Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis photographs, ca. 1830-ca. 1945.

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Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis photographs, ca. 1830-ca. 1945.

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Seven boxes contain portraits of various members of the Saltonstall, Brooks, and Lewis families; images of Boston, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Brooks family estate in Medford, Mass. and other places; and photographs of artwork. Thirty-six albums contain portraits and informal photographs of Saltonstall, Brooks, and Lewis family members and friends; travels to Egypt, the Sahara, the Middle East, South America, and the Western U.S.; gardens; Watertown, Mass., Brookline, Mass., and Maine; Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall's photographs from World War I; photos of Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis's wedding to George Lewis; and Harvard University students. Family members represented include, among others, Peter Chardon Brooks, Sarah Lawrence Brooks, William Lawrence, Eleanor Saltonstall, Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, Leverett Saltonstall, and Richard M. Saltonstall. Includes daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cartes de visite, cabinet card photographs, lantern slides, stereographs, and other paper-based photographs. Photographers include Charlotte Allen, James Wallace Black, Henry Brooks, Lawrence Brooks, Sarah Lawrence Brooks, Margaret Coe Cunningham, Augustus Marshall, James Notman, John Adams Whipple, Allen & Rowell, Keystone View Company, and Notman & Campbell, among many others.

3593 photographs in 5 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and 36 v.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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