Adams family photographs, ca. 1863-1960.

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Adams family photographs, ca. 1863-1960.

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206 photographs and 2 film photonegatives, mostly pertaining to the children of Charles Francis Adams (1835-1915) and Mary Ogden Adams (1843-1935). One box contains a disbound album of photographs taken by Henry Adams (1875-1951) that dates from 1919-1921. The photos in this album depict his service with the American Red Cross at Verdun, France after the armistice of World War II, as well as his Red Cross relief work with refugees in the Kuban River Valley in Russia and in Theodosia and Crimea in the Ukraine. The album also includes photos of Adams' travels in Bombay, Brussels, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Samoa, and Singapore, among other places, on his return trip to Boston. The remainder of the photographs in this collection include loose portraits of various members of the Adams family, taken by various photographers. Subjects include Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886), Elizabeth Ogden Adams, John Adams (1875-1964), John Quincy Adams (b. 1907), Marian Morse Adams, Thomas Boylston Adams, and Mary Ogden Adams Ames; there is also one portrait of Charles Francis (1835-1915) that was taken by Henry Adams (1838-1918), circa 1900. The film photonegatives correspond to photographs within the collection. All of the photographs are paper-based.

206 photographs and 2 film photonegatives in 2 narrow boxes.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7636261

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Adams, Thomas Boylston, 1910-1997

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Adams, Henry, 1838-1918

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Henry Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, was educated at Harvard and served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, when he was Minister to England. He rejected a political career to teach history at Harvard and edit The North American review, 1870-1877, then returned to Washington. He wrote prolifically on many subjects and is best known for his Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904) and The education of Henry Adams (1907). From the description of Henry Adam...

Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915

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Soldier, businessman, civic leader and historian. Descendant of two presidents and the son of a noted diplomat, Adams served with distinction as a Union officer during the Civil War. After the war, he became a nationally recognized authority on the railroad industry, chairing the Massachusetts Railroad Commission from 1869 to 1879, and ultimately taking on the presidency of the Union Pacifc Railroad for six stormy years, 1884-1890. From 1890 to 1915, Adams was content to be a man of a...

Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886

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American diplomat, lawyer, and biographer; son of John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts 1859-61, U.S. Minister to England, 1861-68; U.S. Arbitrator at the Geneva Tribunal ("Alabama" claims), 1871-72. From the guide to the Charles Francis Adams letters, 1844-1878, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Adams, John, 1875-1964

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Adams, Elizabeth Ogden, 1873-1945.

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Adams, Marian Morse, 1878-1959

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Adams family

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Hawaii

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American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Ames, Mary Ogden Adams, 1906-1967

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Adams, Henry, 1875-1951

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