Portrait photograph album, [ca. 1860-1914]

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Portrait photograph album, [ca. 1860-1914]

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One album contains mid to late 19th century portrait photographs, largely studio portraits, in the form of cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and tintypes. Portraits are of unidentified men, women, and children, and a few celebrities including Abraham Lincoln, Tom Thumb and his wife, and actress Emma Waller. These were taken by photographers in Camden, Elizabeth, and Jersey City, N.J.; Long Island City, New York City, and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Washington D.C.; Pennsylvania; and possibly elsewhere. Of note are two portraits of black people, one of a young woman taken by a photograher in Elizabeth, N.J., and another of Samuel Math Francis, American-Sudan Mission, Freetown, Africa. Also of note are an advertisement for John Thompson & Co., a furniture manufacturer on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn; a business card of H.L. Bemis, General Electrician, of Glen Cove, Long Island; an advertisement for actress Emma Waller, ca. 1870s; a pamphlet from The Girls Friendly Society of America, located in New York City, 1893, announcing the death of General Secretary Letitia Townsend of Matinecock, Long Island from typhus at Riverside Hospital, North Brother Island, Queens, N.Y.

.7 cubic ft.

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Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883

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Charles Stratton (1838-1883), stage name General Tom Thumb, was an American showman noted for his small stature. He was the first major attraction promoted by the circus impresario P.T. Barnum. He was not quite five years old when Barnum hired him for his museum, but Barnum publicized him as General Tom Thumb, an 11-year-old dwarf from England. He quickly became a celebrated figure in the United States and abroad. In 1863 Stratton married Lavinia Warren (1841–1919)—another of Barnum’s performers...

Girls Friendly Society

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Girls Friendly Society. From the guide to the Girls Friendly Society, 1875-1970, (Canterbury Cathedral Archives) ...

Waller, Emma, 1820?-1899

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Townsend, Letitia.

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H.L. Bemis, General Electrician (Glen Cove, N.Y.)

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American-Sudan Mission (Freetown, Sierra Leone)

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John Thompson & Co. (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

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New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

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The International Genealogical Index for North America is produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Genealogical Dept., Salt Lake City. From the description of Microfiche collection, [ca. 1630]-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83729942 ...

Francis, Samuel, philomath

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