Dall-Healey family photographs, ca. 1850-1911 ; bulk: 1860-1890.

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Dall-Healey family photographs, ca. 1850-1911 ; bulk: 1860-1890.

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Photographs collected by Dall and Healey family members from 1850-1911. Two albums contain carte de visite portraits of various members of the Healey, Dall, and Foster families, as well as family friends and prominent American figures. Subjects include William Healey Dall, Caroline Foster Healey, Caroline Wells Healey Dall, and Charles Henry Appleton Dall, among many others. One album also contains commercially-produced tintypes and cartes de visite collected by William Healey Dall that depict places and colleagues from his journey with the Western Union Telegraph Expedition from California to Alaska and the Yukon, as well as Civil War soldiers and sailors. Loose photographs in the collection also depict various members of the Healey and Foster families. Photographers repesented in the collection include Frederick Gutekunst (Philadelphia, Penn.), Bradley & Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.), Henry Ulke (Washington, D.C.), and James Wallace Black, Antoine Sonrel, and John Adams Whipple (all of Boston, Mass.). The collection includes daguerreotypes, carte de visite, tintypes, daguerreotypes, and other paper-based prints.

297 photographs in 3 v. (in cases) and 1 narrow box.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7658753

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Dall, C. H. A. (Charles Henry Appleton), 1816-1886

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Charles Henry Appleton Dall (1816-1886) graduated from Harvard College in 1837 and Harvard Divinity School in 1840 and was then ordained to the Unitarian ministry. He was sent to St. Louis where he organized the first free school for the poor located west of the Mississippi River. Rev. Dall served Unitarian parishes in Maryland, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Ontario, Canada, until 1855 when he became the first foreign missionary of the Unitarian Church in America. Rev. Dall's missionary work...

Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927

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William Healey Dall was born on 21 August 1845 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA He entered the service of the Land Office of the Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago, spending his evenings studying at the Chicago Academy of Sciences. In 1865, he was appointed naturalist on the United States Western Union Telegraph Expedition (Alaskan Division), 1865-1867 (leader Robert Kennicott), sent by the Western Union Telegraph Company to survey a route for, and to construct, a telegraph line thr...

Dall, Caroline Healey, 1822-1912

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Caroline Wells Healey Dall (June 22, 1822 – December 17, 1912) was an American feminist writer, transcendentalist, and reformer. She was affiliated with the National Women's Rights Convention, the New England Women's Club, and the American Social Science Association. Her associates included Elizabeth Peabody and Margaret Fuller, as well as members of the Transcendentalist movement in Boston. Caroline Healey was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Mark Healey, a merchant and ...

Healey, Caroline Foster, 1800-1860

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Ulke, Henry,

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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 ...

Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917

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Bradley & Rulofson

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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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The bark Golden Gate and clipper ship Nightingale were both involved in the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to British Columbia, Alaska and Russia to survey areas where the Western Union Telegraph Company planned to construct a telegraph line linking America and Europe. The line was never completed. Charles S. Bulkley was Engineer-in-Chief and Charles M. Scammon was Chief of Marine. The bark Golden Gate was the flagship of the expedition from June 1865 to March 1866, after which the clipper s...