Oaksmith family photograph album, 1865.

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Oaksmith family photograph album, 1865.

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Collection comprises a photograph album presented by Sidney to his brother, Alvin, in 1865. There are twelve, 3x2 inch, albumen prints, including 11 carte-de-visite portraits of family members by various photographers, as well as one view taken by Sidney of Havana, Cuba, each inserted in mounts within a commercial photograph album (New York, D. Appleton, 1862). There is slight fading of the photographs and some foxing of the paper mounts. Portraits include brothers Appleton, Sidney, and Edward; their parents, Seba and Elizabeth; Sidney's wife, Fannie, and their two children, Eva and Gertrude; Appleton's daughter, Bessie; and two others.

1 item (.1 lin. ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6958276

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Oaksmith, Alvin, 1832-1902.

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Oaksmith, Appleton, 1827-1887

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Adventurer, author, shipowner, and industrial promoter, of Hollywood, N.C. From the description of Papers, 1840-1885. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20019397 Appleton Oaksmith, North Carolina state legislator from Carteret County, N.C., was the son of Seba Smith (1792-1868), Maine and New York political humorist, and Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith (1806-1893), author, lecturer, and reformer, who used the name Ernest Helfenstein. From the description...

Oaksmith family.

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Oaksmith, Edward, 1834-1865.

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Oaksmith, Sidney, 1830-1869.

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Businessman of Havana, Cuba. His parents were writer, lecturer, abolitionist, and feminist Elizabeth Oakes Prince, and American humorist and editor Seba Smith, who combined their last names to form the new family surname. From the description of Oaksmith family photograph album, 1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 191520760 ...

Smith, Seba, 1792-1868

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Founder and editor of Portland Courier and satirist. From the description of Collection: 1838-1851. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 122318723 Author and editor of Portland, Maine, and New York City. His wife, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith, was an author, lyceum lecturer and early women's rights activist. From the guide to the Seba Smith papers, 1813-1867, n.d, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Satirist; founde...

Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893

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Elizabeth Oakes Smith was a notably intelligent, talented, and accomplished 19th century American author. She first published poems in her husband's newspapers, began to write in earnest to alleviate financial concerns, and produced a remarkably capable and diverse body of work including poetry, essays, children's stories, novels, and non-fiction. She became one of the first women lecturers, speaking on women's rights and abolition. She was well-connected and well-respected by her peers, and mai...