Series II: Daguerreotype
General Note
Where identified, the photographer's name appears in brackets after the image title.
To locate the box number of a particular image, consult the list in the Arrangement note.
Mrs. Peter MacMartin (Harriet Lyon) (2 Images in 1 Case)
General note
Female head shot, front view, wearing white bonnet and collar.
General note
Card catalog states that a handwritten note accompanies these daguerreotypes which states "Daguerreotype of Harriet (Lyon) MacMartin (Mrs. Peter MacMartin) with two small gold lockets containing copies of the head from the daguerreotype made for Mrs. MacM
Oliver H. Corsa
General note
Portrait of male figure, front view, wearing white shirt and dark bow tie with collar up around neck and dark coat, hair long to bottom of ears.
General note
Daguerreotype found enclosed in 1895 pharmaceutical box from Henry Buch, Dispensing Pharmacist, Columbus Ave. and 92nd St., NY, reads "One Capsule Every Three Hours", prescribed by Dr. Harris; Enclosed note states that sitter is son of John Lawrence Corsa
Unidentified Female Palmer Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure, front view, high white collar, print dress.
Unidentified Child
General note
Young child, front view, wearing dark blouse, blurred.
Anna Winslow MacMartin (Mrs. Finlay MacLaren) or Unidentified Female MacMartin Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing bonnet with flowers with large white bow under chin and checked dress.
General note
Unidentified sitter may be "daughter of Peter and Harriet (Lyon) MacMartin and mother of Mrs. George Richards (Harriet MacMartin MacLaren) and grandmother of donor.
Unidentified Male Webb Family Member or Friend [Cathan], [1843-1850]
General note
Male figure, 1/4 profile, wearing black jacket, white shirt, black bow tie, white collar, sideburns.
Unidentified Female Webb Family Member or Friend [Cathan], [1843-1850]
General note
Female figure wearing white collar with brooch, patterned blouse, hair parted in middle.
Sue Ellis (Mrs. John Hewston Jr.) [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure, wearing long curls, white bow at neck, front view.
General note
Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
Charles Stedman Hanks
General note
Infant, front view, wearing off the shoulder baby gown of a dark color.
Cornelia Trimble Kirby
General note
Female head shot, front view, smiling.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing striped (?) dress with white scalloped collar, brooch, hair parted in middle, earrings, 1/4 length.
Unidentified Female Hincken Family Member or Friend
General note
Female head-shot, front view, wearing white collar, hair parted in middle.
James Mathew Delano [Quinby]
General note
Male figure, indiscernible.
Unidentified Male Durand/Delano Family Member or Friend [Quinby]
General note
Male figure, clean-shaven, wearing white collar, hair parted on sitter's right.
Eugene A. Hoffman or Unidentified Male Hoffman Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, front view, sideburns, high white collar, dark jacket, buttons down front of vest.
Mrs. John Stoneacre Ellis (Julia Livingston Waterbury) [Anson, Rufus], 1857/00/00
General note
Female figure, hair parted in middle, wearing white lace collar and brooch.
Sue Ellis (Mrs. John Hewston Jr.)
General note
Female figure, front view, braid on top of hair, white lace collar, smiling, necklace.
General note
verso silver; Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
Unidentified Female MacMartin or MacLaren Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure, front view, hair parted in middle, white collar.
General note
Survey card states that this may be Mrs. Finlay MacLaren
Unidentified Low Family Member or Friend
General note
Female? Figure (bust), hair parted on side, wearing light-colored collar and dark jacket/blouse.
Unidentified Male Palmer Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, clean shaven, high white collar, white shirt, black bow tie, hair parted on side.
Unidentified Female Hurlbutt Family Member
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing white collar, bow tie, curls.
Volney B. Palmer
General note
Male figure, front view, clean-shaven, wearing white shirt, collar, tie, and light vest.
General note
Another Daguerreotype (apparently a) copy of this image is in the Cased Images collection.
Unidentified Female (Daughter of General A. E. Burnside)
General note
Female figure, 3/4 profile view, bust, wearing off the shoulder black dress with brooch, hair parted in middle and pulled pack.
General note
Sitter is Daughter of General A.E. Burnside.
Volney B. Palmer
General note
Male figure, front view, clean-shaven, wearing white shirt, collar, tie, and light vest.
General note
Another Daguerreotype (apparently a) copy of this image is in the Cased Images collection.
Unidentified Infant [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Infant standing wearing patterned dress.
Unidentified Male [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing black jacket and bow tie, white shirt with high white collar, necklace, hair parted on side.
Unidentified Female DeGroot Family Member or Friend [Rees & Co.]
General note
Female figure seated wearing black gloves and holding white handkerchief on lap, black dress with velvet stripe, hair with curls in front and some hair pulled back, white collar.
Charles Hawley [Rees & Co.]
General note
3/4-length portrait of male figure wearing white shirt, clean-shaven, right hand on lap, left hand resting on what appears to be a cane.
General note
Card catalog states that original envelope read "Hawley, Charles-Lt. Gov. of Connecticut, father of Mrs. William de Groot. Nee Elizabeth King Hawley."
Charles Hawley [Rees & Co.]
General note
Portrait of young boy, front view, with hair long over ears, wearing light jacket, white collar, and dark foulard.
General note
Accompanying note reads "Hawley, Charles-Lt. Gov. of Connecticut, father of Mrs. William de Groot. Nee Elizabeth King Hawley."
Unidentified Male Gilder Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure seated wearing black jacket, black vest with buttons, white shirt, dark bow tie, full-beard, his right arm resting on table?.
Emily Stuart Meier-Smith (DuBois)
General note
Young girl seated front view with hands on lap, hair parted in middle, wearing off the shoulder dress with lace trim.
Norman White Meier-Smith [Tyler & Co.]
General note
Young boy seated in small chair, hair parted on side, wearing white collar, short sleeved blouse, left arm resting on arm of chair, right arm at side.
General note
Advertisement verso: "BOSTON Daguerreotype Company TYLER & CO. Corner Winter and Washington Streets. / Portraits 25 Cents, and upwards. 600 Executed Daily, by the DOUBLE CAMERA--TWO AT A POP. / BEWARE OF IMITATIONS."
Unidentified Young Female
General note
Young female figure wearing dark dress with white lace collar, brooch, hair parted in middle, front view, 1/3 length.
John Rogers [James & Co.], [ca1855-1858]
General note
Male figure, head turned slightly to right, bearded, white shirt, black bow tie, hair down nape of neck.
General note
Sitter is a sculptor.
Sarah Hopper Powell or Unidentified Female Powell Family Member or Friend [Laus, George]
General note
Young female figure, seated with her right arm resting on lap, wearing black short sleeved dress with white lace collar and white lace trim at sleeves, bow in hair?.
General note
Sitter is identified as "Mother - S. H. P."
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing white bonnet with striped ties in bow at neck, dark dress with white collar and cuffs, black shawl, gloves, seated with her right hand at waist and left hand on lap.
Louis Godey Weymss [Jube, T.S.], 1853/00/00
General note
Male figure, front view, seated with right elbow on table, clean shaven, wearing blue half-sleeved shirt, long white sleeved shirt underneath (turtleneck?).
General note
Sitter is son of Francis Courtney Weymss and godson of Louis A. Godey.
Young Male Halsey Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure wearing dark tie, white shirt, dark jacket, moustache.
Sarah Brinkerhoff?
General note
Portrait of a female figure wearing a white collar and earring on right ear.
General note
Inscribed under dag in graphite: "SARAH BRINKERHOFF".
Mrs. Robert B. Roosevelt (Elizabeth Ellis)
General note
Portrait of female figure, turned to sitter's right wearing brooch at neck, checked dress, hair in braids and curls and parted in middle
General note
Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
Unidentified Young Female
General note
Young female figure, front view, wearing off the shoulder dress with horizontal stripes, earrings, bust, hair parted in middle and pulled back.
Unidentified Young Male Averell Family Member or Friend
General note
Portrait (bust) of clean shaven young male figure in frontal view with white collar, black foulard with stickpin
Jenny Lind
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing white blouse and lace collar and brooch.
Unidentified Young Female Rose Family Member
General note
Young girl, head turned to right, hair pulled down and made into bun at back of head, scooped neck collar with lace trim.
General note
Sitter is identified as a protégé of James Mathew Delano (1831-1888)
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, head turned 3/4 to right, bust, lace collar, u-shaped neckline with pleated cloth next to lace collar.
General note
Daguerreotype found in "S" Box, but sitter is Unidentified.
Samuel Hopper Brown
General note
Male figure wearing black jacket and white collar with gray shirt underneath buttoned up to collar (no tie).
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, clean-shaven, wearing white shirt, bow tie, dark coat.
Frank Ridgeway
General note
Young male figure, front view, head slightly to left, clean shaven, wearing uniform coat of civil war period (GAR) and white collar.
General note
Sitter was a surgeon, 74th Volunteers 1861-1964.
Young Female Halsey Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing dark blouse, white lace collar, choker necklace, long necklace, brooch, head covering.
McKay Adelaide (Mrs. William Hubbard), 1855/00/00
General note
Female figure, seated with hands on lap, wearing white lace collar, necklace and pendant, hair parted in middle.
General note
verso: cu
Mary Eveline Fellows Paine
General note
Female figure, seated front view 3/4-length, hands on lap, wearing a white bonnet, sash under chin, dark dress.
General note
Lock of hair in window verso.
Charles Litchfield Ellison, 1855/12/14
General note
Male figure (bust) with moustache wearing black bow tie and jacket, as well as white shirt with collar up.
James Mathew Delano
General note
Young boy, 3/4-length, front view, seated, wearing white collar and bow tie, with left arm on table, right arm on side of chair, and kerchief in breast pocket.
Thomas Edwin Delano
General note
Portrait of male figure, front view, wearing white collar, clean-shaven.
General note
Sitter is father of Mortimer Delano (1869- )
Mrs. John Stoneacre Ellis (Julia Livingston Waterbury) [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure, front view, hair parted in middle, wearing white collar and bow tie.
General note
Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
Julia Malbone Pyle
General note
Female seated with right arm on table, left hand on lap, front view, wearing brooch, bow around neck, white blouse, three striped braid on cuffs and collar of coat.
Lily Palmer (Mrs. Siegfried Berens)
General note
Young girl seated with hands clasped on lap, wearing off the shoulder short sleeved print dress.
Jacob Lindley Pyle
General note
3/4-length portrait of seated male figure, front view, left arm on table, wearing white shirt, black bow tie, bearded, right hand on lap.
Julia Malbone Pyle
General note
Female seated with hands on lap, wearing fur piece around shoulder, bonnet with pink ribbon, brooch, gloves?.
Mary Reed
General note
Female figure, seated, front view, left elbow resting on table, wearing plaid dress with white collar and cuffs, long curls.
George Stevens Schermerhorn Jr. [Holmes, S. A. (Silas A.), 1819 or 20-1886], [1847-ca1858]
General note
Male figure, front view, clean-shaven, hair parted on side, down over ears, with white collar, white bow tie.
James W. Cromwell, 1845/00/00
General note
Young boy seated with hands on lap, wearing large white collar, short-sleeved blouse with buttons down front.
Peter Zabriskie Elmendorf
General note
Male figure, front view, 1/2-length, seated next to table with 3 books on it, and wearing dark suit with white shirt and white foulard.
Kate Comstock
General note
Young girl seated with hands on lap, wearing black lace gloves, hair shoulder-length in long corkscrew curls, parted in middle, wearing black off-the-shoulder dress that is short-sleeved with white lace cuffs.
General note
Sitter is Daughter of Peter Comstock.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure 1/4 profile view wearing white collar and shirt, black jacket, gray hair, brooch, holding book?.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing hat with black jacket and vest, black bow tie, white shirt with collar turned down, seated with hands at waist.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure with full beard, wearing black jacket, white shirt, black vest and bow tie, sideburns, front view, 1/4 length.
Unidentified Young Female
General note
Young female figure, front view, seated with hands on lap, wearing black lace gloves, dark dress with short sleeves and white cuffs, white scalloped collar, brooch, hair parted in middle, ribbon in hair.
Young Female Halsey Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure, seated with left arm resting on table and right hand over left wrist near lap, wearing white dress, choker necklace with gold, black lace open finger gloves, hair parted in middle.
Unidentified Young Male Potter Family Member
General note
Young boy standing, front view, hands in pocket, blouse has cross hatch decoration, white trim in front.
Julia M. Gilbert (Mrs. George Stevens Schermerhorn Jr.)
General note
Young female figure, seated, front view, wearing earrings, white collar, black dress, gloves, hands clasped on lap.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, seated, 1/4 length, wearing black bow-tie, white shirt with turned down collar, black vest and jacket.
Unidentified Male, 1857/00/00
General note
Male figure, front view, bearded with sideburns, curly hair, wearing white shirt, black jacket and vest, black neckerchief, 1/4 length.
Unidentified Young Female
General note
Young girl seated wearing pink dress with bows at shoulders, hair in curls and parted in middle, short to ears, hands on lap, wearing necklace, bracelets, table on her right.
Mrs. James P. Harper (Margaret Perego) or Unidentified Harper Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure, front view, hair parted in middle, white lace scalloped collar, brooch.
Unidentified Male [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Male figure seated wearing black coat with white shirt and collar, hands folding with his left arm resting on arm of chair, hair parted on side, clean-shaven.
Unidentified Female Gilder Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure seated with her left arm resting on table, wearing glove only on her left hand, wearing black dress with white lace collar and brooch, hair parted in middle.
Unidentified Male Honeywell Family Member
General note
Male figure, clean-shaven, white hair, white collar, dark bow tie, front view.
James Philip Harper, 1853/00/00
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing white shirt, black bow tie, beard.
General note
Card catalogue states that sitter is father of Lathrop Colgate Harper.
Mrs. Abram Stevens Hewitt (Sarah Amelia Cooper)
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing white collar and brooch, hair parted in middle.
Unidentified Female Hurlbutt Family Member
General note
Female figure, profile, wearing white collar with brooch, hair parted in middle, bun in back, flower in hair, six large white buttons on dress, long earrings.
Unidentified Male Palmer Family Member or Friend [Allen, A.M. (Amos M.), 1823-1907], [ca1845-1870s]
General note
Young male figure, seated, wearing white shirt, black bow tie, right elbow in table, hair parted on side.
Louisa Shotwell Underhill
General note
Female figure, seated, front view, half-length, ribbon in hair, left elbow on table, book in right hand on lap.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure wearing glasses, front view, large circular brooch, white scalloped collar, hair parted in middle, white bonnet, dark dress with buttons on front.
Unidentified Young Male
General note
Male figure on white background wearing patterned vest, black jacket, black bow tie, white shirt and white collar turned down, clean shaven, hair cleanly parted on side, front view, 1/4 length, handkerchief in pocket.
Unidentified Female [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing scalloped white collar with brooch, hair parted in middle, black dress.
Unidentified Female Bailey Family Member
General note
3/4-length portrait of female wearing bonnet with white trim near ears and hair parted in middle
Walter Meade Halsey and Mrs. George Albert Halsey (Josephine Mead) [Jaquith, Nathaniel C.], [1848-1850s]
General note
Infant seated on lap on unidentified person, front view, full figure, wearing white jumper or apron and dark skirt.
General note
Donor is sister of Walter and Daughter of Josephine.
Unidentified Young Female Bailey Family Member or Friend
General note
3/4-length female seated figure about 12-14 years of age, wearing three strand pearl type necklace, hands clasped and hair braided in two strands
Mrs. Isaac John Greenwood (Mary McKay)
General note
3/4-length female, seated, front view with hands on lap, wearing lace hair piece and collar, shawl and large brooch.
Dr. J. Duane Jones
General note
Male figure, front view, bearded, wearing high white collar, white shirt, black bow tie, moustache.
M. Duane Jones [E.E.S. & Co.]
General note
Female figure, front view with hair in long curls to shoulders, hands on lap, ribbon and bow on front of dress, white collar, large white cuffs.
S. W. Jones [Holmes, S. A. (Silas A.), 1819 or 20-1886], 1855/00/00
General note
Male figure with white hair, clean shaven, wearing high white collar, black bow tie, white shirt.
Unidentified Young Female Livingston Family Member or Friend
General note
Young female wearing white collar, dark plaid dress buttoned down front.
Cornelia White or Unidentified Female Stuyvesant Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure seated with gloved hands on lap, wearing black dress and black bonnet with large velvet ties in bow at neck, hair tightly braided inside bonnet, black cape.
Unidentified Female Stuyvesant Family Member or Friend [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure (bust), wearing hair in small braids, hat, large bow at neck, white lace collar, dark blouse.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, large white sideburns, white hair, patterned vest, black jacket and bow-tie, white shirt, front view, 1/4 length.
Mrs. John Van Nest (Elizabeth Leiper Janeway)
General note
Female figure, front view, hair parted in middle, wearing black dress, brooch, earrings.
Mrs. John Murray (Anna Olyphant)
General note
Female figure, bust, front view, white collar, hair parted in middle, brooch.
General note
Sitter is grandniece-in-law- of Mrs. Robert Murray who diverted the British in 1776.
William Pilcher, Julia Pilcher and Hattie Pillow
General note
Male and female seated, female standing behind center, front view, half-length, female standing has left earring visible, black choker, white blouse, black lace gloves, choker, hands resting on shoulder of male, male is clean shaven, white shirt black bow
General note
William is son of Henry Pilcher and Frances Pillow Pilcher, Julia is his wife and Hattie is Julia's elder sister.
Unidentified Male Webb Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure (bust) wearing silk bow tie with floral pattern, dark jacket, white shirt, hair parted on side, moustache, sideburns.
Ike Wheaton, 1853/00/00
General note
Portrait of a male (bust) with moustache and beard, white shirt and solid color foulard, as well as a white handkerchief in breast pocket.
General note
Recto: "Ike Wheaton 1853"
Jennie McNulty (Mrs. Robert Parish)
General note
3/4-length portrait of a young female seated with right hand holding wrist of left hand on lap, wearing white collar and cuffs.
General note
Sitter is wife of Robert Parish.
Martha Cambell McNulty
General note
3/4 length portrait of a female, seated, with curls on either side of face, white collar, ring on second finger of right hand.
Mrs. Isaac Smith (Maria Abernathy Burr) [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Portrait of a female with hair to bottom of neck, wearing dark blouse with white collar and light bow tie.
General note
Enclosed note states identity and history of sitter.
Mary Elizabeth Concklin
General note
3/4-length portrait of a female, front view, seated with her left elbow on a table, wearing earring and brooch, long sleeved dark dress, black chain around her neck, and black wristlets.
Unidentified Male Constant Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure (bust), clean-shaven, wearing dark bow tie, white collar and dark jacket.
Edward Cooper
General note
Portrait of male figure, front view, wearing white collar and shirt, checked vest, dark foulard, clean-shaven.
General note
Accompanying note describes history of Cooper Collection at NYHS.
Unidentified Female Member of Rose Family, Protege of James Mathew Delano
General note
Young girl, front view, with long curls and hands placed on lap, wearing white dress and short cape with fringes, finger-less gloves and brooch at collar.
Thomas Edwin Delano [Lawrence], 1853/26/12
General note
Young male figure, 3/4-length, front view, wearing top hat, white shirt, large bow tie, gloves, dark overcoat, clean-shaven with left hand resting on chair partially out of frame.
General note
recto: "taken on the 26th day of December 1854 when 19 years of age Th. E. Delano".
Thomas Edwin Delano [Anson, Rufus], 1862/05/26
General note
Portrait of male figure, front view, wearing white shirt, striped bow tie and moustache.
General note
recto: graphite inscription "May 26th 1862"; Sitter is son of Captain Thomas Delano.
Nelson Eames
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing bow tie and white shirt with high pointed collar.
General note
Sitter is father of Wilberforce Eames.
Mrs. Phoebe Harriet (Crane) Eames
General note
Female figure, seated with left arm on table, hair in curls to shoulder, wearing dark dress with striped collar and brooch.
General note
Sitter is wife of Nelson Eames and mother of Wilberforce Eames.
Mrs. Phoebe Harriet (Crane) Eames
General note
Female figure, seated with right arm resting on table, hair in curls to shoulder, wearing dark dress with striped collar and brooch.
General note
Newspaper clipping of obituary accompanies image; sitter is wife of Nelson Eames and mother of Wilberforce Eames.
Unidentified Young Female Eames Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure, front view, seated, wearing white collar, lace gloves, hair parted in middle, holding book in left hand.
Unidentified Female Eames Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure wearing bonnet, florally patterned dress, shawl, seated with right hand on table holding what appears to be a tasseled purse?.
James Gallagher Jr.
General note
Full-length portrait of young boy standing next to table with his right arm resting on table, left hand on hip, wearing dark clothes with white cuffs.
Isaac John Greenwood II, ca1850s
General note
Male figure in three piece suit, seated, clean-shaven, wearing bow tie and ring, right hand holding lapel.
Isaac John Greenwood II or Unidentified Greenwood Family Member or Friend, ca1850s
General note
Young boy, front view, resting left elbow on table, wearing coat buttoned up to neck, white collar and cuffs showing.
Mary Louise Greenwood (1828?-1862)
General note
Female figure, seated, front view, wearing polka dot skirt, white lace collar with brooch, left elbow on table, hands on lap.
Mrs. Theo Frelinghuysen and Charlotte Judd
General note
Female figures, one adult seated wearing white bonnet, dotted dress, shawl, one child wearing white dress with v-stripes, standing with hand on lap of adult.
M. Duane Jones
General note
Female figure, seated with right arm resting on table, wearing white scarf in bow, left arm on lap, earrings, dark shawl.
Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, ca1855/00/00
General note
Male figure, profile, head shot, moustache, white collar.
Unidentified Female Livingston Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure, front view, hair parted in middle.
Rev. Joseph D. Marshall
General note
Male figure, half-length, front view, clean shaven, wearing high white collar, white shirt, black bow tie, dark coat.
Mrs. Stephen Edson Paine (Mary Eveline Fellows)
General note
Female figure, front view, seated 3/4-legth, hair parted in middle, scarf with long bow, white cuffs, black dress, pink scarf.
General note
Sitter was attending school at Schuylerville, NY when this image was taken, which was before her marriage in Malta, NY.
Stephen Edson Paine
General note
Young male figure, front view, clean shaven, wearing white collar and shirt, striped vest and bow tie, hair parted on side.
Mary Stagg (Mrs. Wm. Dann)
General note
Young female figure, seated with right arm resting on table, wearing off-the-shoulder patterned dress, ring, hair parted in middle and pulled back in bow.
General note
Sitter is daughter of Thomas and Catherine West Stagg
Mary Stagg (Mrs. Wm. Dann)
General note
Young female figure, seated with hands folded on lap and right elbow resting on table, wearing off-the-shoulder patterned dress, bracelet and rings, hair in braids on sides of head with bows.
Mrs. Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant Sr. or Unidentified Young Female Stuyvesant Family Member or Friend
General note
Young female figure wearing coat with decorative trim, white lace collar, hair parted in middle, bust.
Mrs. Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant Sr.
General note
Young girl with hair in braid, wearing white lace bow collar, dark blouse.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure seated with his right arm resting on table, wearing black vest and unbuttoned black jacket, white shirt, white neckerchief, high collar, bearded, white pants?.
John Ward Jr. [Lawrence]
General note
Male figure, front view, clean shaven, wearing white shirt, large bow tie with dots, black coat with kerchief in breast pocket.
Emma Augusta Collamore
General note
Portrait of a young girl (bust), front view, with curls and white lace collar, and wearing a polka dot dress.
General note
Enclosed note states that sitter is daughter of Davis Collamore and H. Augusta Fiske, and sister of donor.
Frances Pilcher
General note
Portrait of a female with hair parted in middle, hair half in buns on either side of head, and long corkscrew curls hanging, wearing black dress with white lace collar.
General note
Sitter is second daughter of Henry and Frances (Pillas) Pilcher, and was born in England.
Henry Pilcher (1828-?)
General note
Portrait of a male figure, seated, front view, wearing white shirt, dark bow tie, jacket, and vest, with left elbow resting on table; and also wearing a gold ring.
General note
Sitter is eldest son of Henry and Frances (Pillas) Pilcher, and was born in Dover, England.
Anna Vaché Cox, ca1854/00/00
General note
Portrait of infant girl, front view, wearing white dress, head tilted to sitter's left; appears to be sitting on lap of woman wearing brooch who is only partially shown.
General note
Infant sitter is third daughter of John Vaché and Eliza Cox.
Isaac Michael Dyckman
General note
Male figure, seated with left arm leaning on table, front view, clean shaven, wearing white weskit and black foulard.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing plaid vest, whit shirt, black jacket and black neckerchief, beard under chin, sideburns, hands on lap with book, 1/2 length.
William Pilcher and Julia Pilcher [Wright, M.]
General note
Male and female figures, seated, female wearing print dress, rings, brooch, high white lace collar, hands clasped on lap, cross on necklace, male wearing high white collar, white shirt, black bow tie, clean shaven, hair long past ears.
General note
William is son of Henry Pilcher and Frances Pillow Pilcher, Julia is his wife.
Wilson W. Powell [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Young male figure, hair parted on side, wearing dark jacket with black velvet collar, white shirt, dark bow tie.
General note
Sitter is identified as "Father - Wilson W. Powell the first".
Unidentified Male Gilder Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, front view, bearded, wearing black bow tie, white shirt, black jacket, hair parted on side.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing black jacket and vest, black bow-tie, white collar, pocket chain on vest, hair slicked back, sideburns, clean-shaven, 1/2 length.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, front view, seated wearing white dress, her left arm resting on armrest, holding object in her right hand.
Unidentified Male [Gaudin, Alexis]
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing black jacket with white shirt and black vest, white collar (up) and black bow-tie, hair parted on side, left hand holding cane or walking stick.
Mary E. Comstock and Peter Comstock
General note
Young boy and girl standing, front view, full length, boy wearing white pants and black shirt with buttons down front, white collar, dark bow tie, hair parted on side, hands on hips, black boots, young girl wearing dark dress with ruffles, white cuffs and
Mary Palmer (Mrs. Abraham Browning)
General note
Young girl seated next to column, left arm resting on column, ribbons on sleeve of dress, hair parted in middle.
William E. Hitchcock
General note
Male figure, front view, clean-shaven, wearing white collar, white shirt, wide flowing white bow tie.
Unidentified Judson Family Member or Friend
Unidentified Female
Unidentified Female and Unidentified Male [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Female figure seated on left holding knitting needles and needlework on lap, bag with yarn hanging on her left arm, wearing dark cape, white collar, brooch, dark dress, male figure seated to her left wearing black jacket, white shirt, dark vest, bow tie,
Unidentified Infant (post-mortem) [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Infant lying on white pillow.
2 Unidentified Females [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Two female figure seated, female on viewer's left wearing dark dress with scalloped white lace collar, female on right wearing same, appears to be pregnant, also wearing black lace gloves, brooch, hair parted in middle.
Unidentified Male [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Male figure seated holding walking stick/cane on lap, wearing black jacket, white shirt, black bow tie, hair parted on side.
Unidentified Female [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Female figure wearing dark dress with black ribbon at neck, brooch, white lace collar, hair parted in middle, bun in back, earrings, 1/4 profile view.
Unidentified Female [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Female figure wearing white bonnet, dark dress, brooch.
Mrs. Thomas Soden Henry (Emile Aglae Cox)
General note
3/4-length portrait of female figure, front view, seated with right arm resting on table, wearing brooch, earrings and rings.
Joseph Henry Edgerly, 1849/10/30
General note
Male figure, front view, clean-shaven, wearing white shirt and dark bow tie.
General note
Case is in Amanda Edgerly.
Thomas Edgerly
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing white shirt, bow tie, and beard under chin.
General note
Sitter landing in New York from England on April 15th, 1821.
Unidentified Male Gilder Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, front view, bearded, moustache, wearing black jacket with dark vest, black bow tie, white shirt and high white collar.
Dr. Nathan Sturgis Jarvis or Unidentified Male Jarvis Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, front view, clean shaven, wearing military uniform, arms crossed in front of waist.
Unidentified Male Cobbler, 1850/00/00 ca.
General note
Male figure seated profile, wearing black vest with white shirt, sleeves rolled up past elbow, hat, plaid neckerchief, hammer in his left hand, half leather apron, head turned towards camera, holding what appears to be a boot between knees.
Abby Pinney Smith [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure, seated, front view, hair parted in middle, white collar and cuffs, brooch, dark dress.
Thomas Smith
General note
Male figure, head turned slightly to right, clean shaven, 3/4 length, high white collar, black bow tie, left hand on table, seated, right hand on lap.
Martha E. Knox and Child (Unidentified Knox Family Member or Friend)
General note
Female figure seated wearing white collar with brooch, hair parted in middle, front view, her right arm across waist, left arm around child seated to her left; Young girl wearing dark dress with necklace, head slightly tilted, arms at waist.
Unidentified Male and Unidentified Female
General note
Male figure seated on left, female figure seated on right wearing brooch, hair parted in middle.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure seated, front view, with her right arm on armrest, wearing black dress with thin white collar and cuffs, brooch, necklace, hair in tight curls on side of head hanging down to shoulder.
Unidentified Young Female
General note
Young girls seated wearing plaid off the shoulder dress, her right hand resting on lap, front view, 3/4 length.
Unidentified Female and Unidentified Young Female
General note
Female figure seated wearing white bonnet with white lace ties, dark dress, ring, brooch, hands on lap, her left hand pointer finger held by young girl standing to her left, young girl wearing checked dress, her left hand around her waist, hair in curls a
2 Unidentified Females
General note
2 Female figures seated, female on left wearing patterned dress with white collar, brooch, hair parted in middle, holding what appears to be a book or purse with her right hand on lap, female on right wearing plaid dress with white collar and brooch, hand
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, front view, seated with hands holding stomach, wearing dark dress with white collar and brooch, hair in white bonnet with small ties at neck, necklace, wrinkles on face.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, front view, vignette, white background, wearing floral patterned blouse with white collar, white snood, light colored bow at neck, buttons down front, 1/4 length.
Unidentified Young Female (Post-mortem)
General note
Young child laying on white pillow, wearing checked off the shoulder dress, partially covered by blanket, eyes closed.
2 Unidentified Females
General note
2 seated female figures, female on left wearing dark dress with patterned bow at neck, what appears to be a handkerchief in her lap, hair parted in middle and sculpted over ears, female on left arm in arm with female on right, wearing black dress with whi
James Raymond
General note
Young male figure wearing black jacket and vest, white shirt, black bow-tie, white collar (down), hair parted on side, 1/2 length.
Martha Lyon Zabriskie
General note
Young girl seated, full length, hands on lap, wearing white collar and cuffs, blouse buttoned up front with piping on edges.
General note
Sitter is mother of George A. Zabriskie.
2 Unidentified Young Female Webb Family Members or Friends with Dog
General note
Two young girls seated on couch with black dog, older girl is sitting straight up, wearing plaid dress, hair shoulder-length in corkscrew curls, younger girl is leaning on older girl, wearing light colored dress, hair shoulder-length in corkscrew curls, l
2 Unidentified Young Female Webb Family Members or Friends [Cathan], [1843-1850]
General note
Young girl seated holding purse, wearing white off-the-shoulder dress with blue ribbon at sleeve, white socks, black shoes, hair parted in middle with curls to shoulder, young girl standing with right hand touching purse, wearing dark off-the-shoulder sho
Unidentified Male Webb Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, turned 1/4 to his right, wearing tree patterned vest, dark jacket and bow tie, white shirt, hair parted on side.
Unidentified Male Webb Family Member or Friend [Cathan], [1843-1850]
General note
Male figure, front view, hair parted on side, wearing gray vest, black jacket and bow tie, white shirt and high white collar.
Unidentified Male Webb Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure wearing scarf at neck, black vest with one button undone, black jacket, hair parted on side, white collar and shirt.
Unidentified Male Webb Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure wearing black foulard and jacket, white shirt with high white collar, black silk vest, full front view.
Unidentified Female Webb Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure seated front view, wearing ribbon and brooch at neck, white lace collar, black dress, hair parted in middle.
Unidentified Female Webb Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure seated, wearing earrings, decorative material at neck, white collar, vertically striped dress, hair parted in middle.
Alexander McWhorter
General note
Male figure wearing eyeglasses, clean shaven, high white collar, black cravat, front view, hair down back of head over ears.
General note
Tag inscribed "#12." attached.
Dr. Nathan Sturgis Jarvis or Unidentified Male Jarvis Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure wearing eyeglasses, clean shaven, wearing military uniform, holding sword in right hand, sword facing to floor, seated, right elbows on table.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing striped dark dress with floral bow-tie, white lace collar, hair in curls and pulled back, hands on lap, 1/2 length, seated.
2 Unidentified Females
General note
2 Female figure, front view, seated, female on left holding handkerchief in her right hand on lap, her left arm around other female, both wearing dark dresses with brooches and white bows at collar, hair parted in middle, white cuffs.
Mrs. Mortimer Turner (Helen Davidson) and Unidentified Young Female Pintard Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure and child in her lap, front view, seated, adult wearing dark dress without collar, child wearing dress that ends just below knee length.
General note
Turner is daughter of Eliza Pintard and Dr. Richardson Davidon, stating also: "This picture was injured during the Civil War."
Jane Stevenson MacLaren
General note
Female figure, seated with left elbow leaning on table, white collar, brooch, hairnet, fringes on black dress.
General note
Card catalog states that sitter is wife of Rev. Donald MacLaren.
Sarah Brinkerhoff
General note
3/4 length portrait of a seated female wearing white collar and earring in left ear, as well as a ruffled-looking dress and possible holding a handkerchief.
Aaron Betts Belknap
General note
Portrait of male figure (bust) in white shirt, solid foulard, hair over ears and parted on side.
Mrs. Aaron Betts Belknap [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
Portrait of female figure (bust) with hair in curls on sides of head, white blouse and plaid scarf.
Charles T. Brigden and John M. Pace
General note
Two male figures, 3/4-length; Brigden is young boy standing on right; Pace is seated on left.
George Brigden, John Brigden, and Benjamin Brigden [Painted Post], 1850/00/00
General note
Three young boys, 3/4-length, two standing and one seated.
General note
Note at rear of frame states date and location of photographer's studio.
William Cullen Bryant
General note
Male figure, profile view, wearing white collar and shirt, black tie, dark coat, sideburns.
Mrs. S. H. Whitlock and Willie Whitlock [Beckers & Piard]
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing black dress, hair parted in middle, holding infant dressed in white dress, shawl and hat.
Abram Stevens Hewitt
General note
Male figure, seated wearing white shirt, black bow tie, checked vest, beard.
Unidentified Male Constant Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure with curly hair and beard on sides of face and under chin, wearing dark colored tie and white shirt.
Unidentified Infant
General note
Infant (female?), front view, wearing white gown, partially off the shoulder, bow at shoulder, left hand holding arm of chair.
Testimonial Presented to John B. Newman, 1853/01/09 ca.
General note
Verso of image is inscription: "This testimonial is presented to John B. Newman, M.D.L.L.W. by unanimous vote of the Trustees of Harrodsburg Female College to express great regret at his departure and high regard for his ability and distinguished service
Eliza H. Scott
General note
Young girl, front view, 1/4 length, curly bangs, light colored dress, head slightly tilted.
Unidentified Female and Unidentified Young Female
General note
Female figure seated wearing dark dress with brooch, white cuffs and collar, bow at collar, hair short to ears, holding young girl on lap, girl wearing red dress with boots and white socks, hair parted in middle to neck, hands clasped at chest.
Unidentified Male Harper Family Member [Thompson, Josiah W.], [ca1851-ca1860]
General note
Male figure, front view, right arm leaning on table, beard under chin, sideburns, chain in jacket.
Unidentified Young Male and Female Bailey Family Members or Friends
General note
3/4-length double portrait of young standing male and young seated female holding hands.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, seated with his right arm resting on book on table, wearing black jacket, light colored vest, black neckerchief, white cuffs and high white collar, hair parted on side and long to ears, legs crossed, light colored corduroy-like pa
John Smith Tooper
General note
Male figure, bearded, front view, wearing high white collar, white shirt, bow tie, white vest, sculpted hairstyle.
General note
Accompanying note states that sitter is son of Peter and Ellen Tooper.
Alfred Perego
General note
Male figure, front view, white skirt, black bow tie, clean-shaven, cross on chain in vest.
General note
Note in case states that sitter is brother of Joseph Perego.
Olin S. Fleet [Plumbe, John, Jr., 1809-1857]
General note
Male figure, bearded, wearing white shirt and bow tie with high white collar.
General note
Sitter is grandfather of Lathrop C. Harper and husband of Margaret M. Harper, who is the daughter of Samuel B. Harper.
Isabella Cooper Pilcher [Weston]
General note
Female figure, seated with right elbow resting on book on table, fingers of right hand touching hair, which is in curls on sides of head, wearing plaid dress.
General note
Sitter is third daughter of Henry and Frances (Pillow) Pilcher.
Mrs. William Polk [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure, seated, front view, hair parted in middle, wearing white collar and cuffs, dress buttoned up front, hands on lap.
Unidentified Female DeGroot Family Member or Friend and 3 Unidentified Young Female DeGroot Family Members or Friends
General note
L-R: Young Girl seated with hands on lap, wearing blue short-sleeved dress with white stockings and black shoes with bows at ankles, bracelet on right arm, hair in braids; Adult female figure with her right arm around seated girl, wearing dark dress with
George Arculanius [Plumbe, John, Jr., 1809-1857], ca1856/00/00 (?)
General note
Male figure, front view, clean-shaven, wearing white collar, dark foulard, double breasted vest with buttons down front.
General note
Sitter is brother of Christina G. Arcularius (Mrs. Samuel B. Harper).
John Smith Tooper [Insley, Henry E.], [ca1844-ca1860]
General note
Male figure, front view, bearded, wearing gloves, hat, double breasted coat, kerchief, black muffler, tall black hat.
Christina Arcularius Harper [Thompson, Josiah W.], [ca1851-ca1860]
General note
6 month old infant wearing white gown with pink bows at shoulders, hands clasped off to sitters right.
General note
Sitter is "oldest sister of L.C. Harper" and "daughter of J.P. Harper".
Mary A. Sackett (Mrs. Bradford)
General note
Female figure seated with right hand on table, 3/4-profile, wearing earrings and long chain dangling down front of dark dress.
General note
Sitter is daughter of Wm. H. Sackett and Amanda Harper Sackett, who is the daughter of Samuel B. Harper.
Harrison Blake II [White, E.]
General note
Portrait of male figure, 3/4 length with high white collar, solid foulard, hair on sides of face and over ears
General note
Inside case: Made by William Shew, corner of Court & Howard Sts. Boston; Husband of Susan C. Blake of New Brunswick, NJ.
Herman Blenerhasset
General note
Daguerreotype of a painting--male figure (bust) in frame wearing white scarf, half front profile.
General note
Inside beneath plate: "This is a portrait of Herman Blenerhasset of Burr fame, a piece from a miniature many years now since lost OCT 1885/ J.E. Stillwell MD/ 150 E 21st NY"
Elizabeth Van Schoonhoven Crosby (Mrs. Edward Nicoll Crosby)
General note
Portrait of a female, front view, wearing earrings, white collar with bow, and striped dress.
General note
Enclosed note states that sitter is mother of Frederic Van Schoonhaven Crosby and grandmother of donor.
Unidentified Female and 2 Young Female Greenwood Family Members or Friends
General note
Three female figures, adult in middle, wearing plaid shawl and white collar, arms around shortest girl who is wearing plaid dress.
Unidentified Female and Young Female Low Family Members or Friends [Williamson, Charles H], [ca1844-1885]
General note
Female figure seated wearing white lace collar, dark blouse, chain, floral patterned skirt, sitter's left hand on lap and right arm around seated young female figure wearing plaid dress with white scalloped collar and hair parted in middle.
Unidentified Female (Barber's Wife)
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing white headpiece, hair in curls to shoulders, wearing dark dress with white lace collar, brooch, necklace, rings, seated with her right hand resting on table, left hand holding small book on lap.
General note
Sitter is identified as "Barber's Wife".
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing tall black top hat, black jacket with large buttons, bow tie, white shirt and high white collar turned down, plaid vest, half-length, clean shaven.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, looking to left of camera, wearing black jacket and vest, black tie, white shirt with high white collar turned up, hair parted in middle, clean-shaven.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure with full beard under chin, hair parted on side and curly, wearing black jacket and vest, white shirt, black bow-tie at neck.
Unidentified Young Female Greenwood Family Member or Friend [Lawrence]
General note
Young girl standing, right elbow leaning on adjacent table, clasped hands, full length, wearing white pantaloons, and plaid jumper with plaid/patterned shirt underneath.
William Whitlock [Beckers & Piard]
General note
Young boy wearing dark colored dress with blue piping, buttons down front, white collar, standing with his right hand leaning on table, front view, full length.
Henry Pilcher [Weston]
General note
Male figure, front view, sideburns, high white collar, black bow tie, white shirt, slightly reclined, left arm resting on table, seated.
Charles W. Troughton and Mrs.Troughton [Thwaite]
General note
Adult female figure seated with child on lap, female wearing white hat, brooch, earrings, bracelet, necklace/chain, rings, white collar and sleeves, black dress, child wearing checked dress with bow at shoulder, ring, white pantaloons.
General note
Sitters are mother and son; Charles is husband of donor.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, 1/4 profile view, curly white hair long to neck, wearing white shirt with black jacket and bow tie, half length.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure wearing polka dot dress, seated, hair parted in middle, white collar and cuffs, arms crossed over stomach, what appears to be a basket of flowers on adjacent table.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, bust, wearing dark dress with black bow at neck, white collar, hair parted in middle, vignette.
Unidentified Male [L.B.B. & Co.], 1840/00/00-ca1842/00/00
General note
Male figure, front view, seated with his right arm resting on table, left hand on lap, wearing striped vest with white shirt, neckerchief, dark jacket, hair long and parted on side, beard under chin.
John Beekman
General note
3/4-length portrait of male figure with white hair, high white collar and scarf-like necktie
General note
2 Copies; Accompanying note enclosed describes sitter's history; Father of Wm. Fenwick Beekman, son of James Beekman; Daguerreotype of miniature, came from Mrs. Secore of White Plains in 1948.
Mrs. John Beekman (Mary Elizabeth Bedlow)
General note
Portrait of female figure (bust) wearing lace bonnet and lace collar
General note
2 Copies; Accompanying note enclosed describes sitter's history; Mother of Wm. Fenwick Beekman; Daguerreotype of miniature, came from Mrs. Secore of White Plains in 1948.
Frances (Pillow) Pilcher [Weston]
General note
Female figure, seated holding book in left hand, wearing fringed shawl around shoulders, white bonnet with sash and bow under chin, left arm resting on table.
General note
Sitter is wife of Henry Pilcher.
George T. Bliss
General note
Full-length portrait of seated, infant male with dress off the shoulder, plaid type midriff, hands on lap, barefooted.
General note
Newspaper below plate.
Maria Abernathy Burr [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
3/4-length portrait of a seated young girl with curls on either side of her head, hands on lap, checked dress, and left elbow on a table.
General note
Enclosed note states that sitter is daughter of Melanthore Burr and Euphemia Cooper Burr; mat is stamped with "ANSON 589 Broadway".
William Cromwell
General note
Male figure (bust) wearing white shirt and collar/neckerchief, black jacket, sideburns.
General note
Sitter is grandfather of donor.
Unidentified Female Low Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure in profile, wearing checked blouse with white neckerchief, hair in bun at back of head.
Unidentified Young Male Low Family Member or Friend
General note
Young boy standing, 3/4 length, wearing black jacket, white collar, hand in pocket, front view.
Maria LaGrange Elmendorf (Van Veghten)
General note
Female figure, front view, half-length, seated with arm resting on table, wearing lace cap and portrait brooch.
Madelene Fortier (1796-?) [Welling], 1850/00/00-1861/00/00
General note
3/4-length female, seated with right elbow on table, wearing bonnet, hair parted in middle, hands folded on lap, brooch at neck.
General note
Sitter is wife of John G. Concklin.
Unidentified Male Gilder Family Member or Friend [Holmes, S. A. (Silas A.), 1819 or 20-1886], [1847-ca1858]
General note
Male figure wearing black jacket (buttoned closed) and bow tie, with white shirt and high white collar, hair parted on side, front view.
Unidentified Male Gilder Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure wearing tall white hat with black band, black jacket and bow tie, dark vest, right elbow on table with book, sideburns.
Horatio Gates Shumway
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing white shirt, black bow tie, clean-shaven.
General note
Sitter is grandfather of donor.
Mrs. Hopkins (Ellen Dunlap) (1857/1858-1939) [Hale]
General note
Female infant seated wearing polka dot dress off-the-shoulder, full length, facing front, ankles crossed.
General note
Sitter is the founder of The New York School of Applied Design For Women.
Jonathan Goldsmith Horton
General note
Male figure, seated, front view, clean-shaven, gray hair, wearing dark jacket, patterned vest, resting left arm on arm of chair.
Unidentified Female Harper Family Member [White, E.]
General note
Female figure, seated, front view, wearing plaid dress, left elbow leaning on table, holding flowers on lap, wearing earrings.
Unidentified Male Harper Family Fireman [Paret]
General note
Male figure, seated with left elbow on table and right hand on right thigh, wearing red shirt, brown bow tie, clean shaven, wedding band on finger.
Sarah Cooper Hewitt [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Infant seated in large chair, front view, full length, right shoe missing, white gown.
Unidentified Young Female Hincken Family Member Holding Doll [Prosch, Miss]
General note
3/4-length portrait of young girl standing next to high chair with left hand holding left hand of doll in high chair, front view, doll wearing pink dress, girl wearing patterned dress with hair in corkscrew curls.
Dr. Nathan Sturgis Jarvis or Unidentified Jarvis Family Member or Friend
Unidentified Female Jarvis Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure wearing white bonnet, black gloves, black coat and dress.
Unidentified Female Jarvis Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure, front view, seated wearing white bonnet, both hands holding book on lap.
Unidentified Young Female
General note
Young girl seated on table beside chair, hands on lap, wearing plaid off the shoulder dress with black trim and buttons, hair in corkscrew curls to shoulder and parted on side.
General note
Another image of this unidentified girl is located in this collection.
Mrs. Charles White Kellogg (D. Comstock) [Gurney, Jeremiah], 1857/02/12
General note
Female figure seated with her right arm resting on table, wearing brooch, white lace collar, dark dress with black lining, white cuffs, hair parted in middle.
Peter Comstock Kellogg [Gurney, Jeremiah], 1853/00/00
General note
Young boy seated with his right arm resting on table, wearing black coat with buttons down front, white collar, light colored bow tie and pants, hair parted on side, looking off to camera's right.
Unidentified Male Feeding Sheep
General note
Male figure in foreground, standing, wearing hat, vest, white shirt, necktie, holding basket, sheep feeding from basket, flock of sheep grazing in meadow, trees in background, outdoor scene.
J.B. Newman Jr.
General note
Young boy seated wearing white pants and black off the shoulder blouse, curly hair, right hand resting on table with blue tablecloth and straw hat, boy is wearing belt.
General note
Attached note states that image is from Kentucky and was taken when the sitter was 15 months old.
Lolly (or Unidentified Young Female)
General note
Plate inscribed "Lolly".
Unidentified
Unidentified Young Female
General note
Young girl seated on table with feet resting on seat of chair, her right hand holding back of chair, ankles crossed, wearing plaid off the shoulder dress with black trim and buttons, hair in corkscrew curls to shoulder.
William Whitlock or Bachi McE. Whitlock (?) [Beckers & Piard]
General note
Young boy seated wearing light colored dress with striped lining, white collar.
George C. Dressel
General note
Male figure, 3/4 length, front view, seated with his left arm resting on table, watch chain on vest, white shirt, bearded, hair parted on side, black jacket and vest.
Unidentified Dog
General note
Dog (Spaniel) seated on chair, full length, front view.
Mrs. H. Von Post (Janie Whitlock) [Root, S.]
General note
Female figure, 1/4 profile, wearing black dress with brooch at neck, hair straight and parted at sides, up in back.
Mr. Volney Barstow and Mrs. Volney Barstow
General note
Male and female figures seated, front view, female has hands clasped on lap, white cuffs and blouse, cameo brooch on blouse, male holding cane in left hand, right arm behind chair, chain in vest, white shirt, bow tie, clean shaven.
General note
Another Daguerreotype copy of this image (reversed and smaller) exists in Cased Images file.
Mr. Volney Barstow and Mrs. Volney Barstow [Keenan], [1853]
General note
Male and female figures seated, front view, female has hands clasped on lap, white cuffs and blouse, cameo brooch on blouse, male holding cane in left hand, right arm behind chair, chain in vest, white shirt, bow tie, clean shaven.
General note
Another Daguerreotype copy of this image (reversed and larger) exists in Cased Images file.
Unidentified Niles Family Member (Member or Friend of Palmer Family)
General note
Male figure, profile, bearded, high white collar, black bow tie, white shirt, hair parted on side.
General note
Card catalog states that sitter worked on NY Tribune, Boston, NY, Philadelphia.
Robert Morris Cox and Charles Morris Cox
General note
Two young boys seated in separate chairs alongside each other, front view, boy on left has blouse buttoned up to collar, white collar.
General note
Sitters are brothers, as well as sons of William Penny Cox.
Unidentified Male Palmer Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, front view, half-length, seated, arms folded in front, bearded, high white collar, black bow tie, white shirt.
Unidentified Male Palmer Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, front view, seated, moustache and goatee, high white collar, polka dot bow tie, holding cane in left hand, right hand in lapel.
Cecilia Pinney [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure, seated, front view, white collar, brooch, hands on lap, hair parted in middle.
Franklin Pierce
General note
Male figure wearing white shirt, high white collar, foulard, dark vest with pocket watch chain, hair parted on side.
General note
Sitter was 14th President of the United States.
Charles Remsen
General note
Young bow standing, front view, full length, left arm on table, wearing white shirt and collar, bow tie, 3/4 length pants, white socks.
General note
Sitter is son of Wm. Remsen Sr. and father of donor.
Col. Henry Rutgers [Knapp, William R.], [1840s-ca1851]
General note
Male figure, head turned to left, white hair, white scarf, clean shaven.
Henry Remsen
General note
Young boy seated with left arm resting on table which is covered in paisley cloth, bow it wearing patterned shirt with white collar.
General note
Sitter is son of William Remsen Sr.
Martha Coleman Richardson
General note
Female figure, seated, right hand and elbow on table, front view.
General note
Sitter is sister of Mrs. David Reese Griffith (Sarah Jane Coleman Richardson)
Mrs. John Rogers Sr. (Sarah Ellen Derby), ca1850/00/00
General note
Female figure, profile to left, hair braided and rolled into bun in back of head, dark blouse, white shirt.
General note
Sitter is mother of sculptor John Rogers.
Robert Remsen
General note
Young boy standing with right elbow resting on table, left hand on hip, wearing white collar and cuffs, bow tie.
General note
Sitter is brother of Charles Remsen and son of Wm. Remsen Sr.
Unidentified Young Male Schuyler Family Member, ca1840s-1850s
General note
Young boy standing holding book in his hands, opened and in front of him, white shirt and bow tie.
Alice Schermerhorn (in christening gown)
General note
Infant in christening gown, face and shoulders showing out of long white gown, resting on white background, eyes wide open.
General note
Sitter is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John P. Schermerhorn.
Louise Schermerhorn [Williams], 1853/00/00 (?)
General note
Young girl, front view, full length, seated in high backed chair, plaid off-the-shoulder dress with bows at shoulders, white socks, black shoes.
General note
Sitter is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John P. Schermerhorn.
Mrs. E. Henry Harriman (Mary Williamson Avirell) [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Young girl standing with left hand on top of chair, off the shoulder dress with pink bows at each shoulder, hair parted in middle.
General note
Sitter is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William H. Avirell and niece of Mrs. John P. Schermerhorn.
Mrs. John P. Schermerhorn (Louise P. Williamson) and Mrs. W. H. Avirell (Mary Shute Williamson)
General note
Two female figures, hair parted in middle, both wearing the same dresses and black chokers with brooch.
Alice Schermerhorn (in christening gown)
General note
Infant, head and arms visible, wearing white christening gown, resting on large pillow.
General note
Sitter is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John P. Schermerhorn.
Augusta Shrine Knapp and Kate Louise Knapp [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure seated wearing bonnet and checked dress with black lines, brooch, holding infant who is wearing white gown with plaid belt.
Amanda Wheeler and Daughter (post-mortem)
General note
Female figure, front view, seated, dressed completely in black except for slight white collar with embroidering showing, deceased infant on her lap, dressed in white with eyes closed.
General note
Sitter is Grandmother of donor.
Frank Squier (or Squire?) Sr. [Shew, Willliam]
General note
Male figure, clean shaven, hair parted on left side, high white collar, black bow tie, white shirt, dark coat.
Harry Smith or Unidentified Young Smith Family Member or Friend
General note
Child seated wearing checked dress, necklace, 3/4-length, front view.
General note
Harry is son of Daniel Smith and Mary Storey.
John Snowden, M.D. [Weston]
General note
Male figure, head turned 3/4 to left, long sideburns, wearing eyeglasses, high white collar, black bow tie, dark coat.
Ina Thursby or Unidentified Young Female Thursby Family Member or Friend [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Young female figure, seated with left elbow on table, kerchief on head, long curls, locket on chain, bracelet, white gloves, horizontally striped blouse, white skirt, pink cloth flowers.
General note
Written on case: "Emma Thursby Collection".
John Barnes Thursby and Emma Thursby [Binsse & Co.], 1848/00/00
General note
Male figure and young girl seated, little girl in high chair, appears to be asleep or in motion, wearing dotted dress, white pantaloons, male wearing white collar, shirt and bow tie, clean shaven, left hand on thigh, hair long to above neck.
General note
Sitters are father and daughter.
Margaret Field Van Nest
General note
Female figure, seated, wearing white bonnet, right elbow on table, hands crossed and placed on lap.
Unidentified Male, ca before 1843
General note
Male figure, front view, head slightly tilted, wearing black jacket and vest, black neckerchief, white shirt and collar, brooch, hair long to neck, seated with his left arm resting on table.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing dark jacket and vest, white shirt, patterned bow-tie/neckerchief, clean-shaven, right arm resting on table, seated, books on table, left hand on lap.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing black jacket and vest, black neckerchief, white upturned collar, clean-shaven, left arm resting on table.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, 1/4 length, wearing black jacket and vest, black bow-tie, white shirt, pin on shirt, hair curly and parted on side, freckles, clean shaven.
Unidentified Male Policeman
General note
Male figure in Police uniform with badge pinned on coat and chained to button, holding police cap in his right hand, seated (?), front view, left hand on lap.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, wrinkled face, wearing black jacket and vest, white shirt with high collar 1/2 turned down, black bow-tie, clean shaven.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing large square brooch, white collar, black dress, holding book on lap, left hand holding right wrist, hair parted in middle and short to ears, seated.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, 1/4 profile, seated with her left arm resting on table, wearing dark dress with pink collar, rings, brooch, hair parted in middle and short to ears.
Unidentified Young Female
General note
Young girl standing with her right hand resting on books on table, wearing checked dress with black overdress, off the shoulder collar, hair short to above neck, white stockings or pantaloons.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, front view, seated with her left arm resting on table, wearing brooch, dark dress with white bow at collar, hair parted in middle.
Lewis T. Brown
General note
Male figure, front view, hair parted on side and long to ears, wearing black jacket with white vest and shirt, neckerchief at collar, seated with his right hand resting on table, left hand on lap.
Unidentified Female and Unidentified Young Female
General note
Female figure seated wearing earrings, brooch, necklace, rings, hair parted in middle, dark dress with black collar, left arm around young girl seated on her lap, girl wearing red off the shoulder dress with necklace, bows on sleeves, hair light colored a
Unidentified Young Female [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Young girl seated wearing checked dress, holding flowers in her right hand, left hand on lap, right wrist resting on back of chair adjacent to table on which she is seated.
Unidentified Young Female [Bogardus, A. (Abraham), 1822-1908], [1846-1887]
General note
Young female figure seated wearing dark dress with black velvet bows and lining, white lace collar, brooch, hair in braided loops, right hand on lap wearing ring, front view.
Unidentified Young Female [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Young girl standing with her left arm leaning on table, wearing pink/red short-sleeved dress with white collar and brooch, hair band.
Unidentified Male and Unidentified Female [Bogardus, A. (Abraham), 1822-1908], [1846-1887]
General note
Male figure seated with hand in coat, wearing black jacket, dark vest, black bow tie, hair parted on side, clean-shaven, black pants, white shirt, necklace, female figure seated wearing white lace collar, brooch, ring, earrings, hair comb, hair parted in
Joseph F. Waller [Binsse, L.B.], ca1848/00/00
General note
Male figure, front view, bearded, wearing high white collar, black bow tie, white shirt.
Euphemia Cooper Burr [Root, S.]
General note
Little girl, front view, with left hand under chin, curls, plaid dress
General note
Enclosed note states that sitter is daughter of Melanthore Burr Sr. and Euphemia Cooper Burr; mat stamped with photographer's name and location.
Sarah Price Ashton
General note
3/4-length portrait, female with full face, dark hair and cap, as well as a lace collar; posed with one hand over the other.
Mrs. Silas Davis Benson
General note
3/4-length portrait of seated of young girl with both hands resting on vase to her right and wearing polka dot dress and hand tinted necklace.
William Clark, Mrs. William Clar, Unidentified Young Female Clark Family Member or Friend and 2 Unidentified Young Clark Family Members or Friends
General note
Five figures, four seated are: two children, one female adult, and one male adult; standing behind is a young female with her left arm resting one the male and her right hand on the shoulder of the female; tinted, front view, 1/2-length.
Phillip B. Grim
General note
Male figure with sideburns and beard under chin, wearing high white hat with black band, bow tie, dark jacket.
General note
Sitter is son of Philip Grim (1766-1821), son of David Grim.
Sarah Cooper Hewitt [Root, S.; Anson, Rufus], 1853/00/00-1857/00/00 (?)
General note
Infant seated in large flowered chair, white gown, shoe on right foot missing, front view, full length.
Rev. Donald MacLaren
General note
Male figure, front view, 3/4-length, seated with left hand resting on table, clean shaven, wearing high white collar, kerchief at neck.
Mrs. James Philip Harper (Florence E. Hyde), 1853/00/00
General note
Female figure, smiling, front view, seated with right elbow on table, wearing white lace collar, brooch, short sleeved wedding dress, black open finger lace gloves, ring.
General note
Label on case states that sitter is wife of L.C. Harper's brother and is seen here in her wedding dress.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing plaid vest with black coat, white shirt, striped tie, hair parted on side, long to ears, bearded with moustache.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, seated with his left hand on lap, wearing white shirt with collar down, black vest, dark jacket and pants, ribbon at neck, clean shaven, hair long to ears.
Unidentified Male Soldier [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing soldier's uniform with cap, coat buttoned, seated with his left arm resting on table, light moustache.
Unidentified Male Naval Cadet
General note
Male figure in uniform of Naval Cadet (black coat with buttons on sleeves and down front), white collar, hair long to ears, arms folded across chest, 1/2 length, front view.
Unidentified Female [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure seated wearing white bonnet with striped ties at neck, white dress, patterned black lace shawl, black lace gloves, hands on lap.
George T. Bliss
General note
Full-length portrait of seated, infant male with dress off the shoulder, plaid type midriff, hands on lap, barefooted.
Caesar, a slave, 1851/00/00
General note
Portrait of an African-American male figure, 3/4-length, front view, holding staff/shovel? in right hand, wearing white collar, dark foulard, checked waistcoat.
General note
Note taped to back of case identifies sitter and sitter's history: "born a slave of Van R. Nicoll, son of William, in 1737 at Bethlehem, N.Y., where he died in 1852, the last slave to die in the North. This daguerreotype was taken in 1851. His 2nd maste
Unidentified Female Low Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure wearing dark dress with buttons up front, white lace jester-style collar, brooch, hair straight, parted in middle, pulled back and covering ears, full front view.
Unidentified Young Low Family Member or Friend [Stanbery]
General note
Child standing? Wearing off the shoulder plaid/striped dress, ring, sitter's right hand on hip.
James Geery
General note
3/4 portrait of male figure, front view, seated, clean shaven, wearing high white collar, white bow tie, vest, positioned with right elbow on adjacent table.
General note
Card catalog states that sitter is great grandfather of Mary Adelaide Morris.
David Reese Griffith [Keely, R.N.]
General note
Male figure, seated with left arm resting on table, front view, wearing white shirt, bow tie, chain in patterned weskit, clean-shaven, handkerchief in pocket, ring?.
General note
Accompanying note states sitter's history: "…brought to American by parents William and Hannah Griffith who settled in upper Schuylkil County, Pennsylvania…David was eldest son, his sisters were Anne and Dianah, younger brother William."
Unidentified Male Halsey Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure wearing black bow tie, white shirt, dark jacket, front view.
Unidentified Young Male Halsey Family Member or Friend
General note
Young boy standing, holding hat in left hand, wearing black jacket with buttons down front, black striped pants, white collar, in front of table.
Young Female Halsey Family Member or Friend
General note
Young girl, 3/4-front view, wearing hair in braided pigtails with bows, pearl necklace, black dress, ring, right arm resting on adjacent table.
Mrs. George Albert Halsey (Josephine Mead) [Jaquith, Nathaniel C.], [1848-1850s]
General note
Female figure, seated with left arm on table, right hand on lap, two books on table, wearing white lace collar, brooch, ring, and black wristbands.
General note
Accompanying note describes sitter's history, including that she is the daughter of Capt. Jonathon Osborn.
Mrs. George Albert Halsey (Josephine Mead) [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure, front view, seated with left arm on table, right hand on lap, wearing white collar, plaid skirt, dark blouse, earrings, brooch and ring, as well as hair band.
General note
Sitter is mother of donor and wife of George Albert Halsey.
Abram Stevens Hewitt, ca1840/00/00 (?)
General note
Male figure, left hand holding book on table, clean shaven, wearing plaid vest with dark tie and jacket.
Unidentified Male James Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing plaid bow tie, white shirt and high collar, clean shaven.
John B. Lamar
General note
Male figure, front view, clean shaven, wearing white shirt and high white collar, bow tie, paisley vest, striped pants.
General note
Newspaper clipping originally accompanying this image indicates that John B. Lamar was a Delegate to the Convention on the Secession Ticket.
Mary Shiells Lequier [Plumbe, John, Jr., 1809-1857]
General note
Female figure, seated with left elbow on table, wearing bonnet, white collar, key dangling on string.
General note
Card catalog states that sitter is wife of Francis T. Lequier.
Mrs. James Lawrence
General note
Female figure, seated, wearing white bonnet, bow under chin, gloved right hand in lap.
General note
Card catalog states that sitter is wife of Capt. James Lawrence U.S.N.
Jenny Lind
General note
Female figure, front view, hair parted in middle, wearing black and white collar on black dress.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure with hands folded and resting on stomach, wearing black jacket, vest and bow tie with white shirt, front view.
General note
Exhibited, Fall, 2000, "Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale in America"
2 Unidentified Male MacMartin Family Members or Friends
General note
Two male figures, front view, male on right is wearing eyeglasses, both wearing high white collars, kerchiefs in breast pockets and same blouses, male on left has sideburns, male on right wearing bow tie.
Mrs. Peter MacMartin (Harriet Lyon) [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
Female figure, seated, left arm on table, wearing white bonnet, white collar, right arm on lap, striped dress, brooch.
Unidentified Male MacMartin Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, front view, clean-shaven, high white collar and white shirt, black bow tie.
Alexander C. McWhorter [Fredericks? Research], [1843-1890]
General note
Young boy front view, seated, light colored coat buttoned up to top, wearing bow tie.
General note
McWhorter-8 inscribed on case.
Hattie Wyman and Hetta Wyman [Howe, G.M.]
General note
Two young girls standing, arms linked, wearing similar dresses, one holding book in her right hand, both with hair parted in middle, 1/2 length, front view.
Mrs. S.H. Whitlock and Bache McEvers Whitlock
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing pink dress with white collar, blue bonnet, holding infant wearing white gown with flowered bonnet.
2 Unidentified Females
General note
Two female figures, female on left seated wearing black off the shoulder dress with black bow at neck and brooch, shawl at arm, hair in curls on sides of head and parted in middle, female on right standing wearing dark v-neck dress with bow at neck and br
Rev. Charles Foote Peake, before 1849/00/00
General note
Male figure, front view, 1/2 length, clean shaven, white shirt and tie, right arm resting on what appears to be a table.
General note
Sitter is brother of Rev. Frederick Foote Peake.
James Raymond [Williamson, Charles H.], [ca1844-1885]
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing white collar and shirt with black tie, black jacket, bearded.
Julia Raymond
General note
Young girl on white background wearing dark dress with white lace collar and lining on short-sleeves, hands on lap, left hand holding hand of female adult out of frame, hair parted in middle with curls.
Mrs. William Cromwell
General note
Female figure seated wearing bonnet with bow at neck, black dress with white scarf/blouse, sitter's right arm resting on book on adjacent table, purse or ? in foreground.
General note
Sitter is grandmother of donor.
Elisabeth Geery Ferry
General note
Female child, front view, wearing white collar, dark blouse and white skirt with pink highlights, hair parted in middle to just below ears.
Unidentified Male Gilder Family Member or Friend [Colton, S.W.]
General note
Male figure (bust) wearing black jacket and bow tie, dark vest, white shirt and high white collar, light hair, pin on shirt, front view.
Unidentified Male Gilder Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, 1/4 profile view, wearing black jacket, white shirt and collar, black bow tie, white vest, bearded.
Unidentified Young Male Gilder Family Member or Friend
General note
Young male wearing black coat and bow tie with white shirt, hair parted on side.
Unidentified Female Gilder Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure (bust), wearing large light colored bonnet with scalloped edge ties in bow at neck.
Unidentified Female Jarvis Family Member or Friend [Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896], [ca1843-1869]
General note
oxidized at edges
Charles W. Kellogg [Gurney, Jeremiah], 1857/02/14
General note
Male figure seated 1/4 profile, wearing beard and moustache, white shirt and collar, black bow tie, black jacket and vest.
Cyrus Cady Comstock
General note
Male figure seated with his right arm resting on adjacent table, left hand on book on lap, wearing black jacket, white collar, black neckerchief, black vest, hair parted on side.
Gertrude Kellogg
General note
Young girl seated wearing striped dress, bows in hair, hair parted in middle, hands holding arms of chair.
Julia Snow Kellogg or Unidentified Young Female Kellogg Family Member or Friend, 1854/10/14
General note
Young girl seated with body facing profile to her left, head facing front, wearing dark skirt and black shirt with lace collar, brooch, hair parted in middle, her left hand on back of chair, right hand on lap.
Allen Comstock [Plumbe, John, Jr., 1809-1857]
General note
Male figure seated next to table with books, arms crossed over stomach, wearing black coat and vest, black bow tie, white shirt, hair parted on side, front view.
Lucy Kellogg and Amos Carter
General note
Male and female figure seated, female figure on left wearing white bonnet, white collar, black dress, hands on stomach (pregnant?), male figure wearing black jacket and vest, black bow tie, white shirt, hair parted on side, clean-shaven.
Lucy Kellogg (Mrs. Amos Carter) [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
Female figure seated with hands on lap, wearing black dress with white collar, brooch, white lace headpiece.
Charles White Kellogg, 1851/00/00
General note
Male figure, front view, with his right arm resting on table, seated, wearing striped bow tie, white shirt, striped pants, black jacket and vest, bearded, hair parted on side, chain on pants.
Charles White Kellogg
General note
Male figure wearing black jacket and vest, black bow tie, white shirt, his left hand resting on stomach, bearded, hair parted on side.
Charles White Kellogg, 1844/01/22
General note
Male figure, bearded, wearing neckerchief, black jacket, white shirt with ruffles, hair long to ears.
General note
Inscription on lining states that sitter was 29 years of age at the time of this photograph.
Fanny Kellogg [Gurney, Jeremiah], 1853/05/00
General note
Young girl seated on table with feet resting on chair, her left hand on back of chair, right hand on lap, wearing dark dress with white tights and black shoes, hair in curls and parted in middle, looking to her upper left of camera, full length.
Gertrude Kellogg [Gurney, Jeremiah], 1853/05/00
General note
Young girl seated with her right arm resting on table, wearing bracelet and rings, dark short sleeved dress with lace trim, lace collar, brooch, bows in hair.
James Dickinson and Cyrus Cady Comstock
General note
Two male figures seated, male on left wearing gray coat with plaid scarf and black bow tie, beard under chin, his right hand over heart, left arm around male on his left who is wearing check pants, patterned vest, black jacket and tie.
Julia Snow Kellogg or Unidentified Young Female Kellogg Family Member or Friend
General note
Young girl seated wearing checked dress with plaid underskirt, her left arm resting on books on table, hair parted in middle, head slightly cocked.
Mrs. Charles White Kellogg (D. Comstock)
General note
Female figure (bust) wearing brooch, dark blouse the collar, hair parted in middle and short to above neck.
Peter C. Kellogg
General note
Young boy seated with hands on lap, wearing black pants and shirt with buttons down front, white collar, freckled face.
George Cabot Ward
General note
Male figure looking off to his right, wearing dark jacket (bust), white shirt and collar, light colored plaid tie, hair parted on side, sideburns and beard under chin.
James Fowler
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing polka dot vest, dark jacket, neckerchief, white shirt and high white collar, hair parted on side, clean shaven, 1/4 length.
General note
Accompanying note states that sitter is brother of Mrs. Clarence Separd (Elizabeth Fowler), ancestor of donor.
Unidentified Male Barber [Helme]
General note
Male figure seated reclined with hands holding back of head, wearing plaid vest, black neckerchief (long and knotted at collar, white shirt with sleeves rolled up, bearded, sideburns, striped pants, table with washbowl and razors on plate adjacent, 1/2 le
Unidentified Young Male Soldier
General note
Young male figure, front view, in uniform, arms folded across chest, buttons down front of coat, hair parted on side, clean shaven, mole on cheek.
General note
Copy of Daguerreotype, West Point student?.
Henrietta Ketchum Raymond
General note
Female figure seated wearing checked/plaid dress, rings, bracelet, white collar, barrette, brooch, hands clasped on lap, table adjacent to sitter.
John Rogers [James & co.], ca1855/00/00
General note
Male figure, bearded, turned slightly to right, white shirt, black bow tie.
General note
Sitter is a sculptor.
Mrs. George Stevens Schermerhorn Jr. (Julia Magdalene Gilbert) and Arthur Frederic Schermerhorn [Anson, Rufus], 1860/00/00
General note
Female figure, seated with infant on her lap, female has hair to back of head behind ears, white collar, black bow tie, infant wearing white gown, right hand of adult holding infant's hands.
General note
Sitters are mother and son.
Grandfather Brown (Unidentified Male Brown Family Member) [Binsse, J.B.]
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing black coat, white shirt and white vest, black tie under folded collar, clean-shaven.
Isaac T. Hopper [Broadbent, S.]
General note
Male figure holding cane or walking stick in his left hand, wearing black coat and vest, white collar, seated with right arm resting on arm of chair, front view.
General note
Accompanying note states that "This is the picture Dora Thayer Arnold ? Had to paint the portraits from."
Samuel Hopper Brown with his Mother (Rachel Hopper Brown) [Williamson, Charles H], [ca1844-1885]
General note
Female figure seated holding infant, female is wearing dark dress with white collar and brooch, hair parted in middle, infant wearing white gown.
Samuel Hopper Brown
General note
Young boy seated holding small book in lap, 1/4 profile, wearing striped pants, black coat, white collar, hair parted on side.
General note
Sitter is son of Samuel and Rachel H. Brown
Sarah Hopper Brown (Mrs. Sarah Powell) [Binsse & Co.]
General note
Young girl seated with small open book on lap, wearing patterned dress, 1/4 profile view, hair loose and shoulder length, parted in middle.
Wilson W. Powell, 1847/00/00
General note
Young freckled boy seated front view, wearing black bow tie, black jacket, white shirt, hair parted on side, striped pants.
General note
Sitter is identified: "12 Years Old Father Wilson W. Powell the first 1847".
Charles Sherwood Stratton (Tom Thumb) [Jacobs, Emil], ca.1848/00/00
General note
Male figure, midget, profile to right, 3/4-length, appears to be standing on chair, pointing with forefinger of left hand, chain on vest, white shirt, black tie.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing black jacket, black vest, black bow at neck, white shirt, clean shaven, right hand at waist level (arm resting on table?).
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, looking off to upper right of camera, wearing dark jacket with lighter colored lining, dark vest, white shirt and collar (turned down), black bow-tie, full beard and moustache, hair parted on side.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure seated with his left elbow on table, head propped up on hand, wearing dark jacket with black vest and pants, black bow-tie, white shirt, watch chain on vest, bearded, front view.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing black jacket and bow-tie, white shirt and white vest, jacket unbuttoned, clean shaven, seated with hands on lap.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure seated in high back chair, wearing black shawl, white bonnet with black ribbon ties at neck, front view. 1/2 length.
Unidentified Young Girl
General note
Young girl standing with her right arm leaning on table, book on table, wearing dark short sleeved dress, high-band, front view.
Unidentified Young Female
General note
Infant seated wearing white lace gown with pink ribbons at shoulders, her left hand on table, necklace.
Unidentified Young Female
General note
Young girl wearing dark off the shoulder dress with white lining, hands clasped at waist.
Unidentified Young Female
General note
Young girl (?) standing with hands resting on stack of photographs on table, wearing off the shoulder plaid dress with white slip and socks, hair short to ears.
Unidentified Young Male and Unidentified Young Female
General note
Young boy and girl standing, boy wearing black jacket with white vest/shirt and collar, dark pants, front view, his left arm on left shoulder of girl, girl wearing light colored short sleeved off the shoulder dress, hands at side, eyes wide open.
Unidentified Young Male
General note
Young boy (?) standing wearing dark pants and shirt, white lace collar, his right hand leaning on table, hair in curl above forehead.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing rings, brooch, white bow at collar, dark dress, seated with her left arm resting on table, white cuffs, hair pulled up and parted in middle, 1/2 length.
Unidentified Young Female
General note
Female figure seated wearing dark dress with large buttons down front, patterned neckerchief with brooch, earrings, hair curly and parted in middle, seated with her left elbow resting on book on table, head resting on left hand, rings, belt with large rec
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing off the shoulder dress with vertical stripes and pattern, belt at waist, hair pulled back and parted in middle, shawl over arm, flowers in hair.
Phoebus, 1849/00/00 ca.
General note
Young boy seated in chair wearing checked pants and dark embroidered coat with buttons down front, white collar, hands on lap, front view, hair parted on side.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing black jacket and white vest with white shirt, brooch, bolero necklace, 1/2 length.
Unidentified Male and Female [Bogardus, A. (Abraham), 1822-1908], [1846-1887]
General note
Male and female figure seated, male on viewer's left wearing black bow tie and coat, black vest, white shirt and turned down collar, hair parted on side and wavy, his left arm around female figure, right hand on lap, female figure seated wearing striped d
John Stoneacre Ellis, ca1850/00/00
General note
Male figure, front view, seated, holding hat in right hand, left hand on lap, clean-shaven, wearing white collar, foulard and weskit.
General note
Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
Unidentified Young Male Hincken Family Member or Friend
General note
3/4-length portrait of seated child with hands clasped on lap, front view, full length, wearing white collar.
John Beekman
General note
3/4-length portrait of male figure with white hair, high white collar and scarf-like necktie
General note
2 Copies; Accompanying note enclosed describes sitter's history; Father of Wm. Fenwick Beekman, son of James Beekman; Daguerreotype of miniature, came from Mrs. Secore of White Plains in 1948.
Mrs. John Beekman (Mary Elizabeth Bedlow)
General note
Portrait of female figure (bust) wearing lace bonnet and lace collar
General note
2 Copies; Accompanying note enclosed in Mrs. John Beekman (A) describes sitter's history; Mother of Wm. Fenwick Beekman; Daguerreotype of miniature, came from Mrs. Secore of White Plains in 1948.
Robert Lenox Belknap
General note
3/4-length portrait of seated boy (about 5 years old) with quilted jacket; extensive hand coloring
Zebia Blake and Grenfill Blake
General note
3/4-length double portrait of seated young female (about 7 years old) and young male (about 10 years old); girl is wearing polka dot skirt and piped blouse, boy has high collared coat with brass colored buttons.
General note
Children of Harrison and Susan Brett Cary Blake.
Mrs. Herman Blenerhasset
General note
Daguerreotype of a painting--female figure (bust) with bouffant hair, angular face, earring, rope-type necklace, white blouse, dark jacket and elongated neck.
General note
Inscription in case: "THIS IS A PORTRAIT OF MRS HERMAN BLENNERHASSET, OF BURR FAME. COPIED FROM AN ORIGINAL MINIATURE NOW LOST MANY YEARS SINCE. OCT 1885"
George T. Bliss and Catherine Anita Bliss
General note
Double portrait of 2 seated children (male & female); female in high chair, wearing double strand necklace, white dress with pink sash around waist; male sitting in arm chair wearing plaid blouse with white collar, white skirt or slip and striped socks.
General William J. Bolton
General note
Portrait, 3/4-length, of middle aged male with white collar, solid color foulard, sideburns--facing to his left.
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte [Marks]
General note
Portrait, 3/4-length, of male in West Point cadet's uniform, seated half front view, with goatee moustache.
General note
MARKS stamped on bottom of mat; Sitter was grandson of Jerome Bonaparte who was Emperor Napoleon's brother; enclosed notes identify sitter and date of death (09/03-04/1893), as well as year of West Point graduation (1852).
John Romeyn Brodhead [Gurney, Jeremiah], 1846/10/01
General note
3/4-length portrait of male, standing, wearing top hat, decorated vest, handkerchief in breast pocket, white shirt, full beard, and left hand resting on chair.
General note
Note enclosed states "Found by E.B.C. on floor of old riser in rubbish." (E.B.C. may be Edmund Brainhall Child).
Mrs. Joshua Brooks (Martha Moore) [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
Portrait of a female with white bonnet, white scarf, and eyeglasses.
General note
Card catalogue states that an accompanying note states: "Daguerreotypes of Mr. & Mrs. Joshua Brookes and burnoose of Ms. Ray Boynton. Gift of Miss Mary Pomeray Robinson, Shermans Square Hotel, Broadway & 70th St., NYC. Donor is great grand daughter of J
Sophia Brooks [Wellman, W. A.], ca1855/00/00
General note
Portrait of a female, 3/4-length, with white lace collar, hair parted in middle and long tresses on side.
General note
Daughter of Joshua and Martha Moore Brookes.
W. C. Bryant
General note
1/2-length portrait of male figure, clean shaven with white collar, large black foulard, left arm on table; probably taken at 30 to 40 years of age.
General note
Note accompanying image states sitter's identity and age.
Unidentified Female Brinkerhoff-McNulty Family Member or Friend (Jackson?)
General note
3/4-length portrait of seated female with long chain of beads attached to her dark dress with white collar, wearing rings on right ring and pinky fingers.
Unidentified Young Female Brinkerhoff-McNulty Family Member or Friend
General note
3/4 length portrait of a seated young girl wearing polka dot dress, white collar, long curls, with left hand resting on table with straw hat.
Unidentified Male Brinkerhoff-McNulty Family Member or Friend
General note
Portrait of a male figure (bust) wearing white tie and collar, with long side burns.
Miss Copeland [Plumbe, John, Jr., 1809-1857]
General note
Portrait of a female (bust) with curls down right side of face and long necklace, wearing dark blouse.
General note
Photographer's name stamped onto mat.
Theo Rogers, 1852/00/00
General note
3/4 length portrait of male figure wearing white shirt, dark colored foulard, white handkerchief in breast pocket, and neckerchief.
General note
Recto verso: "THEO ROGERS 1852".
Charles Abernathy Burr
General note
Portrait of a male figure, front view, 3/4-length, wearing tall hat with wide brim, seated, with black neckerchief and dark clothes.
General note
Interior verso: lock of hair, braided; left image may be missing; note enclosed states that sitter is the son of Melanthore Burr and Euphemia Cooper Burr.
George Mourve Burr
General note
Portrait of a young man with white collar and shirt and black bow tie.
General note
Enclosed note states that sitter is son of Melanthore Burr and Euphemia Cooper Burr, and that he died as a young adult.
Maria Abernathy Burr and Euphemia Cooper Burr or 2 Unidentified Young Female Burr Family Members or Friends
General note
3/4-length portrait of two littler girls, one sitting and one standing, front view, full length, both wearing plaid dresses of different patterns.
General note
Enclosed note states most likely identity of sitters and their history.
Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Smith (Maria Abernathy Burr)
General note
Double portrait, male and female standing front view, male is wearing bow tie, black vest and dark jacket and is clean-shaven, female has short hair parted in middle and is wearing polka dot blouse with dark neckerchief and brooch.
General note
Enclosed note states identity and history of sitters.
Silhouette of Unidentified Male Cooper Family Member or Friend
General note
Profile silhouette of male figure.
General note
This images accompanies another silhouette in this family group of a female Cooper Family member or friend made by Kimball and Cooper between 1858 and 1860.
Unidentified Female Cooper Family Member or Friend
General note
3/4-length portrait of female figure, seated, wearing striped dress and dark shawl, lace collar and bow at neck, holding small purse around wrist.
Unidentified Male Cooper Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, seated, 1/4-profile with hand on lap, wearing dark jacket with white cuffs and white neckerchief or shirt.
Unidentified Male Cooper Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, half profile, wearing high white collar, dark bow tie, white shirt, light moustache with short hair.
Unidentified Male Cooper Family Member or Friend
General note
3/4-length portrait of male figure, seated with right arm resting on table, front view, wearing white shirt and dark foulard, clean-shaven.
Unidentified Male Cooper Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, bust, front view, clean-shaven, wearing dark coat, white shirt and weskit, as well as dark colored foulard.
Frances Pilcher
General note
3/4-length portrait of a female with her right arm resting on a table, hair parted in middle, tight, long corkscrew curls on side of head, wearing elaborately embroidered dress with lace collar and white cuffs.
General note
Sitter is second daughter of Henry and Frances (Pillas) Pilcher, and was born in England.
William Pilcher
General note
Portrait of male, 3/4-length, with right arm resting on table with book, clean-shaven wearing tall hat and double breasted coat.
General note
Sitter was born in Dover, England and is son of Henry and Frances Pilcher.
Esther Crane and her son Alexander Crane
General note
Double portrait of seated figures; male with moustache, wearing white shirt and collar, dark colored bow tie, watch chain off vest, studs in shirt; and one female wearing white bonnet, white collar, and open-finger lace gloves.
General note
Card catalog states that sitters are mother and son.
Mary Freedland
General note
Female figure, seated with cane in right hand, wearing white collar and dark dress with lace trim and brooch.
General note
Sitter is mother of Mrs. Frank W. Crane and wife of Matthew Dunn.
Unidentified Male Crane Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure seated in high back chair, front view, wearing high white collar and dark foulard, clean-shaven with gray hair.
Unidentified Male Crane Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure seated with left elbow leaning on table, wearing white shirt and weskit, black bow tie, clean-shaven with hair parted on side.
Unidentified Female Crane Family Member or Friend
General note
3/4-length portrait of female figure seated wearing white blouse, earrings, ring and brooch.
Unidentified Female Crane Family Member or Friend [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
3/4-length portrait of female figure, seated, wearing white collar and brooch, with left elbow resting on table.
Isaac Michael Dyckman
General note
Male figure (bust), front view, wearing white weskit with ribbon, black foulard, white collar, clean shaven, chain in vest, turned slightly to sitter's right.
Capt. Charles Hawley Brantingham or Francis Edward Brantingham
General note
Full-length portrait of boy standing and holding hat in right hand, wearing white shirt and trousers, open dark jacket with light trim, and thick belt, hair is curls long to shoulder.
General note
Both possible sitters are sons of Martha C. Hawley Brantingham.
Elizabeth King Windle ("Libby")
General note
Portrait of female wearing white bonnet, brooch at collar, long chain around neck, rings and dark dress with shawl.
General note
Sitter ("Elizabeth King Windle "Libby") is daughter of Mrs. Jane de Forest Hawley Windle.
Unidentified Female De Groot Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing white bonnet with long sash under chin, striped dress, hands on lap, wearing necklace or brooch and matching bracelet.
Capt. Charles Hawley Brantingham or Francis Edward Brantingham
General note
3/4-length boy wearing plaid dress with long curls to shoulders, legs not visible.
General note
Both possible sitters are sons of Martha C. Hawley Brantingham.
Unidentified Young Male Durand/Delano Family Member or Friend
General note
Young boy, front view, 3/4-view, with left hand resting on chair?, dark coat with buttons down front, white collar.
Unidentified Male Durand/Delano Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, front view, clean-shaven, wearing white shirt.
Captain Thomas Delano
General note
3/4-length portrait of male figure, seated with left arm resting on table and right hand on lap, wearing white shirt, bow tie, clean-shaven.
General note
Sitter is father of Thomas Edwin Delano and grandfather of Mortimer Delano.
Mrs. Calvin W. Thomas
General note
Female figure, seated, front view, with right arm resting on table with 3 books; wearing print dress and paisley shawl with hair up and parted in middle.
General note
Sitter is daughter of George Keck and wife of Calvin W. Thomas; Image is accompanied by obituary clipping from newspaper.
Aaron D. Crane
General note
Male figure, clean-shaven, wearing white shirt, bow tie, checked weskit, seated front view with left arm around table that had a tall (400 Day?) clock standing on it.
General note
Note in case states that sitter is the "Maker of the 400 day clock in the library" and that "Crane was Mr. Eames' mother's eldest brother".
Abigail Harrison Crane and Bethuel Crane
General note
Two daguerreotypes: Male figure on right seated with left arm resting on table, right hand holding eyeglasses on lap, clean-shaven, wearing white collar; Female on left, seated with right hand holding eyeglasses in her lap, left arm resting on table, wear
General note
Note in case states that sitters are parents of Phoebe Harriet Crane who married Nelson Eames (father of Wilberforce Eames).
Ann Wade and Unidentified Young Eames Family Member or Friend
General note
Double portrait of female figure, seated with child on her lap, front view, right arm around child.
General note
Note in case reads, "My mother's Aunt Ann Wade, (I believe) whose letter of consolation Sept 18, 1854, is with my Crane papers."
Jonas Smith Crane
General note
Male figure, front view, bearded, with left arm on table, right hand on hip, wearing ring, white shirt and bow tie.
General note
Note in case reads, "My uncle Jonas Smith Crane".
Unidentified Young Female Eames Family Member or Friend
General note
3/4-length portrait of young girl, front view, seated, wearing checked dress, long curls, hands on lap, bracelet on wrist, book on table to her left.
Dr. Samuel Carp Ellis
General note
Male figure, front view, half-length, clean shaven, dressed completely in black with hands on lap and hair long to shoulders.
General note
Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
Julia Livingston Waterbury (Mrs. John S. Ellis) [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
Young girl, seated, front view, with left arm on table, right hand on lap, wearing plaid dress with white lace collar and hair parted in middle.
General note
Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
Darius Ferry
General note
3/4-length portrait of boy standing, leaning on paisley-cloth covered table, hat on table, column in background, wearing white collar, dark jacket with buttons down front, white cuffs.
General note
Sitter is father of Mary Adelaide Morris.
Mary Blair and Child Geery [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Full-length portrait of female figure and child at her left; woman wearing white collar and brooch, dress buttoned up the front, her left arm around the child, right arm on her lap.
Hannah Goldsmith (Mrs. Charles Preston) (Mrs. Charles S. Williams)
General note
3/4-length portrait of female figure, seated with left elbow on table and right hand on lap, hair parted in the middle, wearing rings and brooch, holding handbag.
Pauline Goodheim [Anson, Rufus], 1855/00/00
General note
Little girl, front view, standing with right hand on table, two books on table, curls, wearing gloves, white dress and petticoat.
David Reese Griffith [Allen, A.M. (Amos M.), 1823-1907], [ca1845-1870s]
General note
3/4-length portrait of male figure, seated, wearing white shirt, black bow tie, chain in vest, right elbow resting on table, ring, slight facial hair, handkerchief in pocket, facing off to sitter's upper right.
General note
Sitter is father of donor.
Mrs. David Reese Griffith (Sara Jane Coleman)
General note
Female figure, seated, 3/4-length, front view, with right elbow on table, hair parted in middle, left hand on lap, wearing black dress, ring.
General note
Sitter is mother of donor.
James Gallagher Jr.
General note
3/4-length portrait of young boy, seated with hands on arms of chair, wearing white shirt, velvety pants, white socks, hair in shoulder-length curls.
James William Gowdey [Welling], 1853/00/00
General note
3/4-length male figure, seated, front view, with right hand on table, left hand on lap, clean-shaven, kerchief in coat pocket.
General note
Sitter is "a son of the American Revolution" whose "great grandfather was with General George Washington at the Battle of Fort Lee" and is the father of the donor.
James William Gowdey
General note
Male figure, right elbow on table, clean-shaven, white shirt, plaid vest, black bow tie and jacket, long wavy hair to below ears.
General note
Sitter is "a son of the American Revolution" whose "great grandfather was with General George Washington at the Battle of Fort Lee" and is the father of the donor.
Mrs. James Gallagher and James Gallagher Jr.
General note
Double portrait of mother holding infant child on her lap; adult wearing dark colored dress with brooch at throat, rings and open finger gloves; infant wearing white dress with hands on lap.
General note
James Jr. later because the husband of the donor and was a Representative Senator and chairman of the State Board of Charities of the State of Connecticut.
Unidentified Young Female Greenwood Family Member or Friend [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Young girl, seated front view, full length, with left hand on table and right hand on lap, wearing necklace, yellow checked dress, bracelets and pink slippers with white stockings.
Isaac John Greenwood and Mary Greenwood
General note
Double portrait, male leaning over female; male wearing white collar and yellow foulard, female wearing large bonnet; male holding book?
Mary Louise Greenwood (1828?-1862)
General note
Female figure, standing, front view, hair parted in middle, wearing cape, white lace collar, left hand resting on table.
Mrs. Isaac John Greenwood II (Mary Agnes Rudd)
General note
3/4-length young girl, seated, front view, hands on lap, wearing striped dress.
General note
Sitter is daughter of Joseph Rudd of NY and wife of Isaac John Greenwood II.
George H. Morris
General note
Infant, full length, hair parted in middle, wearing plaid dress with short sleeves and white slip.
General note
Card catalogue states that sitter is grandson of George Hall; originally labeled as "#20".
Colonel George B. Hall, 1849/07/00
General note
Male figure, head turned slightly to his right, goatee, in uniform of U.S. Army officer, cap on table, left hand in opening of coat.
General note
Card catalogue states that writing on inside of case read :"July-1849, 8 O'clock in the evening"; originally labeled as "#3".
Mary Ferry Hall [Knapp, William R.], [1840s-ca1851]
General note
Female figure, seated, wearing bonnet with sash under chin, flowers in bonnet, gloves, long gold chain.
General note
Original label in case identifies image as #19.
George Albert Halsey, before 1850/09/00
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing white shirt, black bow tie, weskit with top button hole open.
General note
Accompanying note describes sitter's history, including that he was the son of Gordon Halsey and Eliza Osborn who was daughter of Capt. Jonathon Osborn; this Daguerreotype was given by sitter to his fiancée, Josephine Mead, before their marriage in 1850;
Mrs. Abram Stevens Hewitt (Sarah Amelia Cooper) [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure, seated, wearing horizontally striped dress, lace shawl, left arm on table, brooch.
Mrs. Abram Stevens Hewitt (Sarah Amelia Cooper)
General note
Female figure, front view, long curls at sides of head, hair parted in middle, looking off to sitter's upper right.
Sarah Cooper Hewitt [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Young girl, left arm behind her, wearing white dress, standing in front of landscape background.
Brother of George B. Dieter or Unidentified Hincken Family Member or Friend
General note
3/4-length portrait of male figure, seated with right arm on table, clean shaven, wearing chain in vest, white shirt, black bow tie.
General note
Card catalogue states that note originally found in case reads "Probably brother of George Dieter".
George B. Dieter
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing white shirt, high white collar, black bow tie, clean shaven.
General note
The obituary notice that accompanies this image was originally pinned to the velvet lining.
George Dieter Jr. ( ) [Williamson Brothers]
General note
Post-mortem portrait of infant, laying on white cover and head resting on large white pillow, wearing white off-the shoulder dress.
General note
Sitter is son of George Dieter and Julia (Malbone) Dieter.
Mrs. Edward Boyd Hincken (Helen Suydam Pyle) and Unidentified Young Female Hincken Family Member or Friend [Williamson, Charles H.], [ca1844-1885]
General note
Double portrait, female figure seated holding left hand on hand of young girl, girl is wearing purple dress, female wearing glove and bonnet with striped sash.
Jacob Lindley Pyle [Marshall & Porter]
General note
3/4-length portrait of seated male figure, left elbow on table, landscape backdrop, right arm on lap, wearing white shirt and black bow tie, clean-shaven.
Jacob Lindley Pyle
General note
Half-length portrait of young male figure, seated with left arm resting on table, wearing white shirt, black bow tie, large jacket.
Jane Malbone Dieter and Julia Malbone Pyle [Durang], 1849/00/00
General note
Double portrait, adult female seated wearing brooch, young female standing with arm around adult and wearing vertically striped dress, necklace.
Mrs. Edward Boyd Hincken (Helen Suydam Pyle)
General note
Full-length portrait of young girl, seated with left hand on back of chair, feet on seat of chair, front view, hair parted in middle, wearing white off the shoulder dress and necklace.
Helen Suydam Pyle (Mrs. Edward Boyd Hincken)
General note
Infant wearing white gown, hands clasped on lap.
Unidentified Male Pyle Family Member
General note
Male figure, seated, front view, wearing white shirt and black bow tie, light colored hair.
Unidentified Female Hincken Family Member or Friend
General note
3/4-length portrait of female figure, front view, wearing high white collar, black dress, cross on collar of dress.
Unidentified Young Female Hincken Family Member or Friend
General note
3/4-length portrait of young girl wearing off the shoulder basket weave pattern dress, hair to just above neckline and parted in middle, right arm dropped to side, left arm held up to stomach.
Reverend John Cabaly Middleton and Mrs. John Cabaly Middleton
General note
Double portrait, male and female figures seated, male wearing patterned vest and neckerchief, clean-shaven, hand on right thigh, female wearing polka dot dress and holding book in left hand (Bible?).
General note
Reverend is from the Protestant Episcopal Church of Glen Cove, Long Island.
Eugene A. Hoffman
General note
Male figure, front view, right arm resting on table which holds two books, wearing white shirt, bow tie, ring, clean-shaven.
Eugene A. Hoffman
General note
Male figure, front view, left arm resting on table, wearing white shirt and Buster Brown collar, black bow tie, hair straight and long to above neck, right hand resting on lap.
Herman Laidlie Hoffman
General note
Male figure seated wearing high hat and bow tie, sideburns, hands clasped on lap, stuffed duck near right arm.
Unidentified Male Hurlbutt Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, bearded, front view, wearing striped neckerchief, dark vest, white shirt.
M. Duane Jones [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure, seated with left elbow resting on table and right hand on lap, wearing white collar dark shawl, earrings, rings, necklace, small bow at collar.
William Sullivan Ide and George Elmore Ide
General note
Two young boys, one seated wearing Buster Brown jacket and collar, right hand on lap, one standing wearing 3/4 length blouse with belt, both holding book together.
William Sullivan Ide and George Elmore Ide
General note
Two young boys, seated boy has hands on lap and is facing off to his left, wearing white collar, buttoned blouse, standing bow has right arm resting on left shoulder of seated bow, wearing long dark blouse with buttons down front.
John Romeyn Brodhead [Plumbe, John, Jr., 1809-1857;Brady's Gallery], 1846/10/01
General note
Male figure wearing eyeglasses, white collar and shirt, dark coat, clean shaven, white muffler around neck.
Franics T. Lequier [Plumbe, John, Jr., 1809-1857]
General note
Male figure bald with hair on sides, wearing white shirt and high white collar, black bow tie, clean-shaven.
General note
Card catalog states that donor is grandchild of sitter.
Jane Averell Laidley [Root, S.; Root, M.A.]
General note
Young girl seated holding doll on lap, feet crossed, wearing off the shoulder dress and shiny black boots, hair parted in middle with curls.
General note
Sitter is Great, great, grand daughter of Samuel Blachley Webb, aide de camp of General George Washington.
Jenny Lind
General note
Female figure, seated with hair parted in middle, long sleeved dress, hands on lap.
General note
Card catalog states that mat is labeled "84 JLX"
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure seated with left hand on lap, wearing black dress with white collar and buttons down front, white hairpiece.
E. Livingston or Unidentified Young Female Fisher Family Member or Unidentified Young Female Livingston Family Member or Friend [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Young girl, seated with left elbow resting on table, right hand on lap, wearing red ribbon back of hair, white collar and cuffs, book on table.
General note
Sticker on case states that written on back of plate is "E. Livingston".
E. Livingston [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Male figure, bearded, wearing high white collar and white shirt, vest with gold chain, bow tie.
General note
Sticker on case states that written on back of dag plate is name: E. Livingston, though this sitter is also identified there as either Eugene A. Livingston or a Fisher descendent.
E. Livingston or Unidentified Female Fisher Family Member or Unidentified Female Livingston Family Member or Friend [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure, seated with left hand on table, right hand on lap, wearing white collar and cuffs, hair parted in middle, light eyes, blemish or freckle on chin, brooch at neck.
Unidentified Young Female Livingston Family Member or Friend
General note
Young girl, seated, front view, full length, wearing necklace, off the shoulder knee-length dress with plaid bows at sleeves and high socks.
Unidentified Young Female Livingston Family Member or Friend
General note
Young girl, seated with left arm resting on side of chair, wearing patterned dress with plaid ribbons on sleeves and lace cuffs, hands on lap, hair parted in middle.
Unidentified Female Livingston Family Member or Friend [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure, seated, front view, wearing white collar and cuffs, left hand resting on table, brooch at collar, yellow chain on blouse.
Unidentified Male Livingston Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, seated, front view, side burns, high white collar, white shirt, black bow tie, gold chain in vest.
Lt. Fordham Morris in Uniform [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Male figure, front view, in Civil War Union Army Officer's uniform, fourth button hole unbuttoned, clean shaven, wearing hat.
Marianna Magdalina Monachesi
General note
Female figure seated, 3/4-length, hair parted in middle, necklace, right hand on lap, glove on left hand, long earrings.
Mary A. Mann
General note
Young girl seated with left hand over right wrist, wearing checked dress, hair short to neck.
General note
Sitter is daughter of Levi and Mary (Stevens) Mann, and married Edwin Childs in 1868, and is mother of Lillian E. Childs.
Mary Stevens Mann or Unidentified Female Mann Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure, seated, curls, necklace, brooch, right hand resting on lap, rings, white cuffs, off the shoulder dress.
General note
Accompanying note states that Mary Stevens Mann is wife of Levi Stevens and Mother of Mary A. Mann Childs.
Micah Mann
General note
Male figure, front view, seated, wearing white shirt and collar, bow tie, clean shaven, vest with large buttons, left hand resting on book on table, sitter is slightly off center.
General note
Sitter is son of Seth Mann and great grandfather of Lillian E. Childs.
David Miller and Mrs. David Miller (Jane Ann Schuyler) [Weston]
General note
Male and female figures seated, female wearing red checked bonnet and white collar, cuffs, male is bearded wearing white collar and shirt, chain on vest, left hand on lap.
Mrs. David Miller (Jane Ann Schuyler) and Schuyler Miller
General note
Female figure seated with infant on lap, holding male Colonial doll in her left hand, wearing print dress, infant wearing white dress.
General note
Mrs. David Miller is mother of Schuyler.
Crystal Palace, 1854/00/00
General note
Interior View of South Nave of Crystal Palace in its second year of exhibition, with statues, windows, stairs and other structural elements of building.
General note
Original case for this image in Cased Images Collection: PR-012-6-7
Bache McEvers Whitlock
General note
Infant seated wearing white gown with red necklace, hands on lap.
Mrs. William Whitlock (Eliza Haight Scott)
General note
Female figure, 1/4 profile, wearing black v-neck dress with white blouse under, hair parted in middle, white lace head covering.
General note
Duplicate image.
Mrs. William Whitlock (Eliza Haight Scott)
General note
Female figure, 1/4 profile, wearing black v-neck dress with white blouse under, hair parted in middle, white lace head covering.
General note
Duplicate image.
2 Unidentified Young Female Stagg Family Members and 1 Unidentified Male Stagg Family Member [Jones & Co.]
General note
Two young girls standing with young boy seated on highchair center, girls wearing plaid dresses and red necklaces, bow wearing purple blouse and blue embroidered skirt? with pants, shoes visible.
Catherine Stagg
General note
Female figure seated with right arm resting on book on table, wearing brooch and rings, hair in curls on sides of head.
Esther Stagg (post-mortem)
General note
Young girl laying on dark background, viewed from above, holding flowers in right hand, wearing necklace, off-the-shoulder patterned dress, wrist band, eyes and mouth open, hair parted just slightly off center.
General note
Sitter is daughter of Thomas and Catherine Stagg, twin sister of Mary Stagg; buried in Greenwood Cemetery vault.
Thomas Stagg
General note
Male figure wearing bow tie, black jacket and vest, white shirt and collar, hair light and long to bottom of neck.
Thomas Stagg Jr.
General note
Young boy standing with right arm resting on table, dark jacket with white collar and handkerchief in pocket, bow at neck, hair parted on side.
Unidentified Young Female Stagg Family Member or Friend
General note
Young girl seated holding purse, wearing large gold bracelets just below elbows, black rope necklace, large patterned dress, hair parted in middle.
Catherine Elizabeth White (Mrs. John Steward) or Unidentified Female Stuyvesant Family Member or Friend [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure seated wearing large white bonnet with flowers, ribbons and lace, white bonnet ties in bow at neck, white lace collar, light colored cape, with scalloped edges, hands folded on lap, gold ring.
General note
White married John Steward, father of Mrs. Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant.
Abraham Van Nest
General note
Male figure, front view, seated, clean shaven, wearing white collar, dark coat and vest, right hand on table, left hand on lap.
Amelia E. Van Buskirk [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure, front view, half-length, wearing white lace bonnet, sash on either side, seated, left arm resting on table, right hand on lap, wearing white cuffs, plaid blouse.
General note
Sitter is wife of Edward Henry Cornell.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing black jacket, white shirt and neckerchief, white hair?, black vest, 1/4 length.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing black coat, polka dot tie, white collar, arms crossed over chest, bearded, head tilted upward slightly, 1/4 length, curtain in background.
Unidentified Male (Post-mortem) [Phoenix]
General note
Male figure, profile view, wearing white collar and black jacket, laying on cloth, gray hair.
General note
Photographer is probably French.
Unidentified Male [Walker, S.L.]
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing black jacket with handkerchief in pocket, black bow tie, white shirt and collar (up), bearded, sideburns.
Unidentified Female and Infant [Whitehurst]
General note
Female figure seated holding infant on lap, female wearing black dress with white blouse, brooch, earrings, hair parted in middle and pulled back, infant wearing white dress with white socks and black shoes.
Unidentified Female [Whitehurst Gallery (Washington, D.C.)]
General note
Female figure, profile view, 3/4 length, seated wearing bonnet with white ties at neck, white lace collar, black dress, hands on lap, light colored cuffs.
Louisa Lennox (Whitney) Wright, 1850/00/00-ca1852/00/00
General note
Female figure, front view, seated, right arm on table, two books on table, wearing brooch, white collar in bow, dark dress with short dark sleeves and longer white sleeves.
Alanson Warren and Mary E. Warren
General note
Young girl and young boy, front view, girl is taller, wearing black dress, holding right hand of boy who is wearing buttoned up blouse and white collar.
General note
Sitters are brother and sister.
Mrs. David Williams (Asenath Everts)
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing white bonnet, white collar, seated, right elbow resting on table.
Mrs. William E. Wells [Jube, T.S.], [1850s-ca1858]
General note
Female figure, front view, seated with right arm on table, wearing white collar blue bow tie, brooch, print dress, black lace finger-less gloves, hair parted in middle.
Anna Brookes Waller [Anson, Rufus], ca1860/00/00
General note
Female figure, front view, long curls, plaid dress, chain type necklace.
Mrs. Joseph Waller (Martha Brookes) [Anson, Rufus], 1855/00/00
General note
Female figure, front view, hair parted in middle, white collar, black bow, brooch, black dress, hands on lap.
General note
Sitter is daughter of Joseph Brookes.
William G. Waller and James M. Waller, ca1845/00/00
General note
Two male figures, bearded, wearing high white collars, black bow ties, white shirts, male on left wearing patterned vest and holding cane in left hand, male on right holding cane in right hand.
General note
Sitters are brothers.
John Ward Jr. [Root, S.]
General note
Male figure, head turned 3/4 to left, moustache, white shirt, very large bow tie with vertical stripes on ends and fringe.
General note
Similar image of same sitter in Cased Images File?
John Ward Jr. [Anson, Rufus], 1863/00/00
General note
Male figure, front view, bearded, wearing hat, white shirt, black bow tie, chain on vest, black coat and vest.
John Ward Jr. [Bogardus, A. (Abraham), 1822-1908], 1863/00/00
General note
Male figure, profile to right, bearded, balding to center of head, white shirt and black bow tie, dark coat.
John Ward Jr., mid-late 1850s
General note
Young male figure, head turned to his left 3/4, clean shaven, white shirt and collar, polka dot bow tie, dark coat.
John Ward Jr., early 1850s (?)
General note
Young boy, front view, seated with left hand on book placed on table, wearing white shirt and collar, dark blouse buttoned up front.
John Ward Jr. [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Male figure, front view, bearded, wearing white shirt, striped bow tie, chain on vest, military cap.
John Ward Jr. [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Male figure, front view, bearded, wearing white shirt, striped bow tie, chain on vest.
General note
Similar image of John Ward Jr. in Cased Images File.
John Ward Jr. [Anson, Rufus], 1860/00/00 (?)
General note
Male figure, front view, bust, clean shaven, wearing white shirt, polka dot bow tie, cross pin on left lapel of vest, light colored coat and vest.
John Ward Jr., 1850s
General note
Male figure, head turned 3/4 to left, clean shaven, wearing white shirt, bow tie, hair parted on side.
John Ward Jr. [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Young boy, front view, seated, wearing white collar, blouse buttoned up front, left hand on lap, hair long and curly to shoulders.
Mrs. Henry Ward [Binsse & Co.], [1850s]
General note
Female figure, half length, front view, wearing white blouse with high white collar, brooch, arms crossed on lap, white sleeves on blouse.
Capt. John Ward Jr. and 3 Officers of the 12th Regiment N.Y.S.M. in their tent at Harper's Ferry, 1862/00/00
General note
Four male figures seated at open end of tent, ten pole center, two men seated at right wearing caps, 2 men at left bareheaded, clothing and other objects handing inside tent.
General note
Copy tintype (or tintype taken at same time) is elsewhere in Cased Images File.
Prescott Hall Ward
General note
Young male figure, front view, wearing white shirt, high white collar, polka dot bow tie, clean shaven.
Unidentified Male Webb Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure seated with right arm resting on table, wearing dark jacket and dark silk vest, white shirt and collar with polka dot kerchief at neck, book on table.
Maria Abernathy Burr, Euphemia Cooper Burr, Melanthore Burr, and Charles Abernathy Burr
General note
Four youngsters, two girls and two boys, smallest is sitting in front, hands on lap, girl and boy are seated on either side of boy in front, one girl is standing behind him, front view full length.
General note
Enclosed note identifies the children (left to right, back row first) as Maria Abernathy, Euphemia Cooper, Melanthore, and Charles.
Edward Henry Cornell
General note
Portrait of a male figure with a moustache, wearing white collar, dark foulard, and white shirt.
General note
Edward Henry Cornell, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, 66th Regiment; 55th N.Y.
Unidentified Female Constant Family Member or Friend
General note
Baby girl seated on plaid blanket, wearing white off-the-shoulder dress.
Charles Tighe Henry
General note
Portrait of a young boy, seated, with hands clasped on lap and hair parted on side.
General note
Note from case states that sitter is eldest son of Thomas Soden Henry and Emily Aglae (Cox) Henry.
John William Vaché [Atkins]
General note
Portrait of male, 3/4-length, front view, with right elbow resting on table, clean-shaven with curly hair, wearing white shirt with collar up, and dark bow tie, vest and jacket.
General note
Card catalogue states that sitter was born in New York city and is the eldest son of Alexandrea Felix Vaché, M.D.
Maria Anne Vaché
General note
Portrait of female, 3/4-length, front view, wearing large lace bonnet with long sash under chin, seated, with right hand resting on lap.
General note
Sitter is eldest daughter of Jean Lazare Vaché and Marie Anne Thoret.
William Pilcher
General note
Portrait of male, 3/4-length, with right arm resting on table, wearing pocket chain, white shirt with collar up, dark tie, jacket and vest.
General note
Sitter was born in Dover, England and is son of Henry and Frances Pilcher.
Anna Vaché, ca1854/00/00
General note
Double portrait of woman wearing brooch and holding infant girl on lap; infant is wearing white dress; face of woman appears to have been deliberately scratched away.
General note
Infant sitter is third daughter of John Vaché and Eliza Cox.
Eliza Cox
General note
3/4-length portrait of female, seated with right arm resting on table and wearing earrings, brooch, ring, and large cross around neck.
General note
Sitter is eldest daughter of Henry and Frances Pilcher, and was born in Canterbury, England and died in New York City.
Emilie (Vaché) Cox
General note
Female figure, front view, seated with right arm resting on table, wearing brooch and hair in buns on either side of head.
General note
Card catalogue states that sitter was born in New York City and died in Newark, N.J., and is wife of John Palmer Cox, M.D.
Mary Eliza Cox
General note
Portrait of adolescent girl with right arm leaning on table, wearing earrings and necklace, dress with plaid skirt and lace cuffs and trim, and hair in single knot on either side of head.
General note
Card catalogue states that sitter is second daughter of John Vaché and Eliza Cox.
Unidentified Female and Young Male Crane Family Members or Friends
General note
Double portrait of seated female wearing white collar and brooch with hands placed on lap and standing young boy wearing dark blouse and white pants with left hand resting on female's shoulder.
General note
Survey card states that these sitters are Estelle Crane and her son Alexander Crane, though this does not appear to be so.
Thomas Edwin Delano, 1862/05/00
General note
3/4-length young male figure, front view, clean-shaven, wearing white shirt and light colored bow tie with dark jacket.
General note
Sitter is son of Captain Thomas Delano and father of Mortimer Delano.
Thomas Edwin Delano [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Portrait of male, clean-shaven, wearing black bow tie, white shirt, and hounds tooth checked vest.
General note
Sitter is son of Captain Thomas Delano, father of Mortimer Delano.
Unidentified Young Male Greenwood Family Member or Friend
General note
Young boy, front view, half length, hands on lap, wearing uniform-type outfit with buttons down front of blouse.
Louisa Lumley (or Barnard?) Levy and Arthur Lumley Levy (2 Images in 1 Case) [Anson, Rufus], 1862/04/17
General note
left: Female figure with curls, white collar, blemish above mouth; right: Male figure, front view, moustache, white shirt, high white collar, black bow tie.
General note
Card catalog states that sitters are grandparents of Miss Florence Levy.
Unidentified Male [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Male figure, 1/4 profile view, wearing light colored coat with two large buttons, patterned vest, white shirt, black bow tie, bearded, moustache, kerchief in pocket, right hand resting on back of chair.
John Vaché
General note
3/4-length portrait of male with hands on lap, holding open, solarized-looking book, bearded, wearing white collar and shirt; wearing cross on shirt.
General note
Sitter was born in New York city and is eldest son of John Palmer Cox, M.D. and Emilie Vaché; Interior verso states that casemaker is Brady.
Euphemia Cooper Burr [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Portrait of a female child with off the shoulder dress
General note
Enclosed note states that sitter is daughter of Melanthore Burr Sr. and Euphemia Cooper Burr; mat stamped with photographer's name and location.
Unidentified Young Female Stuyvesant Family Member or Friend
General note
Young girl seated in chair next to table with right hand holding wrist of left hand on lap, wearing checked dress, bows in hair, front view.
Emma Hall Taylor [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Female figure, seated front view, wearing gloves with hands clasped, wearing dark bonnet with flowers, lace underneath coat with striped trip.
Unidentified Female and Unidentified Child
General note
Female figure seated wearing earrings, necklace, brooch, rings, black dress and white blouse underneath, her right elbow resting on table, child seated on her lap wearing blue dress, front view.
Helen (Suydam) Pyle and Julia (Malbone) Pyle
General note
Adult female figure with infant, seated, adult wearing polka dot dress with white collar, infant wearing polka dot dress with red stripes as trim.
General note
Case shows bust of George Washington with four stars, shield, flags and sword, and motto: "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen."
Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant Sr. or Unidentified Young Male Stuyvesant Family Member or Friend [White, E.]
General note
Young boy seated in chair with right hand on lap, left hand in coat, wearing dark velvet jacket, white lace collar, black and white striped band around neck, checkered trousers.
Jenny Lind
General note
Female figure, profile to her right, dark hair pulled down over left ear, wearing dangling earring, white lace collar, brooch.
General note
Card catalog states that label on glass read "83 JLX". Exhibited, Fall, 2000, "Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale in America"
Unidentified Male Gilder Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, bust, wearing black jacket and bow tie, white shirt, pin on shirt, dark vest, white hair.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing white lace scalloped collar with black dress (buttons down front) and black cape/shawl, hair parted on side, brooch.
Mrs. Samuel F. B. Morse (Sarah Griswold) and Susan Walker Morse Playing Chess Outdoors (2 Images in 1 Case) [Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872], 1848/00/00
General note
Two female figures seated at chess table, trees in background, both are wearing white skirts, one wearing black lace overdress and brooch, figure on right has her right hand poised to make a chess move as figure on left observes; second image is same subj
General note
Accompanying note reads: "Daguerreotype by Samuel F. B. Morse. Made in 1848 of his second wife, Sarah (Griswold) Morse and his daughter by his first wife, Lucretia Walker on the lawn of their country home "Locust Grove" Poughkeepsie, N.Y."
Unidentified Female and Unidentified Male
General note
Female figure seated with hands on lap, wearing black dress with scalloped white collar, brooch, white cuffs, wavy hair parted in middle and pulled back, male figure with his right arm around female, wearing dark jacket and vest, white shirt, black bow-ti
5 Unidentified Males
General note
Five male figures, two standing in back, three seated in front, all wearing black jackets and bow ties, white shirts, all clean-shaven.
General note
Extremely similar image in Cased Images File (same title).
Helen Cheever and Julia Cheever (later Mrs. Alanson Warren)
General note
Two young girls wearing plaid dresses with long curls, holding hands in center and arms around each other's shoulders.
General note
Helen and Julia are daughters of Augustus Cheever; Julia Cheever Warren is wife of Alanson Warren; Die Engraver: Smith.
4 Unidentified Females
General note
Four female figures, front view, on white background, 2 standing L-R: female wearing black dress with white lace collar and white cuffs, hair parted in middle, ring, her right hand resting on shoulder of seated female; female wearing plaid dress with broo
Unidentified Male and Unidentified Female
General note
Male figure on left, seated, wearing black jacket and polka dot vest, glasses, black bow-tie, white shirt with high white collar, goatee, hair long to ears, legs crossed, his right hand on lap, left arm around female, seated female figure wearing checked
Rev. Bingham, ca1850/00/00
General note
Male figure, front view, bearded, wearing white shirt and collar, bow tie.
General note
Sitter is protégé of Mrs. Dimock's.
Mrs. Monachesi, 1854/10/09
General note
Female figure seated 3/4 length, front view, white collar, blouse and cuffs, right elbow on table, glove on right hand; opposite side of case: lock of sitter's hair.
General note
Sitter is mother of Miss Marianna Magdalina Monachesi.
Dr. Bodin(i)er
General note
3/4-length portrait of clean-shaven male with long hair, white shirt, solid color foulard, and right hand in foreground.
General note
Enclosed notes identify sitter as a French physician and surgeon.
Mrs. Robert B. Roosevelt (Elizabeth Ellis)
General note
Female figure, front view with hair parted in the middle and curls on sides, wearing off the shoulder dress with rose at center of neckline.
General note
Daguerreotype of painting of daughter of John French Ellis who married R. B. Roosevelt; hinge patented 10/14/1856; Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
Francis H. Murphy [Williamson, Charles H.], [ca1844-1885]
General note
Male figure wearing cap, clean shaven, kerchief in breast pocket.
General note
Card catalog states that "This party was the son of Judge Murphy of Brooklyn and the nephew of Henry C. Murphy who was at one time the Mayor of Brooklyn. He married my great aunt about 1857. (Regina Beyer). This picture was taken about that time. Josephin
Young Male or Young Female Halsey Family Member or Friend
General note
Young boy or girl in costume, standing with right arm resting on table with large blue glass, book, and ? on it, wearing hat with large feather.
Unidentified Female and Young Female Low Family Members or Friends
General note
Female figure seated wearing white lace collar, dark dress, hair parted in middle, ring, brooch, holding hand and waist of infant on lap, infant wearing pink dress with gold trim, white socks, dark shoes.
Mrs. Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant
General note
Young girl seated (on a table?), full length, front view, wearing light colored coat with decorative trim, white lace under-dress and dark skirt, boots, hands on lap, hair parted in middle and pulled back with curls hanging down.
Amanda Edgerly, 1849/10/30
General note
Female figure, front view, seated with left arm resting on table? out of view, hair parted in middle, brooch on collar, earrings, holding unidentified object.
General note
Accompanying note reads: "These pictures were taken when they married, Oct. 30th, 1849.", and states that donor is son of sitter; "TOKEN" written on binding of case; this image and case accompanies on of Joseph H. Edgerly in this collection.
Rev. Eugene A. Hoffman and Mrs. Eugene A. Hoffman (Mary Crooke Elmendorf), ca1852/00/00
General note
Male and female figures, front view, male is seated wearing white shirt and high white collar, white bow tie, chain in vest, female is wearing dark dress, white cuffs, and collar with large bow, brooch, chain on dress with cross and other ornaments.
Sarah W.
General note
Young girl seated wearing plaid dress with white pantaloons and black ballet-type shoes, picture in frame to her right, hair parted in middle, bow at neck, full length, front view.
7 Blank Daguerreotypes
This item was removed in May 2002. Please see PR 157, the Jerry Spagnoli Photograph Collection. Aerial View from 52 W. 26th St. with World Trade Center [Spagnoli, Jerry], 4/19/1999
General note
Water towers in foreground with World Trade Center in distance, view from artist's studio.
General note
This item was removed in May 2002. Please see PR 157, the Jerry Spagnoli Photograph Collection.
This item was removed in May 2002. Please see PR 157, the Jerry Spagnoli Photograph Collection. Aerial View from 52 W. 26th St. with World Trade Center [Spagnoli, Jerry], 4/19/1999
General note
Water towers in foreground with World Trade Center in distance, view from artist's studio.
General note
This item was removed in May 2002. Please see PR 157, the Jerry Spagnoli Photograph Collection.
2 Unidentified Young Females and Unidentified Young Male
General note
Three seated children, young girl on left wearing light colored bow at collar, hands folded on lap, young girl seated center wearing dark dress with white collar and cuffs, seated boy on right wearing white collar and dark shirt.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure seated with her right arm resting on table, wearing striped dress with hairnet (snood), black lace gloves, 1/2 length.
Mary Palmer, (Mrs. Abraham Browning)
General note
Young girl, front view, 3/4 length, left elbow on table, cheek resting on left hand, blue blouse, black skirt, paisley tablecloth.
Unidentified Female and Young Female Thursby Family Members or Friends (2 Images in 1 Case)
General note
Female figure: wearing skirt, flower in lap; Young girl: seated wearing white blouse, checked skirt, white pantaloons.
Unidentified Male and Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure seated on left wearing brooch and dark dress, hair short to just below ears, male figure seated with his right arm around female, wearing dark jacket, bow tie, white collar, beard under chin.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure wearing dark dress, standing (?) with her right arm resting on table, wearing bonnet.
Tombstone of Luke T. Barber
General note
Image of tombstone (outdoors) reads: "Luke T. Barber", other tombstones and trees in background.
Unidentified Young Female (Post-mortem)
General note
Young child laying in casket on white sheets and pillow, head and legs slightly raised, wearing off the shoulder white dress with white stockings and black boots, eyes closed, holding doll in her left hand, wearing necklace.
Unidentified Male and Unidentified Female
General note
Male and female figure, male wearing black jacket and dark vest with bow tie and white shirt, watch chain on vest, female wearing dark dress, arms folded at waist, hair parted in middle.
Unidentified Male Webb Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure 1/4 profile, wearing black jacket, sideburns, white shirt, black bow tie, seated.
Dr. John Neilson
General note
Male figure, front view, right arm resting on table, urn on table, wearing high white collar, black cravat.
5 Unidentified Males
General note
Five male figures, two standing in back, three seated in front, all wearing black jackets and bow ties, white shirts, all clean-shaven.
Unidentified Male and Unidentified Female [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Male figure seated, front view, wearing black jacket and bow tie, white shirt, sideburns, beard under chin, left hand around waist of female figure, she is standing profile, wearing dark dress.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, 1/4 profile view, wearing plaid bow-tie, black jacket, white shirt, clean shaven.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure wearing patterned vest with white shirt, high white collar, black bow-tie and jacket, widow's peak, front view, dimple on chin.
Martha Brookes Waller and Elwyn Waller [Binsse, L.B.], ca1850/00/00
General note
Female figure seated with right hand around waist of boy and left hand on lap with kerchief, wearing black dress and large oval brooch, boy wearing hair in curls, off the shoulder dress, standing.
General note
Sitters are mother and son.
Joshua Brookes, ca1852/00/00
General note
3/4-length portrait of a male in white scarf, balding and clean-shaven.
General note
Card catalogue states that an accompanying note states: "Daguerreotypes of Mr. & Mrs. Joshua Brookes and burnoose of Ms. Ray Boynton. Gift of Miss Mary Pomeray Robinson, Shermans Square Hotel, Broadway & 70th St., NYC. Donor is great grand daughter of J
2 Unidentified Males at Stone Tower/Old Stone Mill, Newport, RI [Lawrence, Martin M.]
General note
Circular tower on circular pillars with arches between them, two male figures in foreground, one leaning against a pillar, tree in right foreground.
Dr. Edward Robinson, ca1855/00/00
General note
Male figure, front view, clean shaven, wearing eyeglasses, high white collar, white shirt, black bow tie, dark coat and vest.
Mrs. Stephen Edson Paine (Mary E. Fellows)
General note
Female figure, front view, hair parted in middle, earrings, brooch, white collar, dark dress.
Father of Edmund Bramhall Child (Unidentified Male Child Family Member)
General note
Portrait of male figure (bust) wearing white collar, solid color foulard, beard from ears around the chin, right ear visible.
Samuel Wetherell [Simons, M. P.]
General note
Young male figure, front view, seated, wearing black jacket, patterned vest, white shirt and collar, black bow-tie, necklace, hair parted on side, hands on lap.
General note
Sitter is 19 years old at time of photograph.
5 Unidentified Males
General note
Five male figures, two standing in back, three seated in front, all wearing bow ties and dark jackets with vests, male on far right standing has hands on shoulders of middle male and male seated on far right.
Ellen Daw Low
General note
Female figure looking off to her lower left, wearing black dress with brooch at collar, white blouse, long chain around neck, hair pulled back and parted in middle, beauty mark on lip, bow in hair.
Joel Squire
General note
Male figure, front view, half-length, clean shaven, wearing white shirt and collar, white bow tie, black coat and vest, left hand holding book, right hand in front of waist.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, looking 1/4 profile to the left of camera, wearing velvet bow tie, white shirt, dark jacket buttoned only at top, black velvet collar on jacket, goatee, moustache, hair straight and parted on side.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, standing profile in front of door (outdoor scene), wearing long black coat with dark pants, white shirt, tall hat, bearded, sideburns, holding closed umbrella under left arm.
Augusta Mary Johnston (Mrs. Horatio Gates Shumway) and Emily Johnston, 1847/00/00 (?)
General note
Double portrait of female figures, one seated and one standing; seated figure wearing large checked dress with hands on lap; standing figure wearing dark dress with right hand on shoulder of seated figure.
General note
Augusta is grandmother of donor.
Unidentified Female Miner Family Member
General note
Female figure front view seated, right elbow on table, wearing white dress, black wrist bands.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, 1/4 profile view, wearing white neckerchief, white high collar and shirt, black coat, curly hair, clean shaven.
Unidentified Male MacMartin or MacLaren Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, 3/4-length, front view, seated with right hand on table, left hand on lap, bald on top, hair on sides, wearing eyeglasses.
Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant Sr.
General note
Young boy seated wearing striped cape and gown with neckerchief, hands on lap.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing striped/patterned dress with white lace collar, bracelets, ring, shawl, necklace, large loop earrings, hair parted in middle with curls down to shoulders, left arm resting on arm of chair, 1/2 length.
Rev. Joseph D. Marshall
General note
Male figure, half-length, front view, clean-shaven, hands clasped in front, white collar and shirt, black bow tie.
Unidentified Young Female, Unidentified Female, and 2 Unidentified Young Males
General note
L-R: Young girl seated wearing light colored patterned dress with white collar, hair parted in middle and pulled back, her left hand on lap; young child seated wearing checked dress, hair parted on side, hands on lap; Female figure seated, front view, wea
Dr. Samuel Carp Ellis [Kearsing], 1/9/1949
General note
Portrait of male figure, front view, seated, right arm on table, white shirt, foulard type bow.
General note
Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
Unidentified Male and Unidentified Young Male Sanford Family Members
General note
3/4-length double portrait of adult male and young boy; adult is seated with left arm around boy's waist; boy is resting right hand on lap of adult and leaning with left hand on adjacent table.
General note
Accompanying note states: "Daguerreotype from the Rudd side of the family…I suspect and I know he is a Sanford", E.R. Greenwood.
Grandfather Low (Unidentified Male Low Family Member)
General note
Male figure wearing dark jacket and vest with watch chain, white shirt and collar with light colored checked bow tie, hair parted on side, front view, seated.
Sophia (Brig)
General note
Ship entering harbor (Port of Palermo) in foreground with docks, choppy water, 2 masts, flags, figures on deck; same ship leaving harbor in background, slightly blurred.
General note
Inscribed verso: "Brig Sophia A. ? Master & M. Hale 1st Mate entering and leaving the Port of Palermo March 1839"
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure front view seated with his left arm resting on back of chair, right arm resting on table in foreground, wearing black coat buttoned to top, white shirt and collar, black bow-tie, hair parted on side, beard under chin, sideburns.
Joseph Perego
General note
Young male figure, seated and reclined, front view, hair parted on side, wearing dark long jacket.
General note
Sitter is brother of Alfred Perego.
Unidentified Female and 2 Unidentified Young Children
General note
Young boy (?) standing wearing plaid coat with belt, white collar, brooch, hair parted on side and short to ears, female figure seated center wearing plaid skirt with dark blouse, large scalloped white lace collar, hair parted on side, brooch, seated youn
George H. Morris and Mary H. Morris [Williamson, Charles H], [ca1844-1885]
General note
Double portrait, female figure with infant on lap, seated, front view, infant wearing white gown, female wearing plaid dress with white lace collar, brooch at neck.
General note
Card catalogue states that Mary is mother of George; originally labeled as "#6".
Unidentified Male Gilder Family Member or Friend [Root's Gallery]
General note
Male figure wearing black jacket, bow tie, high white collar, sideburns, white shirt, patterned scarf.
Mrs. William H. Sackett (Amanda Harper)
General note
Female figure wearing white bonnet, seated with right arm resting on table, two books on table, white collar and brooch at neck, rings.
Unidentified Male Harper Family Member [Beals, A.J.], [1840s-ca1860]
General note
Male figure, clean-shaven, wearing white shirt, black bow tie, thick chain hanging from vest, ring, gray hair.
Unidentified Young Female
General note
Young girl seated with book on lap held by her left hand, right hand touching ear, wearing plaid off the shoulder dress, earrings, hair pulled back and parted in middle, front view.
Rev. Edmund Quicy Sewall and Mrs. Edmund Quincy Sewall (Caroline Ward)
General note
Male and female figures, half-length, front view, male is clean shaven with white hair, high white collar, black bow tie, white shirt, female wearing white bonnet with white sashes, white collar, dark dress, brooch.
General note
Edmund is great-great grandson of Judge Samuel Sewall of Salem (Mass.) witchcraft fame; Caroline is daughter of Col. Joseph Ward, Muster master general in the American Revolution; sitters are great grandparents of donor.
Andrew Arcularius or Unidentified Male Harper Family Member or Friend
General note
Older male figure, front view, clean shaven, wearing black bow tie and white collar, striped shirt under jacket.
Mary Jeanette Brinkerhoff McNulty (Mrs. Marvin McNulty)
General note
3/4-length portrait of a female wearing white bonnet, hands clasped, pin on neck of dress.
General note
Enclosed note with biographical information on sitter; sitter is wife of Marvin McNulty.
Unidentified Young Male Low Family Member or Friend [Beals, A.J.], [1840s-ca1860]
General note
Young boy seated on chair with cloth covering, wearing plaid shirt, horizontally striped pants, black boots, sitter's right arm resting on adjacent table with hat with bow and book, full length.
Unidentified Young Male and 2 Young Female Greenwood Family Members or Friends [Bogardus, A. (Abraham), 1822-1908], ca1853/00/00
General note
One young boy and two young girls on either side of him, all standing; girls wearing similar plaid dresses, bracelets and necklaces (one with cross); boy wearing polka dot shirt, large belt buckle with striped belt, bow tie, embroidered jacket with handke
Mr. & Mrs. James Philip Harper (Florence E. Hyde) and Christina Arcularius Harper [Thompson, Josiah W.], [ca1851-ca1860]
General note
Group portrait of adult male and adult female who is holding infant on her lap, male wearing high collar and white shirt, black bow tie, hands tightly clasped on lap, female's right arm around infant, smiling, wearing lace collar, infant in motion, wearin
General note
Adult sitters are parents of L.C. Harper and of infant sitter.
Francis Harley Lewis [Broadbent, S.]
General note
Young boy standing with left arm leaning on table, right hand holding hat, book on table, ankles crossed, wearing yellow jacket with white collar and light-colored high-water pants.
Joseph Arthur Levy, 1855/00/00
General note
Young male figure standing, left hand resting on back of chair, right hand holding hat and resting on hip, white shirt and high white collar, black bow tie, kerchief in pocket.
General note
Accompanying note states that sitter is son of Arthur L. and Lousia Levy.
Ellen Daw Low
General note
Female figure wearing dark dress with white collar, bow in hair, brooch, ring, long chain at neck, seated, looking off to her lower right.
Dr. Valentine Mott
General note
Male figure, 3/4-profile, white side burns, bald on top, high white collar, white shirt, black bow tie, bearded, scar on forehead?.
Mrs. John Prumett (?) [Beckers & Piard]
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing bonnet with pink flowers, white cuffs and collar, brooch, dark dress, seated with her right hand resting on table, left hand on lap, wearing ring.
Unidentified Female and Unidentified Infant [Mashver]
General note
Female figure, front view, seated with infant on her lap, infant wearing white gown, female wearing black dress with white lace collar, earrings, brooch, chain on dress.
General note
Patent March 8th, 1852.
Mortimer Turner [Jacobs, Emil], [1860s]
General note
Male figure, front view, hair parted on side, beard under chin, high white collar, black bow tie, white shirt.
General note
Sitter married Helen Maria Davidson, granddaughter of John Pintard, and that the donor is daughter of sitter.
Emma Wheeler Smith and Amanda Wheeler
General note
Female figure, infant, both seated, front view, 3/4 length, female wearing black dress with white collar, earrings, left hand on shoulder of infant, wearing wristband.
General note
Adult sitter is grandmother of donor and infant sitter is mother of donor.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure wearing check dress with white collar, brooch, shawl, white bonnet, hair parted in middle, head slightly tilted, seated with left arm resting on arm of chair or table, left hand on lap.
Unidentified Young Female and Unidentified Male
General note
Young girl wearing checked dress seated on lap of male figure who holds her right hand with his left, male figure wearing black coat buttoned to neck, white collar, girl has hair parted in middle with curls around face, front view, male profile view.
Unidentified Female [Root, S.; Root, M.A.]
General note
Female figure, front view, looking off to left of camera, wearing black off the shoulder dress, hair in curls/wavy up in back with hair comb, long necklace, white background (vignette).
Prescott Hall Ward
General note
Young boy seated, long curls, white collar, blue suit, black belt, right hand on arm of chair.
Rosalie (Loulou) Schermerhorn [Gurney, Jeremiah], 1853/00/00
General note
Young girl, full length, seated on table next to chair, feet on seat of chair, left hand on top of chair, hair parted in middle, curls, red dress with diagonal pattern, whit socks.
General note
Sitter is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John P. Schermerhorn; similar to another portrait of Rosalie Schermerhorn.
Colonel Webb [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
Freckle-faced male figure, front view, clean shaven, high white collar, polka dot foulard, gray vest, chain on vest, long side burns.
Unidentified Female Low Family Member or Friend [Norton]
General note
Female figures seated wearing dark dress with white lace collar, paisley shawl, brooch, hair parted in middle, hands on lap.
Mrs. Charles Brown (Marianna Clark Hawley) [Brinckerhoff, J. DeWitt], [1840-1856]
General note
Female figure, 3/4-length, seated, half front view, wearing sheer gloves, white blouse, hands on lap, brooch on collar, earring on left ear, lace collar and blouse, dark velvet vest and cape.
General note
Accompanying note states "Hawley, Marianna Clark (Charles Brown), sister of Mrs. William de Groot". Mrs. Charles Brown.
Unidentified Male and Female Gilder Family Members or Friends
General note
Male and female figures seated, male with legs crossed, wearing black jacket, vest and bow tie, white shirt and high white collar, hair long to above neckline, his right hand on lap and left hand on arm of chair holding hand of female seated adjacent, fem
Sarah Humphrey Hale Hanks (Mrs. Stedman Wright)
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing white lace collar, cameo pin, hair parted in middle, buttons down front of dark dress.
General note
Sitter is grandmother of donor.
Philip Hone
General note
Male figure, 3/4 turn, white hair, wearing black bow tie, white shirt, clean-shaven.
General note
Card catalog states that this is a Daguerreotype from which miniature in Society's collections was made; sitter was New York Merchant and Mayor of New York City, 1825.
Sister of George S. Suydam [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
Female figure seated, wearing large round brooch, black dress with buttons down front.
Niagara Falls (Group Portrait) [Babbitt, Platt D.], 1855/00/00 ca.
General note
Six figures (three couples) standing at edge of Niagara Falls with backs to camera, falls pouring over at right and in center, trees in distance.
Letitia Willets, Phebe Willets, Sarah Willets and Mary Willets, 1847/00/00
General note
Four female figures, front view, half length, female on far left wearing white collar with bow, her arms crossed in front of her, the female next to her has long hair with curls and a chain hanging from her neck down to her waist, the third female from le
General note
Sitters are daughters of Valentine & Jane (Rushmore) Willets of Westbury, L.I.
Mrs. Joshua Brooks (Martha Moore), ca1852/00/00
General note
Portrait of a female with white bonnet, white scarf, and eyeglasses.
General note
Appears to be a mirror image and enlargement of [Mrs. Joshua Brooks (Martha Moore) ( -1853) (a)]
Mary Jeanette Brinkerhoff McNulty (Mrs. Marvin McNulty)
General note
3/4 length portrait of a female with head tilted and chin resting on left hand, right hand resting on white cloth on lap, wearing checked dress and bonnet.
General note
Sitter is wife of Marvin McNulty.
Marvin McNulty
General note
Portrait of a male, 3/4-length, seated and wearing a white collar, solid foulard, print vest, and sideburns.
General note
Inscribed under plate: "Marvin McNulty".
Julia Cheever (later Mrs. Alanson Warren) [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Young girl, full length, standing next to chair, wearing large hat with long ribbon, white dress, petticoat exposed, white stockings and high shoes.
General note
Card catalog states that donor is daughter of Mrs. Alanson Warner.
Unidentified Male Constant Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure seated, leaning head on hand with left elbow on table, hair over ears, wearing white shirt dark tie and jacket.
Emilie Frances Vaché and Isabella Vaché [Williamson, Charles H.], [ca1844-ca1885]
General note
Two children, one standing wearing dress with white collar and white pantaloons, left hand holding left hand of child seated in wicker chair.
General note
Card catalogue states that sitters are children of John Vaché and Eliza Cox.
Mrs. William De Groot (Elizabeth King Hawley) and Katherine Bissell
General note
Two female figures, 3/4-length; girl on left (Elizabeth) has long dark curls, holding a book, wearing bracelet, cross hanging down on chain, and brooch at collar, wearing gloves; girl on right (Katharine) wearing earrings and ring on left hand.
General note
Accompanying note states sitters names and relationship as first cousin, also stating, "Katharine Bissell, granddaughter of David Holly and his wife Martha Coggeshall Holly, who died one day after the birth (Martha). Coggeshall Bissell, wife of a promine
Elizabeth King Holly, Sophie Windle (Mrs. Frank Swan), Margaret and Ellen Windle (Twins). [Brinckerhoff, J. DeWitt], [1840-1856]
General note
Group portrait: Elizabeth seated with Sophie (wearing long polka-dot dress, bracelet and boots) on her lap, twins standing (wearing identical dresses and gloves with hair in fishbone braided pigtails).
General note
Elizabeth is daughter of David Holly and his wife Martha Coggeshall, sister of Mary Stiles Holly (Mrs. Charles Holly); Sophie and her sisters (twins) are step daughters of Mrs. Jane De Forrest Hawley Windle.
Augustus Van Horne Ellis and Unidentified Male Ellis Family Member or Friend
General note
3/4-length double portrait of two male figures, seated, front view; figure to left has his left hand on the shoulder of the other, both have beards and moustaches and rings, left male wearing pocket chain and necklace?, right male with arms folded across
General note
Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
John Stoneacre Ellis
General note
Male figure, half front view, 3/4-length, wearing white collar, coat buttoned up to neck.
General note
Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
George H. Morris and Mary H. Morris [Williamson, Charles H], [ca1844-1885]
General note
Double portrait, female figure with infant on her lap, seated, front view, infant wearing white gown, female wearing plaid dress with lace collar and brooch at neck, earrings, rings.
General note
Card catalogue states that Mary is mother of George; originally labeled as "#6A".
Mary Hall Morris
General note
Female figure, seated with left hand on table, right hand on lap, half front view, 3/4 length, wearing white collar and cuffs, hair pulled down tightly.
General note
Originally labeled as "#9".
Unidentified Young Female Hall or Morris Family Member or Friend [Fredericks? Research], [1843-1890]
General note
Young girl, seated wearing white off the shoulder dress with black piping and sash around waist, chain with locket and cross around neck, right hand on back of chair, scalloped slip, ankles crossed.
Annie E. Anderson (Annie Emma Devereau?), 1852/03/24
General note
Female figure seated with left hand on lap, wearing black bow around neck with brooch, earrings, checked dress, hair parted in middle.
General note
Card catalogue states that the following is written on the back of the paper lining behind the photo: "Annie E. Anderson before she had her head shaved and…?"
George B. Dieter or Jacob Lindley Pyle
General note
Male figure, seated with left arm on table, clean shaven, wearing white shirt and high white collar, kerchief in breast pocket.
Unidentified Male and Female Hincken Family Members or Friends
General note
Double portrait, male and female figures seated on bench, landscape backdrop, female wearing bonnet, white scarf, hands on lap, holding closed fan?, male wearing white shirt, black bow tie, left hand on lap, right arm around female.
Mrs. S. W. Jones and M. D. B. Miller
General note
Female figures, one adult and one child, child seated on lap of adult who is clasping child's hands, child wearing off the shoulder plaid dress, adult wearing bonnet with striped ribbon, lace shawl, brooch at neck.
Niobe Minturn
General note
Female figure, full length, head and body turned to the right, seated, wearing white bonnet, sash tied in a bow under chin, black gloves, upholstered high back chair, shawl.
General note
Sitter is "daughter of Wm. Minturn & Penelope Greene of Newport."
Allen Comstock and Peter Comstock Kellogg (or Unidentified Male Kellogg-Comstock Family Member or Friend) [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
Young male figure standing wearing dark long coat with kerchief in pocket, black vest, dark pants, black bow tie, white shirt with collar folded down, hair parted on side, front view; male figure seated wearing black vest, coat, bow tie, white shirt with
General note
Allen Comstock is seated figure.
Mary Livingston Lowndes (Mrs. John Pyne March)
General note
Female figure, 3/4-length, seated front view with right arm resting on table, left hand on lap holding bouquet of flowers, wearing vertically striped dress and hat with black lace, bracelet.
General note
Sitter is daughter of Rawlins Lowndes and Gertrude Laura Livingston.
Jenny Lind and Otto Goldschmidt [Southworth and Hawes], ca1852/00/00
General note
Male and female figures, half-length, front view, female on left with lace collar and brooch, male on right with high collar and cravat, white shirt and white vest, black coat, moustache and sideburns.
General note
Accompanying note by M. Rosenzweig states that Southworth and Hawes took other daguerreotypes of the sitters secretly before they were married.
Unidentified Male Fisher Family Member or Unidentified Male Livingston Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, front view, wispy white hair and side burns, high white collar and white shirt, black bow tie, vest.
Mrs. Robert Coleman or Unidentified Female Livingston Family Member or Friend and Unidentified Young Female Livingston Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure seated with young girl on lap, hair parted in middle, wearing white collar, dark cape, both hands holding child, child is wearing checked dress with white shoes and stockings.
Unidentified Male Livingston Family Member or Friend [Cook, George Smith, 1819-1902], [1850s-1863]
General note
Male figure with sideburns, high white collar and white shirt, black bow tie, left hand holding lower part of lapel.
General note
See accompanying note with regard to photographer and Brady.
Unidentified Female MacMartin Family Member or Friend [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
Female figure, 3/4-profile, wearing dangling earring on right ear, white lace collar, large brooch, black dress with buttons down front.
Unidentified Female MacMartin or MacLaren Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure, seated, wearing white bonnet and holding book on lap with right hand, book on table next to sitter.
George C. McWhorter
General note
Male figure, profile, bearded, high white collar, white shirt, black bow tie.
George H. McWhorter [Anson, Rufus], 1860/12/08
General note
Male figure, front view wearing eyeglasses, high white collar and white shirt, black bow tie, bald on top, white side burns.
John Laurance McWhorter [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Male figure, front view, bearded, wearing eyeglasses, high white collar, white shirt, black bow tie.
General note
Card catalog states that sitter is son of George H. McWhorter.
Margaret McWhorter [Anson, Rufus], 1860/12/05
General note
Female figure wearing white bonnet with ribbons coming down on either side, white collar, brooch.
General note
Card catalog states that sitter is daughter of John Laurance and wife of George H. McWhorter.
Unidentified Female and Unidentified Male [Gurney, Jeremiah], 1853/00/00-1859/00/00 ca.
General note
Female figure seated wearing checked ribbon in hair, white lace collar with large brooch at neck, light colored dress, earrings, ring, hair parted in middle, hands folded on lap, male figure wearing dark jacket and vest, watch chain, bow tie, white collar
James H. Platt (Fireman) [Weston]
General note
Male figure in uniform of fireman seated with neckerchief, thick white belt, legs crossed, hand on thigh, his right hand resting on horn on table, rope on horn, wearing tall fireman's hat with "Foreman HC 1 J.H.P." inscribed, front view.
General note
Inscribed interior verso: "James Platt/Father/Frach C. Platt".
Mrs. William Whitlock (Eliza Haight Scott)
General note
Female figure, 1/4 profile, wearing black v-neck dress with white blouse under, hair parted in middle, white lace head covering.
General note
Duplicate image.
Hannah Galbreath Thursby and Aunt Mary
General note
Two female figure, elderly lady seated, wearing white bonnet, tied under chin, white collar, black dress, younger female standing with left elbow on shoulder of seated female, wearing locket, plaid dress with white collar.
General note
Written on case: "Emma Thursby Collection"; accompanying note identifies sitters as "Grandmother Thursby and Aunt Mary".
Male Thursby Family Member
General note
Male figure with head turned 3/4 to his left, clean shaven, white shirt, bow tie, hair parted in middle, black coat and vest.
Unidentified Female
General note
Painting of Female figure wearing white off the shoulder dress, translucent shawl, short sleeves (to elbow), curly hair parted in middle, facing 1/4 profile, breezy, white background.
Elwyn Waller and Ella S. Waller [Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896], ca1854/00/00-1855/00/00
General note
Front view, one young boy standing wearing short sleeved blouse with wide belt at waist, white pants, long curls, left arm around shoulder of seated young girl wearing short sleeved dress with ruffles and bow at shoulder, hands on lap.
General note
Sitters are brother and sister.
Prescott Hall Ward or Unidentified Male Ward Family Member or Friend [Whitehurst Gallery (Washington, D.C.)]
General note
Male figure, freckled, head turned 3/4 to right, clean shaven, wearing high white collar, black bow tie.
Mrs. Ray Boynton (Anna Brook(e)s) [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
Female portrait, 3/4-length, with white lace blouse and collar, slightly tinted.
General note
Daughter of Joshua Brookes, wife of Ray Boynton; "J. Gurney 189 Broadway" stamped on mat.
Ray Boynton
General note
Male portrait, 3/4-length, clean-shaven with white shirt, solid color foulard, coat and vest.
Augustus Cheever, Helen Cheever and Julia Cheever (Mrs. Alanson Warren)
General note
3/4-length group portrait: two young girls wearing plaid dresses and necklaces with lockets; adult male in center wearing goatee, white shirt, dark jacket and foulard.
General note
Card catalog states that donor is daughter of Julia Cheever, and Helen and Julia are daughters of Augustus Cheever; Julia Cheever Warren is wife of Alanson Warren.
William and Rebecca Cooper
General note
3/4-length double portrait of seated male and female; male clean-shaven with long sideburns, white shirt, dark foulard; female wearing white bonnet and crossing arms.
General note
Sitters are sister-in-law and brother of Peter Cooper.
Charles Tighe Henry and Thomas Henry Sodent Jr.
General note
Two young boys, standing, front view, with taller boy's left elbow leaning on table with floral table cloth, and right arm on shoulder of shorter boy, wearing checked pants; shorter boy wearing striped pants; both wearing white shirts.
General note
Note on case states that sitters are children of Thomas Sodent Henry and Emily Aglae (Cox) Henry.
Charles Tighe Henry and Thomas Henry Sodent Jr.
General note
Two young boys, one seated with right elbow on table, the other standing with right hand resting on shoulder of seated boy; both are wearing large bow ties, dark jackets with buttons down front, and matching pants.
General note
Note from case states that sitters are children of Thomas Soden Henry and Emily Aglae (Cox) Henry.
Mrs. John William Davis (Mary Louise Van Beuren) [Whitehurst Gallery (Washington, D.C.)], ca1851/00/00 (?)
General note
3/4-length portrait of female figure, seated, front view, with right hand resting on table and wearing high collared plaid dress, earrings, rings, bracelet, crown and brooch.
General note
Accompanying note from donor lists history of image and states that sitter was the grandmother of donor.
Augustus Van Horne Ellis, ca1853/00/00
General note
3/4-length portrait of male figure, standing with left hand resting on pedestal, left hand holding horn, wearing fireman's uniform, hat and belt, number four on his left lapel.
General note
Label reads: Daguerreotype of Augustus Van Horne Ellis, (1832-1863) in his uniform as a member of the California Engine Company No. 4 of San Francisco, around 1853; Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
Reverend Stedman Wright Hanks [Warren, George Kendall], [ca1853-1870]
General note
Male figure, right profile, clean-shaven, wearing white shirt with high white collar, dark bow tie.
General note
Sitter is grandfather of donor.
George Hall Morris [Williamson, Charles H], [ca1844-1885]
General note
Young boy in blue dress with floral trimming on skirt, right hand on table, curls, front view.
Philip Jacob Arcularius [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
Male figure seated with right arm on table, side burns, wearing high gray hat with large hat band, white collar and shirt, bow tie.
Jane Malbone Dieter [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
Young female figure, standing with left hand resting on table, hair in braided buns on sides of head, off the shoulder dress, black bow in hair.
Judge John Turner Waite or Unidentified Waite Family Member or Friend [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
General note
Male figure, head turned 1/4 to right, half length, bearded hair graying, gray coat, white shirt and high white collar, black bow tie.
General note
Sitter married Elizabeth, sister of Joseph Rudd.
John Ward Jr. [Lawrence]
General note
Male figure, head turned to right, clean shaven, white shirt and collar, polka dot bow tie, small checked vest with chain hanging, kerchief in breast pocket of coat.
Joseph Robinson Bleecker
General note
Portrait of male figure (bust) with beard and dark coat, as well as white waistcoat.
General note
1/4 in. glass.
Unidentified Young Male Hurlbutt Family Member
General note
Young boy standing with left arm leaning on pedestal, holding hat in hand, curls, checked blouse, wide belt.
Abraham Pasha Maine and Catherine Arney Close Maine, ca1849/00/00
General note
Male and female figures seated, front view, male has left arm behind female, male is wearing high white collar and white shirt, bow tie, chain on striped vest, clean shaven, female has high white collar, black dress, right hand resting on lap, hair parted
General note
Sitter is mother of donor.
Fire Engine (made by Henry M. Ludlum)
General note
Early fire engine with four wheels, rope wrapped around front axle, shaft in front with clasps for grasping and pulling, animal heads on front of vehicle.
General note
Fire Engine made by Henry M. Ludlam in New York City, 1830.
Colonel George B. Hall
General note
Male figure, front view, half-length, with long sideburns, moustache, high white collar, black bow tie, white shirt
General note
Card catalogue states that a numeral (4) was pasted on glass.
2 Unidentified Female Jarvis Family Members or Friends [Cook, George Smith, 1819-1902], [1850s-1863]
General note
Two female figures, woman on left is seated wearing white collar, black ribbon around neck, brooch, woman to right is standing, wearing black ribbon around neck, white collar, right elbow and left hand on left shoulder of seated female.
General note
A slip of paper in case reads "Note signature of George S. Cook inside case--Cook was major Southern daguerreotypist and was the Confederate Brady" in 1851 Brady asked Cook to operate his studio in NYC while he was on tour of Europe.
Unidentified Male [Anson], 1857/01/01
General note
Male figure, front view, seated wearing on glove and holding one glove in his right hand on lap, wearing black coat with black vest and neckerchief, handkerchief in pocket, pin on neckerchief, sideburns, curly hair parted on side, his left arm resting on
Mrs. Charles Morris Cox (Ella Volina Palmer)
General note
Female figure, profile, white collar, pink blouse.
John P. Schermerhorn
General note
Male figure, 3/4-turn to sitter's right, long side burns, high white collar, black bow tie, black vest and coat, hair parted on side.
General note
Sitter is husband of Louise P. Williamson.
Rosalie Schermerhorn [Gurney, Jeremiah], 1853/00/00
General note
Young girl, seated on table next to chair, full length, left hand on top of chair, front view, hair parted in middle, curls, red dress with diagonal pattern, white socks, boots.
General note
Sitter is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John P. Schermerhorn; similar to another portrait of Rosalie Schermerhorn in this collection.
Edmund Elmendorf
General note
Male figure, front view, half length, with white hair, wearing white foulard and dark jacket and vest.
Unidentified Young Female Halsey Family Member or Friend
General note
Seated female figure wearing fur stole and cuffs, black leather gloves, dark dress with white collar and brooch, positioned with right arm resting on adjacent table, hands on lap, facing 3/4 front view.
Mrs. Metcalf (Susan Whitlock)
General note
Female figure, 1/4 profile, wearing v-neck dress with lace up front, white blouse underneath, brooch, hair parted in middle, hands joined at lap.
John Drake Sloat
General note
Male figure in military uniform coat with bow tie, tassels, white shirt, clean shaven.
Tombstone of Hanny Read (?)
General note
Tombstone reads: "Hanny Read", trees and other tombstones in background, outdoors.
Henry Clay [Lawrence, Martin M.], 1845/00/00-ca1848/00/00
General note
Portrait of a male figure (bust) wearing white collar, dark foulard, dimple in chin and hair over ears, key or brooch of some sort on lapel.
General note
Note identifies sitter and photographer.
Uzal Knapp [Esterly, D.]
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing eyeglasses on forehead, deeply wrinkled face, clean shaven.
General note
Accompanying notes describe history of sitter (entered American Army 1777, appointed Sergeant in Life Guards 1778, discharged by Washington 1783).
Jenet Gossman Dewitt
General note
3/4-length female figure, seated half-front, wearing all black except for white lace fringe in bonnet, wearing gloves.
2 Unidentified Young Female Halsey Family Members or Friends
General note
Double portrait of young girls, taller girl is wearing white lace blouse and light colored skirt with knickers and tights showing, and holding umbrella in right hand; shorter girl is wearing large plaid blouse, high-water pants, boots, and is holding what
Unidentified Female Halsey Family Member or Friend [Beckers & Piard]
General note
Female figure wearing white bonnet, shawl, dark dress, hands folded on lap.
Unidentified Male Halsey Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing white shirt with high collar, dark jacket, black foulard, chain at neck.
Daniel Webster
General note
Male figure, front view, clean shaven, wearing high white collar, white shirt, black bow tie, dark coat, velvet collar, graying hair.
General note
Label adhered to velvet lining identifies sitter with coat of arms and "Vera Pro Gratis"; another label adhered to velvet states: "Presented to George Hall by Daniel Webster".
Clara Hood (post-mortem)
General note
1 year old girl, post-mortem, laying on back and covered with fringed paisley blanket, short sleeve dress with yellow sleeve bows, white socks, black shoes.
Unidentified Female DeGroot Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure seated with her left arm resting on table, wearing gloves, dark coat with bracelet, brooch, cross hanging from neck, dark bonnet, white lace at base of bonnet/collar, holding an object in hands.
Unidentified Male Phelps Family or Salisbury Family Member [McCartey]
General note
Male figure, front view, hair parted on side, goatee, high white collar, black bow tie, white shirt, dark coat and vest.
Daniel F. Tiemann
General note
Male figure seated, half-length, bearded, gray hair, wearing high white collar, white shirt, black bow tie, black coat and vest, right elbow resting on table.
General note
Sitter was Mayor of New York City (1858-1860).
Mrs. Frances C. G. McWhorter and Alexander McWhorter
General note
Female figure and child, front view, female wearing white dress and child wearing red dress, background of green drapes, heavily hand-painted.
General note
Sitters are mother and son; may have been copied from an engraving by R. Paine.
Unidentified Infant [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Infant sleeping with head on white pillow, mouth open, eyes closed, feathered hat on chest, arm outstretched.
Ella Low, Harriet Low, Wm. G. Low Sr., A. Aug. Low, and S. Low
General note
5 children, 3/4 -length, L-R: young girl standing wearing off the shoulder dress with short sleeves, hair parted in middle, holding object in her right hand at waist level, left hand on shoulder of young boy to her left; young boy standing wearing check c
General note
Sitters are identified on accompanying paper, but writing is illegible.
Unidentified Landscape with Tollhouse [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Toll House sign on left with large building on right, street lamp, landscape with buildings in background, road in foreground.
Unidentified Landscape [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Buildings, Church spire, landscape.
Unidentified Landscape [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Landscape image with what appears to be a river, factories and one large tower in background.
Unidentified Harbor Landscape [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Harbor scene with ships and water in foreground and buildings in background.
George Hall [Root, S.; Root, M.A.], ca1850/00/00
General note
Male figure, half front view, clean-shaven, wearing white shirt and black bow tie.
General note
Card catalogue states that sitter was President of the Village of Brooklyn, first mayor of the city of Brooklyn in 1834, 13th Mayor of City of Brooklyn 1855-1856.
Mrs. William Smith Valentine (Emily Bill)
General note
Female figure, front view, seated with head and paw of white dog on her lap, wearing dark bonnet with long sash under chin, black gloves.
General note
Accompanying note states that sitter is mother of Mrs. John Garthwaite Pierson (Marie Estelle Valentine) and grandmother of donor.
Unidentified Church
General note
View of side and front of white church with large white columns, trees, windows and bell tower.
Unidentified Landscape
General note
Landscape with farmhouses, trees and hills in background.
Unidentified Landscape
General note
Landscape with farmhouses, trees and hills in background.
Unidentified Landscape
General note
Landscape with farmhouses, trees and hills in background.
Great-grandmother Ward (Unidentified Female Ward Family Member)
General note
Female figure seated in high back chair draped with tasseled plaid shawl, sitter wearing light colored robe, white blouse, hair in curls, full view, hair parted in middle, looking off to her right.
Mary Ann Southweir or Unidentified Female Ward Family Member or Friend
General note
Bust of female figure wearing plaid bow tie, hair parted in middle, plaid/striped blouse, white collar, looking off to her lower right.
Grandfather Ward or Unidentified Young Male Ward Family Member or Friend
General note
Young male figure seated wearing black tie, white collar, plaid vest, dark jacket with black collar, right hand resting on arm of chair, chair facing 1/4 profile, sitter is smiling, hair parted on side.
Augustus Van Horne Ellis
General note
Male figure, 3/4-length, seated, front view, clean-shaven, wearing bow tie, white collar, coat buttoned up to neck with large buttons, arms folded in front of body, holding handkerchief?, brooch.
General note
Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
Unidentified Male and Female Webb Family Members or Friends
General note
Male and female figures seated, female wearing blue dress and black lace shawl with white collar and ties at neck, male with arm around back of female and legs crossed, wearing black jacket and bow tie, white shirt, black vest.
William Cullen Bryant
General note
Male figure seated front view with head turned 1/4 to his left, wearing plaid vest, black neckerchief, white collar and shirt, black coat, hands on lap, sideburns, gray hair.
John French Ellis, Samuel Carp Ellis, Elizabeth Van Horne and Gerard Stuyvesant [Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896], [ca1843-1869]
General note
Four figures, L-R: Male figure seated with white beard and hair, arms crossed on chest, wearing black jacket, pants and vest, male figure standing wearing black coat and pants with polka dot tie and white collar, hair curly, clean shaven, his right hand r
Augustus Van Horne Ellis, Samuel Claudius Ellis, John Stoneacre Ellis, and Susan Margaret Ellis [Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896], [ca1843-1869]
General note
Four figures, L-R: Young male seated wearing black jacket unbuttoned with vest, black neckerchief, white shirt and collar, white handkerchief in pocket, fringe on cuff, hair parted on side and long to ears; standing young male wearing black coat buttoned
General note
Sitters are daughter and sons of Samuel Carp Ellis.
John Knickerbocker Jr. and Elizabeth Winne Knickerbocker [Schapper, Garth]
General note
Male and female figures, seated, table with two books on it between them, female holding white material on her lap, male with legs crossed, wearing hat, and right hand resting on table; painting made in 1805/04/20
Matthew Galbraith Perry, 1852/00/00
General note
Male figure, front view, clean-shaven, high white collar, black bow tie.
William H. Seward
General note
Male figure, front view, clean shaven, high white collar, black bow tie, thick eyebrows, grayish hair.
General note
Sitter was Governor of New York and a United States Senator, as well as the Secretary of State in Lincoln & Johnson Administrations who negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia.
Mrs. William H. Avirell (Mary Shute Williamson) [Stancliffe, J.W.]
General note
Female figure, front view, seated with right arm in back of chair and hand resting on top of chair, hair parted in middle, white collar and large dotted border bow tie, chain at waist.
General note
Sitter is daughter of Col. Robert P. Williamson.
Unidentified Male Beekman Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, full length, in clergy garb with white hair and left hand clutching rolled scroll on cloth-covered table
Mary Elizabeth De Peyster [Thompson, Josiah W.], 1849/00/00-ca1853/00/00
General note
3/4-length portrait of seated female wearing white dress, earrings, brooch and lace collar.
General note
Card catalog states that sitter is the last surviving child of Frederick and Ann Beekman De Peyster, sister of Margaret James De Peyster.
Margaret James DePeyster [Thompson, Josiah W.], 1849/00/00-ca1853/00/00
General note
3/4-length standing female figure, front view, wearing earrings and brooch and holding handkerchief.
General note
Card catalog states that sitter is daughter of Frederick and Ann Beekman De Peyster, sister of Mary Elizabeth De Peyster, and is unmarried.
Unidentified Male Honeywell Family Member
General note
Seated male figure, front view, face deeply wrinkled and aged, clean-shaven, high white collar black cravat, coat and vest.
George Hall, George H. Morris and John T. Morris, [ca1844-1885]
General note
Adult male figure with two young boys, front view, child to far left wearing 3/4 sleeve blouse, yellow buttons, child in middle wearing plaid dress, adult male is clean shaven wearing white shirt and hold child on right with both hands.
Unidentified Male and Female Jarvis Family Members or Friends
General note
Male and female figures, front view, female seated wearing black dress and gloves, white collar, hands on lap, brooch and monocle around neck, male standing in military uniform, insignia of the Army Engineers on his epaulets, white belt, gray hair.
Gerhard Caesar, Mrs. Gerhard Caesar (Catharina Angle Reiberg) and Johanna L. Traub
General note
Three figures, seated male figure on far left wearing black neckerchief and coat with white shirt and collar, gray hair, ring, his left hand in coat, female figure standing center wearing plaid dress with brooch, earrings, white blouse underneath, hair p
Matthew Galbraith Perry
General note
Male figure, 3/4-length, front view, dresses in uniform of Civil War period, left hand holding top of sword, right arm resting on table holding hat in hand, clean-shaven.
Mrs. John P. Schermerhorn (Louise P. Williamson) [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
Female figure, head turned to left, hair parted in middle, white blouse with ribbon, piping.
General note
Original miniature painted in Paris by Dubourjal ca 1850.
Ephraim G. Squier or Unidentified Male Squier Family Member or Friend
General note
Male figure, seated, turned 3/4 to left, half length, bearded, wearing high white collar, black bow tie, right arm resting on table.
J. Schenk Suydam
General note
Male figure, half length, head turned slightly to right, bearded, sideburns, high white collar, black bow tie, white shirt, chain in vest.
General note
Accompanying newspaper clipping of sitter's obituary.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, 1/4 profile, wearing black coat and vest, white neckerchief, hair short on top, long curls on sides, white.
Unidentified Female
General note
Female figure, front view, wearing floral patterned dress with dark shawl, large white bonnet with white ties in bow at neck, seated with her right hand resting on table, wearing black lace fingerless gloves, look to lower left of camera.
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, profile view, sideburns, beard, hair parted on side, wearing black jacket and bow-tie, white shirt and high white collar.
Mrs. W. G. Ward [Germon, Washington L.], ca1858/00/00
General note
Female figure, standing with right arm on table, wearing earrings, white lace collar, white dress, belt at waist with chain and charm dangling from it, black lace shawl, freckled face.
Jenny Lind, 1850/10/00
General note
Female figure seated beside table with scenic vase of flowers, black lace overdress, brooch, rings, right hand resting on table, belt around waist.
Julia Cheever (later Mrs. Alanson Warren)
General note
Full-length portrait of young girl standing with right hand on table, two books on table, wearing long curls, white dress, shoes and stockings.
House of John P. Schermerhorn, Morristown, N.J., with Unidentified Male, Unidentified Female and 2 Unidentified Young Females, 1855/10/10
General note
Exterior view of white 2-story house with pitched roof, window on side of house, front porch with decorative pillars and borders, chimney on each side of roof, adult male and adult female figures on either side of 2 young girls standing on porch, trees in
John White
General note
Male figure right profile wearing polka dot neckerchief, curly hair, striped vest, dark jacket with black velvet collar, white shirt.
General note
Accompanying note states that sitter is brother of Mrs. John Steward.
Cornelia White or Unidentified Stuyvesant Family Member or Friend
General note
Female figure seated wearing lace collar, dark v-neck dress, lace cuffs, handkerchief on lap, hair parted in middle and pulled back, hands at lap, ring.
General note
White is sister of Mrs. John Steward
Mrs. John Steward (Catherine Elizabeth White)
General note
Female figure seated with one arm across waist, light dress with cape and fringes, white lace collar and cuffs, hair pulled back tightly and parted in middle, front view.
General note
Sitter is Mother of Mrs. Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant St. (Harriet Leroy Steward).
Parke Godwin [Meade Brothers], 1850s
General note
Male figure, front view, wearing glasses, beard below chin, wearing striped vest, white shirt and collar, black jacket, standing, his right arm resting on chair back.
General note
Sitter is son-in-law of William Cullen Bryant; donor is grandson of sitter.
Mrs. Volney B. Palmer (Eliza Boyd) [Chase]
General note
Female figure, front view, seated with hair parted in middle, white lace blouse, pink bow tie, jacket laced half way up front.
Unidentified Young Female
General note
Young girl seated with right arm on table, trophy cup on table, wearing black off the shoulder dress, necklace, brooch, earrings, ring, hair in braided pigtails, parted in middle, 1/4 profile.
Asher B. Durand
General note
Male figure, front view, with both hands holding handle of cane or umbrella, wearing white shirt, bow tie, beard under chin.
General note
Sitter is an American artist and engraver.
2 Unidentified Young Male Hurlbutt Family Members [Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896], [ca1843-1869]
General note
Two young boys standing, taller boy has left arm around shorter boy, front view, both holding hats in hands, shorter boy is wearing large belt buckle and velvety coat with large bow tie, taller boy is wearing handkerchief in pocket, bow tie, chain on jack
Isaac Volney Baker, Laura D. Comstock Baker, Lucy Comstock Baker, Isaac V. Baker, Jr. and Charlie Kellogg Baker [Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896], 1852/05/06
General note
Group of five figures, L-R: Young boy seated on lap of female figure, boy is wearing paisley blouse with white pants and striped socks, fair-haired; Female figure seated with boy on lap is wearing black dress with white lace collar, brooch, striped bow at
Catherine Elizabeth Steward Stuyvesant and Anne White Stuyvesant
General note
Two young girls, one seated wearing yellow short-sleeved dress, bracelet, ring, hair pulled back tightly, one girl standing with left arm resting on shoulder of seated girl and right hand resting on right arm of seated girl, wearing dark dress with doily-
John White [Root, S.]
General note
Vignette of male figure wearing top hat, white background, sideburns, beard under chin, black jacket, white shirt, black foulard.
General note
Sitter is brother of Mrs. John Steward.
Mrs. W. G. Ward [Germon, Washington L.], ca1858/00/00
General note
Female figure, seated, front view, wearing earrings, white lace collar, white dress, black shawl, chain on belt.
Mrs. C. A. Buckeley (Julia Neilson?) and children: John Buckeley, Charles Buckeley and Julia Buckeley
General note
Group portrait: Female adult seated, little girl on lap, young boys standing on either side of her, front view, full length, boy on right has his right hand on adult's shoulder, boy on left has one hand on adult's lap and one on his hip.
General note
Enclosed note identifies sitters.
Clarkson Crolius Jr., ca1855/00/00
General note
Portrait (bust) of a male figure, front view, wearing white shirt and dark bow tie, sideburns, and collar up under chin.
Mrs. Edward Cooper and son Peter (Pierre) Cooper [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
3/4-length double portrait of seated female figure with infant on lap; female wearing white collar, gloves, striped skirt; baby wearing white lace gown.
General note
Accompanying note describes sitters' histories: Cornelia Redmond was married in 1863 to Edward Cooper, and their son Peter, called Pierre, died during childhood.
James W. Cromwell, William Cromwell, Mrs. William Cromwell and 2 Unidentified Female Cromwell Family Members [Holmes, S. A. (Silas A.), 1819 or 20-1886], [1847-ca1858]
General note
5 Figures (four seated, one standing), L-R: seated female 1/4 profile, wearing white bonnet, white blouse, shawl, dark dress, hands on lap; standing young male wearing jacket with buttons down front, black bow tie at neck, white collar, dark pants; seated
Ella Low
General note
Young girl standing with left hand resting on back of chair, wearing black off the shoulder dress with locket on string around neck, hair pulled back, 3/4-length.
Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Smith
General note
Female figure, front view, 3/4 length, seated, right arm resting on table, bracelets on both wrists, net on hair, earrings, white blouse, brooch, black dress.
General note
Note on case states that sitter is wife of Seba Smith.
Mrs. Matthew Galbraith Perry [Beckers, Alexander], 1858/00/00-ca1863/00/00
General note
Female figure, seated, front view, 3/4-length, wearing black bonnet, white collar, holding white handkerchief in left hand, black dress.
Unidentified Young Male and Unidentified Young Female
General note
Young boy standing wearing high-water pants with scalloped cuffs, white tights, light colored off-the-shoulder blouse with buttons down front and scalloped lining, hair parted on side, his left arm around neck of young girl, right hand on arm of chair, yo
Unidentified Female and Unidentified Young Female [Langenheim, William, 1807-1874; Langenheim, Frederick, 1809-1879]
General note
Seated female figure, front view, wearing dark dress and black lace gloves, dark bonnet with black bow at neck, white collar, her left arm resting on back of seat, right hand holding left hand of young girl, girl wearing white bonnet, black dress (short s
Mr. and Mrs. Baxter
General note
Double portrait of male (seated at left), and female (standing at right) wearing fur hood
General note
Accompanying note is enclosed from Julia B. Livingston and identifies sitter's as her maternal grandparents.
Julia Dean [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
3/4-length seated female figure leaning right elbow on table and wearing chain with cross, white collar, decorated ribbon in hair, rings, and dark dress with tasseled cuffs and velvet trim.
General note
Card catalog states that sitter was an American actress: "She appeared at the Bowery Theatre as Julia in 'The Hunchback'. She married Dr. Haybe in 1855 from whom she was later divorced."
John French Ellis, Dr. Samuel Carp Ellis, Elizabeth Ellis (Mrs. Robert B. Roosevelt) and Gerard Stuyvesant [Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896], [ca1843-1869]
General note
Four figures, 3 male and one female (female and one male seated); front view, full length, seated male has white beard and hair, standing male on right holding cane.
General note
verso: "cu" in yellow paint; John French is father of Samuel Carp Ellis, who is husband of Elizabeth Van Horne Ellis; Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
Sue Ellis (Mrs. John Hewston Jr.) and 3 Young Male Ellis Family Members [Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896], 1851/00/00-ca1852/00/00
General note
Group portrait, 3 boys and 1 girls (2 boys seated); boys wearing rings, darks jackets, pants, white shirts, handkerchiefs, hair to below ears; girl wearing bracelet, plaid dress, white collar, curls.
General note
verso: "cu" painted yellow; Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
John T. Morris, Isabella T. Morris and William H. Morris
General note
Group portrait, three figures, two males seated, one female standing between, male on left is clean shaven with high white collar and black bow tie, holding book or Daguerreotype case on lap, female is wearing earrings, long yellow chain, left hand on rig
General note
John is uncle of George Hall Morris, Isabella is aunt of same, William is father of same.
Cornelia Brinkman Kip and Deborah Minturn Abbatt or Mary Abbatt
General note
Female figures seated with young girl standing adjacent, woman has her left elbow leaning on table, left hand holding left hand of girl, right hand around waist of girl, front view, full length, book on table.
General note
Accompanying note states that "Child is Cornelia Brinkham Kip who married William Henry Burr, a great uncle of the donor. She was the daughter of Henry Kip and his wife Elizabeth Minturn Abbatt. She is standing by one of her aunts, either Deborah Mintur
Morris Burr Ketchum
General note
Young male figure, 3/4 length, front view, seated with left arm resting on table, clean shaven, wearing white shirt and high white collar, black bow tie, right hand resting on right thigh, patterned vest, handkerchief in breast pocket.
Jenny Lind [Richards, Frederick Debourg], 1850/10/18 or 1850/10/19
General note
Female figure seated on sofa, front view, left hand resting on lap, right hand on arm of sofa, wearing lace topped dress with shoulders bare, lace also at cuffs, hair parted in middle.
General note
Accompanying notes state that image was taken during sitter's American concert tour under management of P.T. Barnum: "She sold this picture from the stage of Musical Fund Hall for charity." Exhibited, Fall, 2000"Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale in Ame
Edward Macgregor
General note
Male figure front view, moustache, high white collar, white shirt, bow tie.
Rutgers Female Institute, Class of July, 1856 (Group Portrait), 1856/07/01
General note
18 Females and 2 Males arranged for group portrait, females predominantly wearing black or plaid dresses with brooches, hair parted in middle, large white collars, hands on laps, males wearing black jackets and white shirts and collars, one male has white
Robert Lenox Belknap [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
3/4-length portrait of young boy, seated in 3/4 length coat with frog type button arrangements and left elbow on table.
Grave of Robert Barnard [Ford]
General note
Male figure standing holding tall top hat, his left hand resting on fence around grave with tall tombstone, trees in foreground, male figure is wearing polka dot vest, outdoor image.
Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield [Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896], [ca1843-1869]
General note
Male figure seated, front view, holding book in his left hand and pointing at it with his right hand, wearing black jacket and vest with white bow-tie and shirt, high white collar.
General note
Sitter was Pastor of the 7th Presbyterian and of the North Church in New York.
Jane C. Burdsall [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
3/4-length portrait of a seated female with right arm resting on table, white lace collar and cuffs, hair parted in middle and long tresses on side of head.
General note
Wife of Isaac Daw Russell, grandmother of donor; enclosed note describes history of sitter.
Gerhard Caeser, Catharina Engle and Yohanna Traub
General note
Three figures, full length, male and female seated, younger female standing wearing plaid dress and earrings; male figure in Napoleonic pose and wearing a dark foulard around collar and rings, seated female wearing lace covering on hair, rings and brooch.
General note
Copper verso.
John McComb Jr., 1853/00/00
General note
Male figure, front view, white hair, wrinkled face, white shirt and collar, clean shaven.
General note
Label reads: "John McComb in his 90th Year - Architect of the City Hall"
Unidentified Male
General note
Male figure, front view, looking off to left of camera, wearing black jacket, black vest, black neckerchief with cross necklace, glasses.
Mrs. Millard Fillmore
General note
Female figure, seated, wearing white bonnet, curls, white blouse, sitting half profile.
General note
Card catalog states that sitter is wife of President Fillmore.
Peter Cooper
General note
Male figure, 3/4-length, with goatee, sideburns, white shirt and collar, and dark bow tie, wearing octagonal eyeglasses with dual lenses.
40 New-York Historical Society Staff Members (Contemporary Group Portrait) [Shlaer, Robert], 10/22/1989
General note
Group of 40 male and female figures standing on sidewalk in front of New-York Historical Society next to building.
General note
Dale Neighbors standing towards back center with moustache.
Mrs. John P. Schermerhorn (Louise P. Williamson), Mrs. William H. Avirell (Mary Shute Williamson) and Col. Robert P. Williamson
General note
Two female figures and one male figure, male is seated wearing uniform on Civil War officer, Grand Army of the Republic, female standing center and female seated wearing identical dresses with fringe, bows at neck, brooches, white lace collars.
General note
Sitters are daughters of Col. Robert P. Williamson.
Volney Barstow Palmer
General note
Male figure seated profile, cane in left hand, right elbow on top of chair and right forefinger on cheek, wearing Ben Franklin style eyeglasses, clean-shaven, watch chain on vest.
Mrs. Abram Stevens Hewitt (Sarah Amelia Cooper) and Amelia Bowman Hewitt (Mrs. J.O. Green)
General note
Double portrait, female adult with infant on her lap, seated, checked dress buttoned up to neck with brooch, baby wearing white gown.
Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield [Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896], [ca1843-1869]
General note
3/4-length portrait of male figure, front view, seated with book on his lap opened and his right hand resting on pages, wearing white shirt and high collar, white bow tie, clean-shaven.
General note
Possible donor (Mary T. McLean) is granddaughter of sitter; sitter was pastor of the 7th Presbyterian Church and of the North Church, New York.
Jane A. Hall, George H. Morris and John T. Morris [Williamson, Charles H.], [ca1844-1885]
General note
Group portrait, adult female holding infant on lap and young boy standing beside her has curls and plaid cape, adult wearing bonnet with sash under chin, infant wearing off-the-shoulder dress with flower pattern edging.
Unidentified Female [Henning & Eymann]
General note
Female figure seated wearing black dress with white collar and cuffs, rings, brooch, earrings, hair braided and parted in middle, her left arm resting on table with checked blanket, right hand on lap, front view.
General note
Image based on painting entitled, "Madonna della Sedia" by Raphael.
Joel Squier
General note
Male figure, head turned 3/4 to his right, clean shaven, wearing high white collar, black bow tie, white shirt, black coat and vest.
General note
Sitter was Troy Conference Methodist Member?
Joel Squier
General note
Male figure, front view, half-length, clean shaven, wearing high white collar, white shirt, dark coat and vest, wrinkles on face.
General note
Sitter was Troy Conference Methodist; last name may be spelled "Squire".
Mrs. Charles D. Miller
General note
Female figure standing profile, full length, wearing black hat with ribbon under chin, black fur collar, black coat and skirt, gloves
Statue of Thomas Jefferson (or Unidentified Male)
General note
Statue of Thomas Jefferson with arms in air and material draped over his right arm, wearing long coat and vest underneath, building in background.
General note
Statue is identified as possibly being in Virginia.
Rev. Jos. Newton Mulford
General note
Male figure, front view, hair parted on side, white collar and black clerical robe, clean shaven,
General note
Card catalog states that accompanying note reads: Think this is F.M.N.'s Uncle Joseph Mulford"
Mrs. Aaron Belknap Sr. [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
3/4-length portrait of elderly female, seated wearing white bonnet with long white ties, and white cuffs on sleeves of dress.
General note
Mother of Aaron B. Belknap
Rev. Dr. William R. Williams
General note
Male figure, half-length, head turned slightly to his left, clean shaven, white collar and shirt, black bow tie, dark coat and vest.
General note
Accompanying note states that sitter was pastor of Amity Street Baptist Church from 1832.
Washington Irving [Plumbe, John, Jr., 1809-1857], ca1856/00/00 (?)
General note
Male figure face 3/4 front, wearing white shirt with black jacket, vest and neckerchief; see accompanying note for possible history of this image.
Unidentified Female [Root, S.; Root, M.A.]
General note
Female figures seated wearing white dress with black shawl, hair pulled back in bun, 1/4 profile, right elbow leaning on back of chair, her left hand holding hat on lap, vines and column in background, cheek propped on her right hand.
Unidentified
2 Unidentified Male Web Family Members or Friends, 1 Unidentified Female Web Family Member or Friend and 1 Unidentified Young Female Web Family Member or Friend [Cathan], [1843-1850]
General note
Young girl standing far left with arm around shoulder of seated adult male, girl wearing bows in hair, light short-sleeved blouse, netted pocket or purse, seated adult male holding hand of young girl, wearing bow tie, dark jacket and pants, white shirt, h
John Romeyn Brodhead, 1848/00/00 (?)
General note
3/4-length portrait of a male in naval officer's uniform, carrying sword on his left side, front face.
General note
Case stamped "American Daguerreotype Institution 433 West Strand"; note enclosed to "Harriet" (sister) dated June 13th, 1848--"Dearest Harriet- They tell me this is a likeness. I trust it will at all events serve to recall the looks of your afft. [affe
William Whitlock and Mrs. Eliza H. Scott Whilock
General note
Male and female figure seated, male wearing black jacket and vest, black neckerchief, white shirt and high white collar, chain on vest, clean shaven, his left arm around shoulders of female, female figure wearing patterned black dress with white cuffs and
Samuel Gray Ward [White, E.]
General note
Male figure wearing black jacket, black bow tie, white shirt, gray hair, sideburns, black velvet on collar.
Reverend James S. Cannon [Haas]
General note
Male figure, seated, full length, with top hat and clay pipe on table, wearing long boots, white collar and clerical robe.
General note
Enclosed note identifies sitter and information relative to photographer, and also states: "see Corwin's Manual of the Reformed Church of American, 3rd edition, facing page 206".
Peter Cooper, Sarah Amelia Cooper (Hewitt), Edward Cooper and Mrs. Peter Cooper (Sarah Bedell)
General note
2 figures seated on bench, 2 standing; younger female in plaid dress with belt and ruffles; young male in bow tie and paisley vest; seated male has eyeglasses with dual lenses and long chain around neck; seated female in bonnet and wearing eyeglasses.
General note
Card catalog states that Sarah Amelia and Edward Cooper are daughter and son of Peter and Sarah Bedell Cooper; Sarah Amelia married Abraham S. Hewitt in 1855.
Mr. & Mrs. August Belmont and Isabelle Perry [Haas, P.], 1852/00/00
General note
Group portrait, 3 figures (two females seated one male standing); male is bearded and wearing high white collar, black bow tie, white shirt, vest with chain, and coat; both females are assorted jewelry and gloves.
Glorvina Rossell Storm (Mrs. Samuel V. Hoffman)
General note
Female figure seated with right arm resting on table, hands clasped, long curls on either side of head, lace shawl, rings and brooch, flower patterned dress.
Edith Parker, Ellen Grenville Parker, Mary Ann Parker and Willard Parker [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
Four figures, one adult seated and one young girl seated, young girl standing to right of adult and young boy to left of adult, front view, full length, girl on far right wearing plaid dress and beaded bracelet with cross, girl on left wearing polka dotte
Katherine Louise Kimble Knapp and Son (Unidentified Male Knapp Family Male) [Anthony], [1840-1860s]
General note
Male figure standing wearing corduroy vest with black jacket and bow tie, white collar and shirt, sideburns, hair parted on side, female figure seated wearing white lace bonnet, white collar with brooch and black dress with white cuffs, holding closed fan
15 Unidentified Hegeler Family Members or Friends
General note
Fifteen figures (3 adult females seated, one adult male seated, two infants on laps of adults, 5 children standing in front row, three adult males and one adult female standing in rear), dressed in evening wear, including glasses, brooch, earrings, neckla
George Harvey (ca. 1800-1878)
General note
Male figure, front view, left elbow on table with books, right hand holding book, left forefinger on temple, beard under chin, sideburns, wearing dark suit with white shirt and high collar.
General note
Sitter is an English artist who came to America in 1820 and became and Associate member of the National Academy in 1828.
Mrs. Charles DeLoosey [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
General note
3/4-length portrait of standing female with light eyes, wearing decorated white lace bonnet with long white ties in front of dress, and holding folded fan in right hand.
General note
Accompanying book plate states "This was the property of my grandfather Chas. F. DeLoosey" "H.O. Havemeyer" "Picture of my grandmother Mrs. Chas. F. DeLoosey".
Mrs. Marcia (Wheelock) Lucius?, Marian Lucius?, Kate May Lucius and Mr. H. Lucius [Cathan, L.], [1843-1850]
General note
Family Portrait, L-R: Seated female figure wearing patterned dress, ribbon at neck, hair in bun, ring, holding left hand of girl standing adjacent; young girl standing wearing plaid dress, front view; young girl standing wearing plaid off the shoulder dre
Albert Chester Reed, William Reed, James Augustus Reed, John S. Reed, Cordelia Reed, Louisa Beales, Mary Reed, William Reed, Louisa Reed, Charles D. Reed, Angelina Reed [Churchill, R.E.], [1850s-1879]
General note
Group portrait of 5 Males, 5 Females and 1 Young Male Figure, Male clothing includes: white shirts, black jackets, black and white bow ties, hair parted on side, beards and clean-shaven; Female clothing includes: white bonnet, white collars, brooches, dar
2 Unidentified Females
General note
Two female figures, female on left seated wearing black shawl with dark dress, buttons down front, white cuffs and collar, hair parted in middle, hands resting on lap, wearing ring, female on right looking off to upper left of camera, wearing dark dotted
Sarah Raymond Lounsberry, George Betts Selleck, Elizabeth Betts Selleck, Julia Miner Betts, and Elizabeth Lounsberry Miner [Whitehurst Gallery (Washington, D.C.)], 1850/00/00
General note
Four female adult figures and one infant on lap of female on far left, three females are seated and one is standing with her right arm resting on the back of a high back chair in canter, three females on right are wearing bonnets and brooches, one is hold
General note
Accompanying family history included, donor is Grand daughter of Elizabeth Betts Selleck.
Charles White Kellogg, Dennis Dewey Kellogg, Peter Comstock Kellogg, Gertrude Kellogg and Fanny Kellogg [Gurney, Jeremiah], 1853/05/00
General note
5 Figures, L-R: Young girl standing wearing bracelet, rings, bow in hair, dark dress with short sleeves, white collar, hair parted in middle , her right hand on stomach, left hand on shoulder of male figure to her left; Male figure wearing cowboy boots, b
Charles White Kellogg, Dennis Dewey Kellogg, Peter Comstock Kellogg, Gertrude Kellogg and Fanny Kellogg [Gurney, Jeremiah], 1857/02/14
General note
5 Figures, L-R: Young male figure seated wearing gray pants with black jacket and dark plaid bow tie, black vest, white shirt, hair parted on side, his right hand on lap, left arm around young girl to his left; young girl standing wearing short-sleeved of
Peter Comstock [Gurney, Jeremiah], 1853/05/00
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Male figure seated 1/4 profile wearing black jacket and vest, black pants and bow tie, white shirt, white hair parted on side, his left hand resting on armrest of chair next to table.
Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Carp Ellis, Julius Livingston Ellis, Augustus Van Horne Ellis, Samuel Claudius Ellis, Henry Ashfield Ellis, Susan Margaret Ellis, John Stoneacre Ellis [Gurney, Jeremiah], ca1863/00/00
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Group portrait, four men standing behind, two men and two ladies seated; female on right wearing plaid skirt and braids on her head, female on left wearing curls and gloves; males wearing: pocket chain, moustaches, beards, clean-shaven, dark jackets and t
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top row left to right: Augustus, Samuel Claudius, Henry, John; bottom row left to right: Julius, Mrs. Samuel Carp Ellis, Dr. Samuel Carp Ellis, Susan Ellis; 6 Sitters are sons and daughter of Dr. and Mrs. S.C. Ellis; Accompanying note to Ellis Family Coll
Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Carp Ellis, Julius Livingston Ellis, Augustus Van Horne Ellis, Samuel Claudius Ellis, Henry Ashfield Ellis, Susan Margaret Ellis and John Stoneacre Ellis [Gurney, Jeremiah], ca1863/00/00 (?)
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Group portrait, 3 men and 1 girl standing, 3 men and 1 woman seated; females wearing, hair in braid, plaid dress, lace collar, hair in curls, gloves, ruffled skirt; men wearing: dark long coats and ties, moustaches, beards, sideburns, clean-shaven, rings,
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6 Sitters are sons and daughter of Dr. and Mrs. S.C. Ellis; Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
Sue Ellis (Mrs. John Hewston Jr.), Elizabeth Ellis (Mrs. Robert B. Roosevelt) and Julia Livingston Waterbury (Mrs. John Stoneacre Ellis) [Anson, Rufus], [1851-1867]
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Three female figures, full length, front view; center figure wearing brooch at collar with cross, left hand of figure at left on wrist of center figure, right hand of figure on right on shoulder of center figure, all wearing jewelry, gloves, black dresses
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Accompanying note to Ellis Family Collection states family history.
Vigilance Committee Parade, 1855/00/00 ca.
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First Regiment in California, soldiers standing at attention for parade, ships in harbor in background, stores surrounding street with signs visible, onlookers standing by.
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Brig. Gen. John Stoneacre Ellis' First Regiment in California.
Mr. Aaron Belknap and Mrs. Aaron Betts Belknap and Robert Lenox Belknap [Gurney, Jeremiah], [ca1839-1871]
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Group portrait of 3 figures (one young boy standing and an adult male and female sitting); female has white collar and cuffs; seated male has foulard and is clean-shaven; boy has 3/4 coat with tie and sash.
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Photographic enlargement enclosed.
Capt. John H. Downing
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Full-length portrait of man with beard; posed with one hand on hip, one on sword. In Knights Templar uniform - with epaulets painted gold, several ropes draped around shoulders and chest
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Downing, b. 1810, was the Harbor Master of the Port of New York, poses in his Knights Templar uniform
Mrs. A. T. Stewart
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Mid-length portrait of seated woman, with hand held to her chin, wearing ermine scarf and cuffs, cross choker
Lucy Maria Durand
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Lucy Maria Durand (1829-1910), daughter of Asher B. Durand; young girl facing slightly left, with curled hair
Joshua Brookes
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Male figure, front view, wearing black jacket and vest, white neckerchief, white hair, clean shaven, 1/2 length, wrinkled face.
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Accompanying image: Martha Moore Brookes.
Martha Moore Brookes
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Female figure, front view, wearing eyeglasses, white lace bonnet, white neckerchief, black lace dress, brooch at neck, hair parted in middle and pulled back, wrinkled face.
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Accompanying image: Joshua Brookes.
Thomas Cole (1801-1848) [Mathew Brady (1823-1896)]
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Bust-length frontal portrait, facing slightly right, sitter wearing drape or cape and high white collar, distinctive hairstyle with curl at temple
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Accession # 20031105
Unidentified infant
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seated infant on chair, wearing dress, with arms held up at sides
Unidentified young woman [Rees & Co.]
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Young woman setaed, wearing dress with floral pattern and large lace collar and cuffs. Holds lace gloves in her lap. Also wearing large bracelet and brooch.
Unidentified miniature portrait of female
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Painted miniature portrait; shows unidentified female, bust-length, facing slightly left, with hair piled on her head and tall lace collar, hand-painted pink cheeks, and wearing circular earrings
Unidentified painting of man
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formal painting, bust-length, of man turned to the left, facing front. Sitter wears a high jacket collar and a high white ascot-style tie
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Note with the daguerreotype says "the original painting is in the Museum Collection"
Unidentified young girl
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Bust-length portrait of a young girl with hand-tinted cheeks, with high white color and large brooch
Unidentified young girl
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Half-length portrait of adolescent girl, facing front with her right hand resting on a table prop, left hand at her waist, wearing intricatley printed dress, long necklace ahngs to waist, long dark curled hair, pulled up at back
Unidentified young man [Kertson]
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Half-length portrait, facing front, with high white collar and shirtfront, trimmed goatee
Anne Mott (Mrs. Walter Franklin)
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half-length, woman seated, resting right hand on table, hands clasped in lap; wearing embroidered dress and amtching cape, with hand-colored striped red and white tie around neck secured with clasp, hair in braid wrapped around back of head
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title from label on back of case
Unidentified man [Anson]
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Half-length portrait, man setaed with hands folded over midriff, trimmed beard and slight smile, high white collar, with bowtie, vest and jacket
Philip Porcher and his roommate Graham, 1852
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Shows two roommates from the Naval Academy, including Philip Porcher, who later entered the Confederate Navy (image was originally part of the Naval History Society Collection)
Theodore Hudson Benedict and Harvey Weed Benedict, ca 1853
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Hand-tinted portrait of two brothers, approximately 4 and 1 years old; gift of Anne Andrus Grady
John Dix?, undated
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Older man with beard