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Studio portrait of Lucy Maria Tappan Bowen, seated, facing front, with flowers in one hand, location unknown

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

undated

Location Note

Bowen Family Papers / Series A, Album 27

GUSN

GUSN-196217

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Description

Lucy Bowen was the daughter of the abolitionist Lewis Tappan and the wife of businessman Henry Chandler Bowen, founder of "The Independent," a religion and anti-slavery journal.

Details

Descriptive Terms

portraits
women (female humans)
abolitionists
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 001247
AccessID 2005
Other identifier HNEDID-001247

Physical Description

1 carte-de-visite

Collection Code

MS006

Collection Name

Bowen family papers

Reference Code

MS006.03.04.02.004

Places

Woodstock (Windham county, Connecticut)

Record Details

Material Type

cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

Other People

Bowen, Lucy Maria (Tappan), 1825-1863
Bowen, Henry Chandler, 1813-1896
Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873

Other Organizations

Bowen family
Historic New England (Organization)

Subjects

Historic New England properties
Antislavery movements

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Bowen Family Papers / Series A, Album 27

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