Cabinet card.Hawes, Samuel Moses (1846-1873) and George Francis Robinson (1843-1914), ca. 1858-1862digital content
Photographer(s) unknown.2 photographs on recto and verso sides.Samuel Morse Hawes (1846-1873) (recto)
George Francis Robinson (1843-1914) (verso)
Hayes, Carlisle Robinson (1878-1932), Dec. 1888
Taken by J. W. Black & Co. (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Hildreth, Charles Allen (b. 1844), [ca. 1855-1858]
Taken by James & Co. (Boston, Mass.).Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Hilyard, Charles, "Orleans," [ca. 1855-1861]
Photographer unknown.Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Hollander, Sumner Russ (b. 1874) on pony Fizz, 4 Nov. 1890
Photographer unknown.Holway, Annie Burlingame (1871-1953), [ca. 1888-1890]
Taken by Smith (Sandwich, Mass.).Cabinet card.Iaukea, Curtis Piehau (1855-1940), [ca. 1883]
Taken by Davey (Honolulu, Hawaii).Jackson, Daniel Dana (1870-1941), 1889
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Jennings, Ina Frances (later Richardson) (b. 1884), 20 May 1895
Taken by Barritt (Hyde Park, Mass.).Cabinet card.Johns, William H., Jr. (1841-1882), [ca. 1859-1860]
Photographer unknown.Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Johnson, Frank Linwood (b. 1861), Mar. 1880
Taken by McCormick & Heald (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Jones, Henry Swan (1850-1916), 15 Nov.-15 Dec. 1865
Taken by I. N. Packard (Stoughton, Mass.).Carte de visite.Knight, William Rupp (b. 1874), 23 Mar. 1889
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Kondo, Kanechi (b. ca. 1847), Jan. 1872
Taken by A. F. Bussell (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Inscription on verso in Japanese characters.
Lacerda, Antonio Augusto de (1858-1874), May 1874
Taken by Allen & Rowell (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Lambert, Charles Henry (1850-1866), Jan. 1861
Photographer unknown.Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Loring, Albert Carpenter (1858-1932), June 1877
Taken by W. A. Webster (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Lucia, Rose Elizabeth (1874-1938), 2 Mar. 1891
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Mann, Elizabeth F. (later Swan) (b. 1902), [ca. 1908-1910]
Photographer unknown.Mann, Elizabeth F. (later Swan) (b. 1902), 1917
Taken by Purdy (Boston, Mass.).Mann, Elizabeth F. (later Swan) (b. 1902), 1922
Taken by Bachrach.Mann, Ruth Draper, 1917
Taken by Purdy (Boston, Mass.).Masforroll, Manuel, [10] Apr. 1872
Taken by Frank Rowell (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Maynard, Everett Clark (1863-1934), Apr. 1874
Taken by L. W. Cook (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Maynard, Florence Alrose (later Thompson) (b. 1856), 17 Feb. 1874
Taken by L. W. Cook (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.McNeil, William Hathaway (1842-1920), [ca. 1855]
Taken by James & Co. (Boston, Mass.).Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Mead, Emory Leslie (1855-1937), 6 Nov. 1894
Taken by K. T. Sheldon (West Winsted, Conn.).Cabinet card.Megata, Tanetaro (1853-1926), [ca. 1880-1885]
Taken by R. Maruki (Tokyo, Japan).Cabinet card.Meigs, John Liggett (1884-1931), 1 Jan. 1895
Taken by Seaver (West Newton, Mass.).Montgomery, Harry Mortimer (1861-1931), [ca. 1873-1874]
Taken by A. Marshall (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Montoya, Jose Maria (1875-1906), 4 June 1891
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Moran, Arvilla Lindon (later Hutchins) (d. 1933), June 1877
Taken by W. A. Webster (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Moran, Howard Parker (1892-1894), [24 May] 1892
Taken by Herman Wunder (Brooklyn, N.Y.).Cabinet card.The son of student Robert Galloway Moran (b. 1866).
Morey, Samuel Wooley (1841-1877), [ca. 1860-1865]
Taken by Higgins & Co. (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Morrill, Samuel George (later George Henry Morrill, Jr.) (1855-1932), [1872]
Taken by E. L. Allen (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Mott-Smith, Martha Paty (b. 1865), [ca. 1883-1885]
Taken by Rice (Washington, D.C.).Cabinet card.Mulford, David Roscoe (1878-1953), [1897]
Taken by Metcalf (West Newton, Mass.).Murchie, William Todd (1880-1929), 1897
Taken by Metcalf (West Newton, Mass.).Osborn, Charles Dana (1853-1877), Mar. 1872
Taken by Jas. W. Turner (Boston, Mass.).[Parker, Edward Everett (1852-1896)], [ca. 1868-1870]
Taken by Jones (Salem, Mass.).Carte de visite.Inscription on verso: "Parker? Now Prof Elocution."
Pettigrew, William Moses (b. 1867), 4 Aug. 1887
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Pierce, Hattie Hill (later Cole) (b. 1870), 1890
Taken by Newell & Dow (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Pierce, Hattie Hill (later Cole) (b. 1870), [ca. 1890-1895]
Photographer unknown.Pinchback, Pinckney Napoleon (1863-1900), Apr. 1874
Taken by Allen & Rowell (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Piper, Elizabeth Jane (later Ensley) (d. 1919), Feb. 1870
Taken by E. Humblot (Dresden, Germany).Carte de visite.Sources give Elizabeth Jane Piper Ensley's birth year as 1847 or 1848, but she appears to be younger in this photograph.
Pope, May Courtenay (later Cranston) (1870-1918), Nov. 1887
Taken by Haefer (Hancock, Mich.).Carte de visite.Pope, May Courtenay (later Cranston) (1870-1918), 1893
Taken by S. L. Stein, (Milwaukee, Wis.).Cabinet card.Pratt, Alfred Stuart (1861-1952), 1867
Taken by Whipple (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Pratt, Burtie, 1867
Taken by Whipple (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Subject is a child about five years old, probably a relative of Alfred Stuart Pratt.
Ralston, Samuel Fry (1859-1888), Dec. 1874
Taken by Allen & Rowell (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Ralston, William Chapman (1863-1924), Dec. 1874
Taken by Allen & Rowell (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Read, Mary Anna (later Keith) (1842-1891), June 1869
Taken by Warren Bros. (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Redding, Ellita (later Gee) (d. 1948), 1893
Taken by Howland and Lonergan (San Francisco, Calif.).Reese, Ella Pickens (1855-1948), 1881
Taken by G. W. Davis (Washington, D.C. and Richmond, Va.).Cabinet card.Reynolds, Daniel Carpenter (1852-1888), ca. Sep. 1866-Apr. 1868
Taken by T. R. Burnham (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Robinson, Franklin Frayne (1868-1890), [ca. 1888-1890]
Taken by Rhine (Fort Worth, Tex.).Cabinet card.Robinson, George Francis (1843-1914)
Safford, William Reginald (ca. 1859-ca. 1882), Apr. 1874
Taken by Allen & Rowell (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Schillinger, John Jacob (1855-1888), Feb. 1872
Taken by Peter Baab (Yorkville, N.Y.).Carte de visite.Seaverns, Mabelle [or Mabel] Smith (later Ames) (b. 1870), 2 June 1886
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Seley, Chapin Munger (1875-1967), [Oct. 1893]
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Shaw, Ethel (1874-1892), 20 May 1889
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Sherman, George Douglass (1854-1921), [1872]digital content
Taken by Allen (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite (2 copies).Copy 1
Copy 2
Sherrill, Ruth D., Jan. 1895
Photographer unknown.Skidmore, Frederick Hicks (1874-1953), [ca. 1888-1890]
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Smalls, Elizabeth Lydia (later Bampfield) (1858-1959), June 1875
Taken by Allen & Rowell (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.[Smith, George W.], [1860s]
Taken by F. L. Lay (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Smith, Lillie (b. ca. 1861), [ca. 1873-1875]
Taken by Warren (Cambridgeport, Mass.).Carte de visite.Spear, May [or Mary] Lizzie (later Kleinhaus) (b. 1859), June 1875
Taken by G. P. Lasselle (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Stanton, Frank, Jr., "7 months old," 1920
Photographer unknown.Stiles, Susan Elizabeth and Gilbert Stiles III, undated
Photographer unknown.Stoddard, Theodore Lothrop (1883-1950) in N.H.S. Signal Corps uniform, [ca. 1900]
Taken by Lemont (Waltham, Mass.).Stone, Frank Wetherell (b. 1870), 1884
Taken by Steffens (Chicago, Ill.).Cabinet card.Studley, Eleanor, 25 Mar. 1918
Taken by Flett (Atlantic City, N.J.).Postcard.Suarez, Manuel Pedro (b. ca. 1850), July 1865
Taken by Henry F. Warren (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Suarez, Manuel Pedro (b. ca. 1850), Feb. 1866
Photographer unknown.Carte de visite.Sutro, Alice Helen (later Brems) (1866-1913), Apr. 1882
Taken by McCormick & Heald (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Swan, Caleb Hayward (1857-1905), [ca. 1867-1870]
Taken by Frank Rowell (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Taylor, Sarah Wingate (d. 1965) and William Watson Taylor, [1908]
Taken by Ellis Moore (Newton, Mass.).Taylor, Sarah Wingate (d. 1965) and others, [1908]
Photographer unknown.Taylor, Sarah Wingate (d. 1965) and others, [1908]
Photographer unknown.Taylor, Sarah Wingate (d. 1965), [ca. 1925-1935]
Photographer unknown.Taylor, Sarah Wingate (d. 1965), [ca. 1925-1935]
Photographer unknown.Taylor, Sarah Wingate (d. 1965), [ca. 1935-1940]
Taken by Erin [Kahely].Thompson, William Couillard (1875-1913), [ca. 1895]
Taken by Barentzen (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Tiffany, Francis (1827-1908), 25 Dec. 1896
Taken by Notman Photographic Co. (Boston, Mass.).The father of students Mary Allison Tiffany (1853-1925), Francis Buchanan Tiffany (1855-1936), Walter Checkley Tiffany (b. 1857), and Esther Brown Tiffany (1858-1918).
Tileston, Gussie, [ca. 1860]
Taken by F. L. Lay (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Tileston, Gussie, 12 Nov. 1862
Photographer unknown (Geneva, N.Y.).Carte de visite.Totman, Fred Nichols (b. 1873), 1891
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Totman, Fred Nichols (b. 1873), 1891
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Tripp, Roziltha Jane (later Dike) (1860-1922), [ca. 1880]
Taken by Elmer Chickering (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Turner, Florence Dudley (later Price, later Morgan), May 1902
Photographer unknown.Turner, George Henry (1841-1864), [ca. 1855-1857]
Taken by C. T. Sylvester (Boston, Mass.).Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Turner, Henry William, [1902]
Taken by Sheldon.Urbino, Levina Buoncuore (1813-1888), [ca. 1883-1888]
Taken by Needham (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Vasquez, Manuel Joaquin (ca. 1846-1871), [ca. 1870]
Photographer unknown.Miniature tintype on paper backing.Vasquez, Manuel Joaquin (ca. 1846-1871), [ca. 1870]
Taken by E. V. Foss (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Inscription on verso: "Manuel Vasquez / Lost at Sea 1872? / returning to his home / Panama."
Wallee, Rachel A., 28 Nov. 1881
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Carte de visite.Washburn, Nathan (1844-1866), 1863
Taken by D. T. Burrell (Bridgewater, Mass.).Carte de visite.Whitney, Frederick (b. 1843), [ca. 1858]
Taken by Perry (Waltham, Mass.).Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Williams, Charley May (b. 1892), 9 Mar. 1895
Taken by J. E. Daniel (Fort Worth, Tex.).Cabinet card.The son of student Charles Story Williams (1867-1917).
Wilson, Henry (1812-1875) in Civil War uniform, [ca. 1861-1865]
Taken by Brady (Washington, D.C.).Carte de visite.The father of student Henry Hamilton Wilson (1846-1866).
Wilson, Henry (1812-1875), undated
Engraved by L. Prang & Co. (Boston, Mass.).Engraving on carte-de-visite backing.Worster, Florence Adelaide (later Springfield) (b. 1862), June 1877
Taken by W. A. Webster (Waltham, Mass.).Carte de visite.Yznaga, Carlos Roman (1870-1910)
Unidentified boy, [ca. 1855-1861]
Taken by Perry (Waltham, Mass.).Ninth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Ambrotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 2).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Unidentified students and teachers, [ca. 1860]-1925digital content
96 photographs.The bulk of these photographs (85) consists of portraits of unidentified female students of the Misses Allen School taken in the early 20th century. Most of the photographers are unknown, but include Bachrach, Marceau, Sue Rice, Sands, Sarony, and others. Some photographs are personalized to "Miss Lucy." The other 11 photographs include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and other photographs by Allen & Rowell (Boston, Mass.), McCormick & Heald (Boston, Mass.), Bierstadt Brothers (New Bedford, Mass.), Vance's Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.), Humblot (Dresden, Germany), De Chute & Brooks (Montevideo, Uruguay), and unknown photographers. One tintype and a few cartes de visite depict unidentified Black students.
Unidentified family
Handwritten inscription on verso: "Mr. & Mrs. Allen"
Unidentified woman
Handwritten inscription on verso: "Miss Sarah."
Unidentified man
Unidentified woman
Unidentified child
Unidentified man
Unidentified boy
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Handwritten inscription on verso: "To Nath. Allen from the Maker. Jan/70"
Unidentified man
Handwritten inscription on verso: "Prof. Schmidt? or Goering?"
Unidentified man
Handwritten inscription on verso: "Mary [Alby?]"
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman with children
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman with child
Handwritten inscription: "Gainsbrough -17-"
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman in wedding dress
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Handwritten inscription: "[Horsman?]"
Unidentified woman
Handwritten inscription: "For [Joseph?] '13"
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified girl
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman with child
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Handwritten inscription: "Miss Lucy Love from Phyllis Dec. 25, '23"
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman sitting on bench
Unidentified woman
Handwritten inscription: "Lots of love To Miss Lucy From Martha"
Unidentified woman
Unidentified boy, [1904-1925]
Unidentified girls
Unidentified woman, [1904-1925]
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Handwritten inscription: "Sue Rice"
Unidentified girl
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Handwritten inscription: "[Garcele?]"
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman, [1904-1925]
Taken by BachrachUnidentified woman, [1904-1925]
Taken by BachrachHandwritten inscription: "Much love to my dear Miss Lucy from Laura"
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman in garden
Handwritten inscription: "To dear Miss Lucy with much love from Bernice"
Unidentified girl
Unidentified woman with child
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified girl ice skating
Photo clipping from unidentified newspaper.Unidentified girls ice skating
Photo clipping from unidentified newspaper.Unidentified girl
Unidentified woman, [1904-1925]
Unidentified woman
Unidentified girl, [1904-1925]
Unidentified woman, [1904-1925]
Unidentified woman, [1904-1925]
Unidentified woman, [1904-1925]
Unidentified woman, [1904-1925]
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman, [1904-1925]
Unidentified woman, [1904-1925]
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Taken by Cornish and Baker.Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Taken by Chamblain Studios, Boston.Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman, [1904-1925]
Unidentified woman in graduation cap and gown
Unidentified woman
Taken by Sands.Unidentified woman reading
Unidentified woman
Unidentified woman
Taken by Sands.Unidentified woman
Taken by Sands.Unidentified woman
Taken by Sands.Handwritten inscription, verso: "Loads o' love. Hubby"
Unidentified girl
Taken by Sands.Unidentified girl
Unidentified woman
Handwritten inscription: "Bestest love, Miss Lucy from Phyllis"
Unidentified woman
Handwritten inscription: "With love to Miss Lucy from Muriel"
Unidentified woman
Taken by Bachrach.Handwritten inscription: "To Miss Lucy with love from Phyllis"
Unidentified woman
Taken by Sarony.Handwritten inscription: "Maude [illegible last name], 1909"
Unidentified woman
Boarding students, [1872]digital content
Taken by E. L. Allen (Boston, Mass.).15 cartes de visite.Unidentified male boarding student
[Kondo, Kanechi (b. ca. 1847)]
[Shimidu, Jujoy Atsumori]
Unidentified male boarding student
Unidentified male boarding student
Unidentified male boarding student
Unidentified male boarding student
Unidentified male boarding student
Unidentified male boarding student
Unidentified male boarding student
Unidentified male boarding student
Unidentified male boarding student
Unidentified male boarding student
Unidentified female boarding student
Unidentified male boarding student
B. Group portraits, 1845-1931digital content
Arranged chronologically.
This subseries contains group portraits of Allen School and Misses Allen School classes, teachers and students on school grounds, school sports teams, class outings, and smaller groups of students. Included are several photographs taken in front of the original Allen School building at the corner of Washington and Highland Sts. in West Newton, Mass., and in front of Nathaniel T. Allen's house at 35 Webster Street, West Newton.
Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903) and others, probably at Bridgewater Normal School, [1845-1846]
Photographer unknown.Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903) and others, probably at Bridgewater Normal School, [1845-1846]
Photographer unknown.Students in front of Nathaniel T. Allen's house, some with baseball bats, ca. 1870digital content
Photographer unknown.1 photograph and 1 negative.Included is a key identifying subjects in the photograph.
Photograph
Negative
Students in front of the Allen School building, [ca. 1870]
Photographer unknown.Caroline Swift Bassett Allen (1830-1915) and other women in theatrical costumes, [ca. 1870-1875]
Taken by John Woodruff (Ottawa, Canada).Cabinet card.Subjects identified along the edges of the photograph: "[Lord] - Allen - Scott - Brigham - Miss [Davis] - M. B. Allen - Miss Davis - Miss Edwards - Miss Curtis - Mrs. Luke."
Allen family and boarding students, [1872]
Taken by E. L. Allen (Boston, Mass.).Reproduction of a collage.Students Smith and Brown, [ca. 1880s]
Photographer unknown.Tintype.Joel Haws (1876-1956) and Clifford Haws (1874-1966), [ca. 1882-1884]
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Students and teachers in front of Nathaniel T. Allen's house, some on bicycles, June 1886
Taken by A. H. Folsom (Boston, Mass.).Students and teachers in front of Nathaniel T. Allen's house, some on bicycles, June 1886
Taken by A. H. Folsom (Boston, Mass.).Boarding students in front of Joseph A. Allen's house, [ca. 1886]
Taken by A. H. Folsom (Boston, Mass.).Teachers and students in front of the Allen School building, [ca. 1886]
Taken by A. H. Folsom (Boston, Mass.).Teachers and students in front of the Allen School building, [ca. 1886]
Taken by A. H. Folsom (Boston, Mass.).Teachers and students in front of the Allen School building, [ca. 1886]
Taken by A. H. Folsom (Boston, Mass.).Teachers and students in front of the Allen School building, [ca. 1886]
Taken by A. H. Folsom (Boston, Mass.).Teachers and students in front of the Allen School building, [ca. 1886]
Taken by A. H. Folsom (Boston, Mass.).Teachers and students in front of the Allen School building, [ca. 1886]
Taken by A. H. Folsom (Boston, Mass.).Teachers and students in front of the Allen School building, [ca. 1886]
Taken by A. H. Folsom (Boston, Mass.).Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903) and his botany class, June 1887
Taken by A. E. Alden (Boston, Mass.).James Theodore Allen (1831-1900) and his Latin class, [June 1887]
Taken by A. E. Alden (Boston, Mass.).James Theodore Allen (1831-1900) and his class, [June 1887]
Taken by A. E. Alden (Boston, Mass.).Fanny Bassett Allen (1857-1913) and students, [ca. 1887]
Photographer unknown.Teachers and students, June 1888
Taken by A. E. Alden (Boston, Mass.).Mary Agnes Andrews (later Russell) (b. 1875) and Mollie Gertrude Kelley (later Schroeder) (1873-1971), [ca. 1888-1889]
Taken by C. Seaver, Jr. (West Newton, Mass.).Cate's Boat Sleigh in front of the Allen School, 14 Feb. 1889
Photographer unknown.Teachers and students at the minuteman statue in Concord, Mass., 24 May 1889
Taken by Bracey Curtis.Teachers and students at the minuteman statue in Concord, Mass., [24 May 1889]
Photographer unknown.Teachers and students at the minuteman statue in Concord, Mass., [24 May 1889]
Photographer unknown.Teachers and students, June 1889
Photographer unknown.Picnic at the Allen homestead, Medfield, Mass., 28 Sep. 1889
Taken by Harry C. Daniels and Dana B. Brigham, Jr.Picnic at the Allen homestead, Medfield, Mass., 28 Sep. 1889
Taken by Harry C. Daniels and Dana B. Brigham, Jr.Teachers and students, 1889
Photographer unknown.Teachers and students, 1889
Photographer unknown.Teachers and students, 1889
Photographer unknown.Allen family and boarding students, June 1890
Photographer unknown.Picnic at the Allen homestead, Medfield, Mass., 27 Sep. 1890
Photographer unknown.Inscription on verso in Nathaniel T. Allen's hand: "The school picnic on the great rock at Homestead 80 present."
Football team, 1890
Photographer unknown.Teachers and students, [1890]
Photographer unknown.Teachers and students, [1890]
Photographer unknown."The Annex boys," [1890]digital content
Photographer unknown.Cabinet card (2 copies).Subjects include: Brackley Azel Shaw (1878-1946), Benjamin Wishart (1878-1943), Arthur Royden Mackenzie (b. 1880), Kiles Paul Gleason (b. 1881), George Newton Gleason (b. 1882), Frank Arnold Bowers (b. 1880), James Randall O'Hara, Jr. (b. 1882), Ezra Charles Fitch, Jr. (1881-1917), and Victor Neal (b. 1881).
Copy 1
Copy 2
Frank Gardner Hall (b. 1873) and two other unidentified students, [ca. 1890]
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Female students, [ca. 1890-1891]
Taken by Odin Fritz (Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Subjects include (back row from left to right, middle row from left to right, front row from left to right): Anna Cushing Clapp (later Olin) (b. 1877), an unidentified young woman, Grace Ingraham (later Spear) (1875-1937), Alice Mary Thayer (later Whaley) (1874-1964), Mary Agnes Andrews (later Russell) (b. 1875), Ella Louise Kittredge (1873-1896), an unidentified young woman, and Mollie Gertrude Kelley (later Schroeder) (1873-1971).
Teachers and students, June 1891
Photographer unknown.Picnic at the Allen homestead, Medfield, Mass., Sep. 1892
Photographer unknown.Female students, [ca. 1892-1895]
Taken by Seaver (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Subjects include (back row from left to right, front row from left to right): Anna Brooks Carter (1878-1966), Christina Mary Lord (later Studley) (1875-1920), Alice Mary Thayer (later Whaley) (1874-1964), Anna Cushing Clapp (later Olin) (b. 1877), Marie Elizabeth Pendexter (later Warren) (d. 1911), and Helen Stearns Carter (later Fassett) (b. 1875).
Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903) and his "early pupil" Horace C. Snow (1831-1896), Tustin, Calif., Mar. 1893
Photographer unknown.Allen School Alumni Association reunion at the Woodland Park Hotel, Auburndale, Mass., 21 June 1893
Photographer unknown.Class of 1894, 19 June 1894
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Cabinet card.Baseball team, including Edwin Bjorne Nielsen (1876-1958), [ca. 1894]
Taken by Seaver Photo (West Newton, Mass.).Class of [1895], [1895]
Taken by Seaver (West Newton, Mass.).Football team, including Edwin Bjorne Nielsen (1876-1958), [ca. 1895]
Photographer unknown.Misses Allen School teachers and students, [ca. 1904-1913]
Photographer unknown.Misses Allen School teachers and students, [ca. 1904]-1931
Photographer unknown.Misses Allen School teachers and students, [ca. 1904]-1931
Photographer unknown.Included is a key identifying subjects.
Misses Allen School teachers and students, [ca. 1904]-1931
Photographer unknown.Misses Allen School teachers and students, [ca. 1904]-1931
Photographer unknown.Misses Allen School teachers and students, [ca. 1904]-1931
Taken by Metcalf (West Newton, Mass.).Misses Allen School teachers and students, [ca. 1904]-1931
Photographer unknown.Misses Allen School teachers and students, [ca. 1904]-1931
Photographer unknown.Misses Allen School teachers and students, [ca. 1904]-1931
Photographer unknown.Misses Allen School teachers and students, [ca. 1904]-1931
Photographer unknown.Misses Allen School teachers and students, [ca. 1904]-1931
Photographer unknown.Misses Allen School students, 1906
Photographer unknown.Inscription on verso: "Katherine Fowler / Bertha Bennett / Alice Knight / Helen Ruhe / Clara Williamson / Ida Jenks / Carmen Aury / Edith Barlow / Constance Barrett / Allen School 1906."
"Rope pull across pond," Class of 1910 vs. Class of 1909, [ca. 1909-1910]
Photographer unknown."Rope pull across pond," Class of 1910 vs. Class of 1909, [ca. 1909-1910]
Photographer unknown.Postcard.Gustaf Arnold Nielsen (1888-1960) group portraits, [ca. 1911-1912]digital content
Photographer(s) unknown.3 photographs.Three group photographs featuring Gustaf Arnold Nielsen (1888-1960), possibly dating from his years at Harvard Graduate School of Applied Science and Massachusetts Agricultural College.
Photograph 1
Photograph 2
Photograph 3
Unidentified Black students, undated
Taken by Black, Boston (Mass.).Cabinet card.Unidentified group, undated
Photographer unknown.Unidentified group, undated
Photographer unknown.Unidentified group, Jun. 1896
Photographer unknown.Unidentified group, Aug. 1896
Taken by Franklin Metcalf, West Newton, (Mass.).Includes first names and ages of subjects on verso.
Unidentified women, undated
Photographer unknown.Unidentified women, undated
Photographer unknown.C. Views, 1886-1895digital content
Allen School building, Washington and Highland Sts., West Newton, Mass., 13 Dec. 1886
Photographer unknown.Allen School building, Washington and Highland Sts., West Newton, Mass., May 1895
Taken by Chandler Seaver (West Newton, Mass.).Allen School building after snowfall, Washington and Highland Sts., West Newton, Mass., undated
Photographer unknown.Interior of the Misses Allen School, undated
Photographer unknown.Christmas card.D. Carlos Roman Yznaga photographs, 1884-ca. 1910digital content
Arranged chronologically.
This subseries contains photographs of Allen School student Carlos Roman Yznaga, his children, and his property in Cuba. Yznaga (or Iznaga) was born in Trinidad, Cuba, in 1870. He attended the Allen School from 1884 and, beginning in 1888, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. He returned to Cuba three years later, worked as a sugar planter, and served as the U.S. consul general in Trinidad, mayor of Trinidad (during the Spanish-American War), and lieutenant governor of the Province of Trinidad. Yznaga married Matilde Meyer y Cantero in 1894 and had several children. He died on 21 Sep. 1910 in New York City. Most of the photographs of the Yznaga children and estate contain descriptions and messages written by Carlos Yznaga to members of the Allen family. Subjects include the family's Black servants.
Yznaga was the 14th lord of his family's estate in the Valle de los Ingenios. Photographs of the estate include a view of what is now Plaza Mayor in Trinidad, Cuba.
Yznaga, Carlos Roman (1870-1910), 1 Aug. 1884
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Yznaga, Carlos Roman (1870-1910), 1 Aug. 1884
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Yznaga, Carlos Roman (1870-1910) and unidentified boy in folk costumes, [ca. 1885-1886]
Photographer unknown.Tintype.Yznaga, Carlos Roman (1870-1910), Apr. 1886
Photographer unknown.Cabinet card.Yznaga, Carlos Roman (1870-1910), Apr. 1886
Taken by McCormick (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Yznaga, Carlos Roman (1870-1910), Oct. 1888
Taken by Lloyd (Troy, N.Y.).Cabinet card.Yznaga boy, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Matilde Yznaga, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Juan Andres Yznaga and Carlos Joaquin Yznaga, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Juan Andres Yznaga, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Matilde Yznaga with nurse, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Be advised that the creator-supplied caption on this photograph contains racist language.
Carlos Joaquin Yznaga, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Juan Andres Yznaga, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Juan Andres Yznaga in cowboy costume, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Juan Andres Yznaga in cowboy costume on rocking horse, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Yznaga boys with nurses, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Yznaga child with nurse, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Carlos Joaquin Yznaga, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Juan Andres Yznaga and Felix Yznaga, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Matilde Yznaga, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Matilde Yznaga and Concepción Yznaga, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Yznaga children, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Yznaga children, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Yznaga children, [ca. 1895-1910]
Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.Yznaga estate, Trinidad, Cuba, [ca. 1895-1910]
[Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.]Yznaga estate, Trinidad, Cuba, [ca. 1895-1910]
[Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.]Yznaga estate, Trinidad, Cuba, [ca. 1895-1910]
[Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.]Yznaga estate, Trinidad, Cuba, [ca. 1895-1910]
[Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.]Yznaga estate, Trinidad, Cuba, [ca. 1895-1910]
[Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.]Yznaga estate, Trinidad, Cuba, [ca. 1895-1910]
[Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.]Yznaga estate, Trinidad, Cuba, [ca. 1895-1910]
[Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.]Yznaga estate, Trinidad, Cuba, [ca. 1895-1910]
[Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.]Yznaga estate, Trinidad, Cuba, [ca. 1895-1910]
[Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.]Yznaga estate, Trinidad, Cuba, [ca. 1895-1910]
[Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.]Yznaga estate, Trinidad, Cuba, [ca. 1895-1910]
[Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.]Yznaga estate, Trinidad, Cuba, [ca. 1895-1910]
[Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.]Yznaga estate, Trinidad, Cuba, [ca. 1895-1910]
[Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.]Yznaga estate, Trinidad, Cuba, [ca. 1895-1910]
[Taken by Carlos Roman Yznaga.]III. Related photographs, 1852-1908digital content
Arranged alphabetically.
This series contains cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and other photographs of Allen family associates, including prominent abolitionists, reformers, educators, and members of the Hungarian royal family who were friends of Fanny Bassett Allen. Also included are mass-produced photographs of formerly enslaved people.
Achorn, Edgar Oakes (1859-1931), May 1881
Taken by A. O. Reed (Brunswick, Me.).Cabinet card.Bambach, B., undated
Photographer unknown.Carte de visite.Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887) statue, [ca. 1891-1900]
Taken by W. S. Pendleton (Brooklyn, N.Y.).Cabinet card."Emancipated Slaves," 1863
Taken by M. H. Kimball (New York, N.Y.).Group portrait of eight formerly enslaved people: Wilson Chinn, Mary Johnson, Robert Whitehead, Charles Taylor, Augusta Broujey, Isaac White, Rebecca Huger, and Rosina Downs. Caption on recto: "Emancipated Slaves / Brought from Louisiana by Col. Geo. H. Hanks. The Children are from the Schools established by order of Maj. Gen. Banks." Caption on verso: "The nett proceeds from the sale of these Photographs will be devoted exclusively to the education of colored people in the Department of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj.-Gen. Banks."
Everett, Edward (1794-1865), [ca. 1860-1865]
Photographer unknown.Carte de visite.Forbes, William (1810-1899) and Sarah Harding Forbes (1812-1896), 25 Dec. 1893
Photographer unknown.Inscription on verso in Nathaniel T. Allen's hand: "My first teacher / Mrs. Sarah Harding Forbes / & her husband Wm. Forbes Esq / farmer Medfield / Dec. 25. 93."
Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879), [ca. 1870]
Photographer unknown.Carte de visite.Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879), 1874
Photographer unknown (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Greenleaf, Benjamin (1786-1864), 1863
Taken by S. Masury (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Hayes, Lucy Webb (1831-1889) and Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893), [ca. 1875]
Taken by Mora (New York, N.Y.).Carte de visite.Kossuth, Lajos (1802-1894), [1852]
Engraver unknown. Published by Geo. W. Woodard (Boston, Mass.).Engraving.Inscribed on verso: "Carrie - from Lizzie [Shurber] - in remembrance of the few days we passed pleasantly together - April 29. 1852."
Lawrence, Fannie Virginia Casseopia (b. 1858), [1863]
Taken by Kellogg Brothers (Hartford, Conn.).Carte de visite.Caption on recto: "Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a Redeemed slave child, 5 years of age. Redeemed in Virginia, by Catharine [sic] S. Lawrence; Baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863."
Lawrence, Fannie Virginia Casseopia (b. 1858) and Catherine S. Lawrence (1820-1904), [1863]
Taken by Renowden (Brooklyn, N.Y.).Carte de visite.Caption on recto: "Redeemed in Virginia by Catharine [sic] S. Lawrence. Baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863. Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a Redeemed slave child, 5 years of age. "
McCleave, Eliza Ann Chase (1811-1895), 1889
Photographer unknown.Cabinet card.Odescalchi, Helen, "11," [1871]
Taken by Lacombe & Lacroix (Geneva, Switzerland).Carte de visite.Odescalchi, Irma (1863-1924), "8," [1871]
Taken by Lacombe & Lacroix (Geneva, Switzerland).Carte de visite.Odescalchi, Pauline (1856-1923), "14 1/2," [1871]
Taken by Lacombe & Lacroix (Geneva, Switzerland).Carte de visite.Odescalchi, Pauline (1856-1923), [ca. 1872-1873]
Taken by Prof. Koller & Borsos J. (Budapest, Hungary).Carte de visite.Odescalchi, Pauline (1856-1923) and [Adam Beniczky de Benicz (1855-1923)], [ca. 1880-1885]
Taken by Strelisky (Budapest, Hungary).Cabinet card.Odescalchi, Pauline (1856-1923), Sep. 1908
Taken by Strelisky (Budapest, Hungary).Cabinet card.Odescalchi, Victoire, "13," [1871]
Taken by Lacombe & Lacroix (Geneva, Switzerland).Carte de visite.Painting of a boy and girl carrying sticks, Dec. 1863
Photographer unknown.Carte de visite.Inscription on verso: "Fannie Allen / from Gorham, / Christmas 1863."
Parker, Theodore (1810-1860), [ca. 1860]
Photographer unknown. Published by Henry F. Granger & Co. (Boston, Mass.).Reproduction.Parker, Theodore (1810-1860), [1860]
Taken by Ely (Racine, Wis.).Carte de visite.Inscription on verso: "Theod. Parker / The last Phot. taken in life / From Miss ___ Parker / 1874."
Pomroy, Rebecca Rossignol Holliday (1817-1884), Mar. 1884
Taken by Hardy (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card."State Government of Mass.," 1866
Photographer unknown.Carte de visite.This carte de visite contains small images of 1866 Massachusetts government officials, including Gov. Alexander Hamilton Bullock (1816-1882), Lt. Gov. William Claflin (1818-1905), Secretary of State Oliver Warner (1818-1885), Treasurer Jacob Hersey Loud (1802-1880), Auditor Henry Shaw Briggs (1824-1887), and Attorney General Chester Isham Reed (1823-1873), as well as the State House in Boston.
Sumner, Charles (1811-1874), [ca. 1870]
Taken by Silsbee, Case & Co. (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Sumner, Charles (1811-1874), [ca. 1874]
Taken by Allen & Rowell (Boston, Mass.).Cabinet card.Tausig, Carl (1841-1871), [ca. 1865-1871]
Taken by B. J. Hirsch (Berlin, Germany).Carte de visite.Thayer, Gideon French (1793-1864), Sep. 1862
Taken by F. L. Lay (Boston, Mass.).Carte de visite.Preferred Citation
Nathaniel T. Allen photographs, Massachusetts Historical Society.
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