Emerson family photographs, ca. 1845-1983 ; bulk: 1850-1897.

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Emerson family photographs, ca. 1845-1983 ; bulk: 1850-1897.

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This collection contains 153 photographs in one box and one cased volume, most dating from 1850-1867. The bulk of the collection consists of loose formal portrait photographs and informal snapshots of various members of the Emerson, Haven, Forbes, Mott, and Tompkins families. Subjects include William Emerson (1801-1868); John Haven Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson, his wife Lidian Jackson Emerson, and their children; Annie Shepherd Keyes Emerson and her children; and Edith Emerson Forbes and her children, among many others. One album additionally contains tintype and carte de visite portraits of various members of the Emerson family. There are also a small number of loose photographs of Emerson and Haven family homes in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Photographers represented in this collection include Edward Waldo Emerson, Jeremiah Gurney (New York, N.Y.), Rockwood (New York, N.Y.), and James Wallace Black, John Adams Whipple, and Southworth & Hawes (all of Boston, Mass.), among many others.

153 photographs in 1 box and 1 v. (cased)

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Emerson, Lidian Jackson, 1802-1892

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Lidian Jackson Emerson (born Lydia Jackson; September 20, 1802 – November 13, 1892) was the second wife of American essayist, lecturer, poet and leader of the nineteenth century Transcendentalism movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and mother of his four children. An intellectual, she was involved in many social issues of her day, advocating for the abolition of slavery, the rights of women and of Native Americans and the welfare of animals, and campaigned for her famous husband to take a public stan...

Emerson (Family : Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist and poet. The Emerson family was prominent in the literary and social life of New England during the 19th century. From the description of Emerson family papers, 1699-1939. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612701545 Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American poet and essayist. From the guide to the Emerson family additional correspondence, 1811-1859., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Librar...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts– April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts), American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.Epithet: American essayist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x000365 ...

Rockwood,

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Emerson, John Haven, 1840-1913

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Southworth & Hawes

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Attributed to the photographic firm of Southworth & Hawes. This photographic print was one of a series of prints that formed a panoramic view of the city of Boston taken from the State House in 1858. The individual prints have been reproduced several times; this particular print probably dates from the late nineteenth century. From the description of View from the State House, looking North East [graphic]. [1858] (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 70822186 ...

Emerson, Edward Waldo, 1844-1930

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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 ...

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...

Emerson, William, 1801-1868

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Haven family

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Mott family

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Forbes family

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Forbes, Edith Emerson, 1841-1929

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Gurney, Jeremiah, 1812-1895

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Emerson, Annie Shepherd Keyes, b. 1847

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Tompkins family

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