Francis Parkman photographs, ca. 1840-1910.

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Francis Parkman photographs, ca. 1840-1910.

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Photographs collected by historian Francis Parkman and his descendants, dating from ca. 1840-1910. Photograph albums contain portraits of various members of the Parkman, Cordner, and Coolidge families; cartes de visite collected by John Eliot Parkman, brother of Francis Parkman, that depict Civil War soldiers; and other cartes de visite collected by Francis Parkman that depict Native Americans, as well as American and European public figures. Loose photographs consist mainly of portrait photos of Francis Parkman, his daughters Grace Parkman Coffin and Katherine Scollay Parkman Coolidge, and various other family members, as well as some of Parkman's friends and colleagues. There are also a number of loose views of various places, including photos of Maine waterways and wilderness, taken by James C. Stoddard, ca. 1867-1876; views of wilderness and various cities in Canada; and photos of Francis Parkman's homes in Boston and Jamaica Plain, Mass. Other loose photographs consist of photographs of Native Americans and of Parkman's trip to the Batiscan River in Quebec with Charles Haight Farnham in 1886, as well as photographic reproductions of European artwork, among other subjects. Photographers include James Wallace Black and John Adams Whipple of Boston, Mass.; Benjamin Franklin Upton of St. Anthony, Minn.; Alexander Henderson and William Notman of Montreal; and Livernois & Bienvenu of Quebec, among many others. Includes tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, stereographs, and other paper-based photographs.

665 photographs in 4 boxes, 3 oversize boxes, and 8 v.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7753629

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Coolidge, Katherine Scollay Parkman, 1858-1900

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Allen & Rowell (Boston, Mass.),

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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 ...

Livernois & Bienvenu,

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Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893

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Noted American historian from Massachusetts who traveled the Oregon Trail and published extensively on early America. From the description of Letter, November 27, 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 233593490 Francis Parkman, historian, was born in Boston and educated at Harvard, his father's alma mater. Samuel Parkman was a Unitarian pastor who founded The Parkman Professorship of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Care in The Cambridge Theological ...

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...

Parkman family

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Upton, Benjamin Franklin, b. 1818,

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Coolidge family

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Coffin, Grace Parkman, 1851-1928

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Cordner family

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Henderson, Alexander, 1831-1913,

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