Bakewell-McKnight family photograph collection [picture] 1825-1945 (bulk 1861-1919).

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Bakewell-McKnight family photograph collection [picture] 1825-1945 (bulk 1861-1919).

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The Bakewell-McKnight family photograph collection includes photograph albums, cased photographs, mounted and unmounted prints, and photographic postcards. Most of the images are of members of the Bakewell family of Pittsburgh and the Boardman family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Individuals featured prominently are Benjamin Bakewell and Ellen Frances Boardman Bakewell, their three daughters, Mary Ella Bakewell, Euphemia Bakewell, and Martha Harding Bakewell McKnight and clergyman Henry Augustus Boardman. Notable items in the collection include two photographs of Benjamin Bakewell with other members of K Company of the U.S. Army's 12th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the Civil War and photographs of Euphemia Bakewell's relief work with the YMCA in France at the end of World War I. There are also commercial photographs of Jefferson Davis and George B. McClellan and a photograph of Martha Harding Bakewell McKnight with Bess and Harry S. Truman.

2.0 linear ft.

Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Heinz History Center Detre Library and Archives

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Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Heinz History Center Detre Library and Archives

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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885

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United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861). K Company.

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Boardman, Henry Augustus, 1808-1960.

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Bakewell, Euphemia, 1870-1921.

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Bakewell, Mary Ella, 1868-1960.

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Bakewell, Benjamin, 1833-1897.

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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

Bakewell family.

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Boardman family.

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Bakewell-McKnight family.

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Benjamin Bakewell (1767-1844), Pittsburgh's first successful flint glass manufacturer, founded Bakewell, Pears & Co. in 1807. During the Civil War, his grandson, Benjamin Bakewell (1833-1897), served in the 12th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment and was adjutant of the 15th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Militia of 1862. Benjamin Bakewell worked in the family's glassmaking firm and married Ellen Frances Boardman (1845-1901) in 1866; she was the daughter of Philadelphia clergyman Henry Augustus Bo...

McKnight family.

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McKnight, Martha Harding Bakewell, 873-1966.

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