Frances L. James and family papers. 1849-1984 (bulk 1849-1924).

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Frances L. James and family papers. 1849-1984 (bulk 1849-1924).

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Letters (mainly handwritten transcripts), photographs, watercolors, and genealogical data concerning Minnesota artist Frances L. James, her father, Maine artist Francis Greenleaf Haynes, her daughter Helen James Sommers, and three generations of other members of the Haynes, James, and Sommers families.

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G. Sommers & Co. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

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Haynes family.

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James family.

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Summers family.

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James, Frances L.

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Frances L. (Haynes) James was born in East Livermore, Maine on June 25, 1853. In the late 1850s she moved to St. Paul where her mother, Harriet, had taken a job after the death of Frances' father, Francis Greenleaf Haynes. She worked as an artist in the St. Paul area, painting miniatures. She compiled and edited the correspondence found in the volumes included in this collection. In 1874 she married Henry Clay James and they had seven children: Margaret, Cornelia, Helen, Ethel, Henr...

Sommers family.

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Haynes, Francis Greenleaf.

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Central High School (Saint Paul, Minn.)

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