Lois Lilley Howe photographic collection, 1884-1912.

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Lois Lilley Howe photographic collection, 1884-1912.

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Series I-III: the bulk of the collection consists of 282 glass photographic negatives taken, with only few exceptions by Lois Lilley Howe (1892-1912), either 4"x5" (159) or 5"x7" (110), with a few large format 8"x10" plates (12). About 135 of the negatives have associated prints (apparently made when the collection was first processed by the Cambridge Historical Society). Subjects of the negatives include several studies of a laurel-wreathed young man, Lydiard Horton, several young women, and a child; studies of various flowers, taken indoors and out; fire and fireplaces; clients and friends of Howe such as members of the Alfred C. Potter family; staged portraits; scenes of holidays (ca. 1895-1906) spent in Tamworth, N.H., near Mount Chocorua; members of the Twitchell family; Dr. Samuel McChord Crothers, minister in Cambridge; landscapes along the Charles River; and various historical houses in Cambridge. Series IV-V: Includes ca. 100 photographs either created or collected by Howe, and some taken in collaboration with James A. Wells, in a wide variety of sizes and print types, of houses, interiors, landscapes, and people, landscapes again depicting Charles River views; members of the Cambridge Photographic Club ; and members of the Vaughan and Abbot families in theatrical costume. Series V consists of drawings and plans, published and unpublished, including ms. drawings of the Hastings-Holmes house, birthplace of Oliver Wendell Holmes, and of an old house which stood on a site at Harvard Law School. Also in this series is a signed copy of Details from Old New England Houses, measured and drawn by Lois L. Howe and Constance Fuller (1913). Series VI consists of a folder of genealogical materials, including a partially completed pedigree chart; assorted genealogical notes on the Pomeroy and Spelman families; and two copies of a biographical sketch of Lois Lilley Howe.

2.5 linear ft.

Cambridge Historical Society

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

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Potter family

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Spellman family.

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Spelman family.

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Howe, Lois Lilley, 1864-1964

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Architect, of Cambridge, Mass.; attended MIT School of Architecture, the only woman in a class of 65 males, completing the program in 1890. In 1893 opened what would soon become the only all-female architectural firm in Boston and in 1894 designed her first house, the Alfred C. Potter residence in Cambridge. Her firm expanded becoming successively Lois Lilley Howe & Manning in 1913 and Howe, Manning & Almy in 1926 as draftsmen Eleanor Manning and Mary Almy were taken on as partners. The ...

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Crothers, Samuel McChord, 1857-1927

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Unitarian minister. A.B. Princeton, 1874. Graduated from Union Theological Seminary, 1877. Ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1877 and served churches in Nevada and California (1877-1881). He became a Unitarian and served churches in Brattleboro, Vt. (1882-1886) and St. Paul, Minn. (1886-1894). In 1894 he became minister at the First Parish in Cambridge, Mass., serving until his death in 1927. He was the author of several popular volumes of essays. From the description of Sermons, 1...

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Fuller, Constance, 1886-

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Wells, James A.

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