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Photograph album 88A

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1860-1879

GUSN

GUSN-269044

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Description

Carte de visite album, probably from the 1860s and 1870s. An inscription in the front reads, "Harrie's pictures - age one month - fourteen months - three years - five years - seven years, five months - ten years, two months." It was probably given to a child and filled up for him. Families represented here are Pine, Faulkner and Hawbey. Photographers represented are R.A. Miller from Boston and Bushby & Hart of Lynn, Mass. Other photographers in the album are from Salem and Lowell, Mass., Concord, N.H. and San Francisco.

Details

Descriptive Terms

gifts
families
portraits
photograph albums
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

Physical Description

1 photograph album

Collection Code

PC009

Collection Name

Photograph albums collection

Reference Code

PC009.088A

Acquisition Type

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Dora Lunty

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Lynn (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Salem (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Lowell (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Concord (Merrimack county, New Hampshire)
San Francisco (San Francisco county, California)

Record Details

Originator

Miller, Russell A. (Photographer)
Bushby & Hart (Photographer)

Material Type

photograph albums
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

Description Level

Item

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