Adams family photographs III, 1859-1875.

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Adams family photographs III, 1859-1875.

1859-1875

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Portrait photographs of members of the Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886) family. Subjects include Charles Francis Adams and his wife Abigail Brooks Adams; their sons Brooks Adams, Henry Adams, and John Quincy Adams (1833-1894); their daughters Mary Adams Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams Kuhn; Louisa's husband Charles Kuhn; and grandchildren John Quincy Adams (1862-1876) and George Caspar Adams. Photographers include John Adams Whipple of Boston, Mass.; Frederick Gutekunst of Philadelphia, Pa.; and Félix Nadar of Paris, France, among other Boston, French, and English photographers. Most of the photographs are cartes de visite.

20 photographs in 1 narrow box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7793809

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Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910

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Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Epithet: alias 'Nadar'; French caricaturist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000266.0x0001c6 ...

Adams, Abigail Brooks, 1808-1889

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Adams, John Quincy, 1833-1894

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Adams, Henry, 1838-1918

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Adams, Brooks, 1848-1927

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American historian. From the description of Letter, 1912 Oct. 9, Quincy, to the editor of the American Biographical Cyclopedia. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166327901 Adams was an American historian. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1899-1907. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122581267 From the guide to the Miscellaneous papers, 1899-1907., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Brooks Ad...

Kuhn, Charles, 1821-1899

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Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917

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Quincy, Mary Adams, 1845-1928

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Adams, George Caspar, 1863-1900

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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...

Adams, John Quincy, 1862-1876

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