Alice Bache Gould photographs, ca. 1850-1997; bulk: 1868-1934

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Alice Bache Gould photographs, ca. 1850-1997; bulk: 1868-1934

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Photographs collected by the mathematician, historian, teacher, and author Alice Bache Gould. Most of the photographs, loose and in volumes, are portraits of Gould and her friends and family, including her parents, Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896) and Mary Apthorp Quincy Gould, and other members of the related Gould, Howe, and Quincy families, as well as classmates from Bryn Mawr College, among others. There are also photographs from Gould's travels to Puerto Rico, among other places, as well as views of the Gould family homes in Boston, Mass. and Cordoba, Argentina and some reproductions of portrait paintings of various relatives. Photographers include Allen & Rowell, Josiah Johnson Hawes, John Higue Garo, and John Adams Whipple, all of Boston, Mass., and George Kendall Warren of Cambridgeport, Mass. Includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, tintypes, and stereographs.

274 photographs in 2 vols. (1 disbound), 2 boxes, and 1 oversize box.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7779065

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Hawes, Josiah Johnson, 1808-1901

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Gould, Mary Apthorp Quincy, 1834-1883

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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...

Bryn Mawr college

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Allen & Rowell (Boston, Mass.),

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Quincy family

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Gould family

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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...

Gould, Alice Bache, 1868-1953

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Alice Bache Gould, scion of a distinguished New England family, Bryn Mawr graduate, and university teacher in the field of mathematics, became a pioneer scholar of the history of early exploration in the Caribbean, and particularly of Chistopher Columbuss voyages. She pursued this work in many libraries and archives, and spent much of the last forty years of her life in Spain. The collection consists of correspondence between Alice Bache Gould and Samuel Vaughn, her trustee in Boston. The letter...

Howe family

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Garo, John Higue, 1870-1939,

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Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896

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American astronomer. Graduated Harvard, 1844; University of Göttingen (Germany), 1848. He returned to the United States with the hope of establishing an era for astronomy. In 1849 he founded and became the first editor of the "Astronomical Journal." In 1855, he became director of the Dudley Observatory. A public controversy arose when he disagreed with the Scientific Council and Trustees of the Observatory as to management of the facility. He was terminated as director in 1859. From ...