Francis James Child family photographs, ca. 1860-1950.

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Francis James Child family photographs, ca. 1860-1950.

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Portrait photographs of the family of Francis James Child, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and professor of English at Harvard College (1851-96), of Cambridge, Mass. Subjects include Child, his wife Elizabeth Ellery Sedgwick Child, and their daughters Helen Maria Castillia Child and Susan Child; Elizabeth's mother Elizabeth Dana Ellery Sedgwick; descendant Ellery Sedgwick; and colleagues of Francis James Child, including Charles Eliot Norton, Henry James (1811-1882), and William James, among others. Photographers include Boynton & Heald of Boston, Mass. and Charles D. Fredricks of New York, N.Y.; most of the photographers are unidentified. Includes cartes de visite and tintypes.

13 photographs in 1 narrow box.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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