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Photograph album 88B

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1860-1879

GUSN

GUSN-269046

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Description

Carte de visite album, probably 1860s and 1870s. Some photos are unidentified. Families pictured here are Wasgath, Weston, Page, Russell, Horton, Batchelder, Pitman and Pine. John Adams Whipple of Boston and N.C. Sanborn of Lowell, Mass. have photographs represented here. There is also an interesting photograph of two children with a toy sheep.

Details

Descriptive Terms

families
portraits
children (people by age group)
photograph albums
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

Physical Description

1 photograph album

Collection Code

PC009

Collection Name

Photograph albums collection

Reference Code

PC009.088B

Acquisition Type

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Dora Lunty

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Lowell (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891 (Photographer)
Sanborn, N. C. (Nathaniel C.), 1829 or 30-1886 (Photographer)

Material Type

photograph albums
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

Description Level

Item

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