Series V. PHOTOGRAPHS, ca.1860-1972 (#PD.1-PD.45)
Scope and Contents
Series V, PHOTOGRAPHS, ca.1860-1972 (#PD.1-PD.45), includes formal and informal portraits of Katharine Beecher Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Walter Stetson, Grace Ellery Channing, their families and friends. Photographic formats include a daguerreotype, tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cyanotypes, salt prints, albumen prints, and silver gelatin prints. There are several images, including tintypes, of Charlotte Perkins Gilman as a young girl. A number of photographs show Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katharine Beecher Stetson, and the Channing family in Pasadena and other Southern California locales during the 1890s. Several photographs of the MacDowell Colony in Petersborough, New Hampshire, show buildings under construction and early residents in their art studios. Other photographs show the artist colony Byrdcliffe and Katharine Beecher Stetson's art school in Rome. There are also a number of photographs of Katharine Beecher Stetson, Frank Tolles Chamberlin, and Charles Walter Stetson in their art studios. Katharine Beecher Stetson visited Hillside Inn, a water cure facility in Wyoming, New York, in 1916 with the poet Lydia Avery Coonley Ward. Photographs (#PD.43) of the trip show a Greek pageant, groups eating on the veranda, and dancing on the lawn. The series is arranged alphabetically.
Dates
- Creation: 1826-1972
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1890-1937
Language of Materials
Materials in English, some correspondence in Italian.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Extent
14.51 linear feet ((22 file boxes, 1 folio box, 2 oversize boxes) plus 3 folio folders, 4 folio+ folders, 42 photograph folders, 2 folio photograph folders, 1 folio+ photograph folder)Physical Location
Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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