Photograph collection of the Alice Abbott Wong family, 1893-1951
Overview
Black and white formal portraits and candid photographs of Alice Abbott Wong; her parents, George W. and Ellen Allen Abbott; her husband, Chan Wong; her children, Annie Langley, Howard Langley, Ellen Langley Tong St. Claire, and Elsie Wong Evans; and her grandson, Frank Tong Joyce.
Dates
- Creation: 1893-1951
Creator
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the photographs in the Alice Abbott Wong family photograph collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Photographs may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
.21 linear feet (1/2 file box)The photograph collection of the Alice Abbott Wong family contains black and white formal portraits and candid photographs of Alice Abbott Wong; her parents, George W. and Ellen Allen Abbott; her husband, Chan Wong; her children, Annie Langley, Howard Langley, Ellen Langley Tong St. Claire, and Elsie Wong Evans; and her grandson, Frank Tong Joyce. Portraits were taken by photograph studios in Concord, Laconia, Manchester, and Tilton, New Hampshire, as well as New York City. Among the candid photographs are several depicting men, including Chan Wong, hunting. Most of the photographs in this collection are or will be digitized and available online.
BIOGRAPHY
Alice Abbott Wong, daughter of George W. and Ellen Abbott, was born April 28, 1872, in Belmont, New Hampshire. In 1892, she married Rufus Howard Langley; they had three children, Howard (1893-1966), Ellen (1894-1972), and Annie (1905-1913), before divorcing in 1913. She then married Quong Chan (known as Chan) Wong, who was born China in 1888 and immigrated to the United States in 1906. He became a United States citizen in 1946. Alice and Chan had a daughter, Elsie Li Wong (1915-2005), who married William George Evans (1912-1996) in 1934. Alice and Chan both died in 1956 and were buried in Loudon, New Hampshire. Ellen Langley attended Tilton Seminary in Tilton, New Hampshire, where she met Su Hong Tong, a student from Shanghai, China, who went by the name Edward S. Tong. They married July 24, 1911, in Concord, New Hampshire, and had a son, Frank Yue Tong, in 1912. The Tongs eventually separated and Ellen later married and divorced Andrew St. Claire. She died in August 1972. Frank changed his name to Frank Tong Joyce in 1943. He married Eileen Germaine Sullivan in 1938; they had five children. Frank died in January 1985.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 2023-M184
The photograph collection of the Alice Abbott Wong family was acquired by the Schlesinger Library from Downtown Brown Books in December 2023.
Processing Information
Processed: May 2024
By: Johanna Carll
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
Creator
- Title
- Wong (Family : Wong, Alice Abbott, 1872-1956). Photograph collection of the Alice Abbott Wong family, 1893-1951: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by the Alice Jeannette Ward Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch02286
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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