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1862
albums # 219,220a,b,c, 222a,b,
GUSN-272907
The cloth-bound album is inscribed to William Samuel Eliot "from his Grandma on his Birthday, March 16, 1862 A.D." It contains 25 cartes-de-visite portraits including three of Samuel Eliot; also Mrs. Samuel Eliot, Mrs. William Eliot, Emily Marshall Eliot (pictured as a young girl with her dog "Bounce," later mother of noted historian Samuel Eliot Morison), Margaret, Amory, and many of children. The portraits are identified in ink in the hand of Samuel Eliot Morison. The costumes of the children are of particular interest.
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
children (people by age group)
dress (culture-related concept)
photograph albums
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
album number 222a
1 photograph album; 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches
PC009
Photograph albums collection
2006
PC009.222A
Museum Purchase
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
photograph albums
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
Eliot , William Samuel
Eliot , Samuel , Mrs.
Eliot , Emily Marshall, Miss
pets
children
Boston
cartes-de-viste
Item
albums # 219,220a,b,c, 222a,b,
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