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Daguerreotypes (photographs)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Atkinson and Lancaster family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-31
Abstract
The Atkinson and Lancaster family collection contains documents, photographs, ephemera, and textiles relating to five generations of the Atkinson family of Newburyport and Newton, Massachusetts, and Calcutta, India, the allied Lancaster family of Newburyport, and lesser amounts by the Cook family of Salem, Mass. The letters and business papers of John Atkinson, of Newburyport, Mass. and Calcutta, India, his daughter Doctor Lizzie D. R. Atkinson, and her siblings make up the bulk of the...
Dates:
1777-1964
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Higgins family papers, 1741-1925.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-6
Scope and Contents
Consists of the letters and diaries of Milton Prince Higgins (1842-1912), a mechanical engineer, industrialist, and pioneer in technical education, and his wife, Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins (1847-1925), dating from 1859-1925. These documents refect her education at Manchester, NH; their courtship, engagement, and marriage, family life, and social activities; and his duties as superintendent of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and President of several manufacturing firms in the...
Dates:
1741-1925
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Sydney Stevens Williston collection, 1760-1944.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-42
Abstract
Personal and business papers, genealogical correspondence, research notes, and graphics of the Stoddard-Williston families, Northampton, Massachusetts, Breese-Stevens families, Oneida County, New York, Hawkins-Tucker, and Huntington families, Chicago, Illinois.
Dates:
1273-1944; Majority of material found within 1701-1944
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
William Foster papers, 1734-1879.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-28
Scope and Contents
Collection contains letters sent between William Foster Jr. and William's father, siblings and their spouses, nieces and nephews, and children. Correspondents include brother-in-law Harrison Gray Otis, Andrew Ritchie, daughter and son-in-law James E. and Virginia (Foster) Coppinger, daughter Jeanne Francoise "Fanny" (Foster) Tudor, brother Leonard Foster, sisters Grace (Foster) Apthorp and Mary (Foster) Apthorp, and Nathan Spear Jr. William also received personal letters from friends in...
Dates:
1734-1879
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
William Pitt Greenwood Hayward papers, 1816-1971.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-41
Scope and Contents
Chiefly correspondence by the family of William Pitt Greenwood Hayward (1848-1922) of Roxbury, MA and Denver, CO and his daughter Gertrude Hayward Mead (1883-1969) of Denver, CO and Greenwich, CT. The papers of William P.G. Hayward includes a diary kept the summer of 1872, when he worked as a cowboy in Kansas. The papers of Henry Clay Moffett (1832-1863), brother of William P.G. Hayward's wife Susan Moffett, includes correspondence and a diary with an account of his trip from San Francisco...
Dates:
1816-1971
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections
Yates and Harris family collection, 1377-2001.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-1000
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents, ephemera, photographs, and objects relating to seven generations of the Yates family and two generations of the allied Harris family. The Yates family material centers on the family of Dr. William Yates (1767-1857) of Uttoxeter, England, and Butternuts (now Morris), New York, and his wife Hannah (Palmer) Yates (1781-1869). The collection contains material on Yates family members extending in both directions from this core family. There are more than...
Dates:
1377-2001 (bulk: 1790-1933)
Found in:
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections