Hilda Chase Foster photographs, 1879-1981; bulk: 1890-1940.

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Hilda Chase Foster photographs, 1879-1981; bulk: 1890-1940.

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Photographs of Hilda Chase Foster (HCF) and the Foster family, taken between 1879-1981. The bulk of this collection consists of photographs taken by Hilda Chase Foster (HCF) during her travels in Europe, Asia, India, Ireland, and the western United States between 1908 and 1950. There are also a number of photos of HCF's Red Cross service jobs in Europe during World War I and of her work as an ambulance driver in Cambridge, England during World War II. The collection also includes formal portraits of HCF as a child and also as an adult; formal portraits of various members of the Foster family, including Charles Henry Wheelwright Foster and Mabel Chase Hill Foster; informal snapshots of HCF and various friends and family; photographs of HCF's various homes in Brookline, Charles River, and Marblehead, Mass. and Norwich, Vt.; and photos of sailing and sailboats. This collection includes cabinet cards, tintypes, color slides, Kodachrome reels (dye coupler phototransparencies), microfilm, film photonegatives, motion picture film reels, and other paper-based photographs, both black and white and in color. Most of the film photonegatives correspond to photographs within the collection. Most of the photographs were taken by Hilda Chase Foster.

8 v. (in cases), 8 boxes, and 1 oversize box of photographs ; 92 postcards in 1 box; and 9 film reels in 1 box.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7644580

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Foster, Charles Henry Wheelwright, 1859-1955.

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Foster, Hilda Chase, 1891-1974

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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...

Foster family

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Foster, Mabel Chase Hill, 1864-1925.

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