Family and friends [graphic] [ca. 1870]

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Family and friends [graphic] [ca. 1870]

A small carte de visite album compiled by an unknown person, possibly a member of the Longfellow family. Among the photographs are portraits of the children of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Charles Appleton, Ernest Wadsworth, and Alice Mary), translators of Longfellow's poetry (Ferdinand Freiligrath, Jean Baptiste François Ernest Chatelain, and Mikhail Larionovich Mikhaǐlov), and friends of Longfellow (Charles Sumner, Anna Maria Fielding Hall, Samuel Carter Hall, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and Jules Marcou). The album also includes portraits of Harriet Spelman (later Mrs. Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow) and Mrs. Charles Sumner (neé Alice Mason).

1 photograph album with 15 cartes de visite ; album 16 x 12 x 3 cn,

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SNAC Resource ID: 8096133

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J.E. Tilton and Company

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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Poet, from Cambridge (Middlesex Co.), Mass. From the description of Papers, 1859-1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903002 American author and poet. From the description of A psalm of life, fourth verse, 1850. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 274069802 American teacher, translator, and poet. From the description of Letter, Nahant, Mass., to Mrs. T.B. Lawrence, Newport, 1872 July 20. (Boston Athenaeum...

Longfellow, Alice M. (Alice Mary), 1850-1928

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Born 22 September 1850 to Henry Wadsworth and Frances Appleton Longfellow, Alice Longfellow lived a privileged life with her family in Cambridge, enjoying her studies and developing a love of travel after a visit to Maine in 1863, when she was only 12 years old. After the death of her mother in 1861, Longfellow took on something of a caretaker role to her two younger sisters, earning her the depiction of "grave Alice" in her father's famous poem, The Children's Hour. At the age of 21, Alice Lo...

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 ...

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864

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Epithet: Vice-president of the American Ethnological Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x0000a9 Author, Indian agent and ethnologist. From the description of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft papers, 1826-1841. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418398 Henry Schoolcraft was an ethnologist, geologist, Indian agent, and glass manufacturer. From th...

Mason, Alice, ca. 1836-1911

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Longfellow, Charles Appleton

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Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 1810-1876

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German poet and revolutionary. From the description of Letters, to Karl Heinzen, 1845-1848. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34367510 Ferdinand Freiligrath was a popular and important 19th century German poet. His evolution from early lyrical poems to mature, politically aware works mirrors Germany's literary transition from Romanticism to social concern. Freiligrath was also a significant translator of English works into German. From the description...

Dana, Edith Longfellow, 1853-1915

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Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth, 1845-1921

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Ernest Longfellow was a noted landscape painter and son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Harriet Longfellow, his wife, was a painter also. They resided in New York City and in Magnolia, Mass. From the description of Ernest Wadsworth and Harriet S. Wadsworth Longfellow sketchbooks 1867-1903. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455496 ...

Chatelain, Jean Baptiste François Ernest, chevalier de, 1801-1881

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Hall, S. C., Mrs., 1800-1881

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Anna Maria Hall, née Fielding, Irish-born writer. From the description of Mrs. S. C. Hall manuscript material : 1 item, [ca. early 1850's] (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 666533041 Mrs. Cunningham was the wife of Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and biographer of Robert Burns. From the description of Letter : to Mrs. Allan Cunningham, [between 1842 and 1860?] / Anna Maria Hall. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 36864744 I...

Longfellow, Harriet Spelmam, 1848-1937

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Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889

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English editor and critic. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 15 Ashley Place [London], to "My dear Sir", [no year] June 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270497889 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : [London], to John Ruskin, [1864] Aug. 25 and Oct 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270507258 From the description of Autograph signature to printed card, 1874 Sept 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270508801 From the descri...

Silvy, Camille-Léon-Louis, 1834-1910

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Mikhaĭlov, Mikhail Larionovich, 1829-1865

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Marcou, Jules, 1824-1898

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Marcou was a French geologist who traveled and worked in the U.S. He wrote many articles and books on geological topics. Belknap was possibly a naturalist. From the description of Correspondence, 1837-1889. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122405065 Jules Marcou was a French geologist who traveled and worked in the U.S. He wrote many articles and books on geological topics. Belknap was possibly a naturalist. From the guide to the Jules Marcou corresponde...

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...