Colonial Society of Massachusetts visual materials collection, ca. 1860-1961.

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Colonial Society of Massachusetts visual materials collection, ca. 1860-1961.

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Photographs and other visual materials related to and collected by members of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Most of the photographers are unidentified, and many of the photographs are copy photographs. The bulk of the collection consists of portraits, including oversize, of portraits of various members of the Channing, Crowninshield, and Endicott families, as well as of various American public figures; many are unidentified. There are also views and architectural studies of various places in Europe and the United States, including snapshot photographs of Boston, Mass. taken ca. 1900; photographic reproductions of portrait paintings, political cartoons, and plans and maps of Washington, D.C. and other cities; mounted Underwood & Underwood news photographs of major events of the early 20th century, taken ca. 1919-1935; documentary photographs taken by Margaret Bourke-White and Berenice Abbott; and loose photographs and one volume of snapshots of an unidentified family at their farm near Pennesseewasee Lake in Maine, taken ca. 1898-1904. A second volume contains portraits and autographs of members of the Colonial Society. The collection also contains illustrated journals dating from 1895 and 1955. Includes cartes de visite, film transparencies, chromolithographs, photomechanical prints, glass plate negatives, and lantern slides.

352 photographs and graphics in 2 narrow boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and 2 vols.; 8 glass plate negatives in 2 boxes; 111 lantern slides in 4 boxes; and 1 oversize box of illustrated journals.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7782280

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Underwood & Underwood

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Channing (Family : Channing, William Ellery, 1727-1820)

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The Channings were a prominent Massachusetts family with strong ties to the Unitarian church and the anti-slavery movement. From the guide to the Correspondence and other papers, 1825-1936., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991

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b.1898; d, 1991. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122462170 B. in Springfield, Ohio on July 17, 1898; d. 1991 in Monson, Maine, age 93. From the description of Berenice Abbott : Artist File. (International Center of Photography). WorldCat record id: 437266448 Berenice Abbott was born July 17, 1898 in Springfield, Ohio. She attended Ohio State University, but left early in 1918, movin...

Colonial society of Massachusetts

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Crowninshield family

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Endicott family

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Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971

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Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was an American photographer, war correspondent, author and photojournalist. Among her many achievements, she was the first foreign photographer allowed to take pictures in the USSR of Soviet industry, the first female war correspondent, and the first female photographer for Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover. She was the author of more than ten books, including her autobiography Portrait of Myself (1963). She received numerous award...