Henry Adams glass plate negatives, ca. 1920.

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Henry Adams glass plate negatives, ca. 1920.

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Thirty-five glass plate negatives taken by Henry Adams (1875-1951). Some of the negatives depict paintings, bookplates, and seals belonging to the Adams family, as well as the signatures of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, photographed from the fly-leaves of books belonging to them. The remainder of the negatives are of photographs taken by Henry Adams in 1920 during his relief work for the Red Cross in Theodosia and Crimea in the Ukraine after World War I; these negatives were taken of the photographs as they appear in a photograph album assembled by Adams. Includes one manuscript in the hand of Henry Adams that identifies 19 of the negatives.

35 glass plate negatives in 2 narrow boxes.

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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...

Adams, Henry, 1875-1951

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