Amory family carte de visite album, 1860-1864.

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Amory family carte de visite album, 1860-1864.

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One album containing 174 cartes de visite portraits of various members of the Amory, Appleton, Copley, Greene, and Lawrence families, taken between 1860-1864. Those depicted in the album include Arthur Amory, Augustine Heard Amory, Frederic Amory, Harcourt Amory, James Appleton Amory, and James Sullivan Amory, among many others. Photographers include George Kendall Warren of Cambridgeport, Mass. and James Wallace Black, Antoine Sonrel, John Adams Whipple, and Black & Batchelder, all of Boston, Mass. The album is embossed in gold with the initials "M. G.A.," and an inscription in an unknown hand in the front of the album reads, "Mary Amory. From her Affectionate Mother Oct 13th 1862." Most of the photographs are identified, and all are black and white.

174 photographs in album : cartes de visite, b&w ; 10 x 6 cm, in album 32 x 24 cm.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7647658

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Appleton family

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Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896

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Illustrator; Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of F.O.C. Darley [graphic] / J.W. Black. [ca. 1870] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220203675 ...

Amory, James Appleton, 1839-1861

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Black & Batchelder (Boston, Mass.),

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Warren, G. K. (George Kendall), -1884

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George K. Warren (1834-1884) was an American photographer active in Massachusetts in the second half of the 19th century. He was based in Lowell, Massachusetts from 1850 to 1870 and moved to Boston in 1870, where he worked until his death in 1884. In 1858 he began taking photographs of graduating college classes and became known as a prominent class photographer, particularly at Ivy League schools. In the 1860s he published a series of cartes-de-visite of Cambridge, Watertown, Concord, and Lexin...

Emery family

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Lawrence family

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Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891

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Served with the New England Women's Auxiliary Association of the United States Sanitary Commission, 1861-1866; Freedmen's Aid Society, 1866-1873; founded the New England Women's Club, 1868; Boston School Committee representative, 1875-1878; member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1879-1888; president of the Massachusetts School Sufrrage Association, 1880-1888; member and president of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women, 1880-1886; and member of the Association...

Sonrel, Antoine

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Amory, James Sullivan, 1809-1884.

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Amory, Harcourt, 1855-1925

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Dodgson was an English author and mathematician, best known as Lewis Carroll. Sir John Tenniel was an English illustrator and satirical artist especially known for his work in Punch and his illustrations for the Lewis Carroll Alice books. Harcourt Amory was a collector of Lewis Carroll books and manuscripts. From the description of Harcourt Amory collection of Lewis Carroll, 1843-1915. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612375447 Lewis Carroll was a pseud...

Amory, Frederic

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Keppel family

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Green family

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Amory, Augustine Heard, 1852-1904

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Amory, Arthur.

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