Robert H. Richards photograph albums, ca. 1900.

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Robert H. Richards photograph albums, ca. 1900.

Three albums of photographs. First album has imprinted on leather cover in gold: Kennebec County, Maine. Written inside: "All photographs in this book were taken by Robert Hallowell Richards; they were taken on glass plates, developed and printed by R.H.R." Second vol. in red leather. Written inside: "Photographs taken by Robert H. Richards on plates, developed and printed by him." Third album is only paper (unbound) and has sticker on the front: "Rosalind Richard's photo album." People and scenes (chiefly vacation) are mostly identified. Subjects include the Yellow House (Gardiner, Me.) and Cobbosseecontee Lake.

3 v.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8160577

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Gardner family

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Yellow House (Gardiner, Me.)

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Richards, Robert H. (Robert Hallowell), 1844-1945

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Robert H. Richards was the son of Henry and Laura E. Richards, of Gardiner, Me. He was an American mining engineer, metallurgist, and educator, born at Gardiner, Me. In 1868 with the first class to leave the institution, he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and there he taught for 46 years, becoming professor of mineralogy and assaying in 1871, head of the department of mining engineering in 1873, and in 1884 also professor of Metallurgy. Rosalind Richards, author and lit...

Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943

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The daughter of Samuel Gridley and Julia (Ward) Howe, Richards was the author of more than eighty books, most of them for young people. She and her sister, Maude Howe Elliott, wrote Life and Letters of Julia Ward Howe (1910), which received the first Pulitzer Prize for biography. For additional biographical information, see American Women Writers (1981). From the description of Letter, 1904. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008342 ...

Richards, Rosalind, 1874-1964

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Richards was the daughter of Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [between 1940 and 1961]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 183652590 Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet and an acquaintance of the Richards family from Gardiner, Maine. From the description of Rosalind Richards collection on Edward Arlington Robinson, ca.1897-1944. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82065...

Richards family

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