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Series V: Jennings Family

Scope and Contents note

Series V. Jennings Family consists of photographs and albums documenting the family and professional life of Dr. Edward Jennings, including his siblings, parents, and extended family. Formal photographs portray a variety of Jennings and Allen family members. Albums relate to Dr. Jennings' medical career, education, and extracurricular activities at Wesleyan and Columbia Universities. Photographs of Dr. Jennings with ambulances and staff from Fordham and Harlem Hospitals are included. One album pertains to Arthur Bates Jennings, Jr.' s career as an organist; it contains photographs, sheet music of works composed by Jennings, church bulletins and programs for performances. A family album holds informal snapshots of members of the Jennings family in a variety of settings. Oversize photographs at the end are primarily group portraits from hospitals and schools with which Dr. Edward Jennings was associated.

Photographs are arranged in three subseries: photographs, negatives, and albums. Thereunder they are filed alphabetically by sitter or group. Oversize group portraits are filed at the end of the series.

Photographs

Allen, Edward Chauncey, 1858, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Allen, Edward Linsley, 1886, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Allen, George William, Mary and family, 1885-1902, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Allen, John Platt and family, 1885-[1926], undated

Box: 8, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Allen, Mary Constance, [1892]-1897

Box: 8, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Allen, Sarah Hillard Linsley, 1858, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Allen family, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

See also: Oversize, Box 13, Folder 70

Jennings, Arthur Bates (1849-1927), [1890]-1925

Box: 8, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jennings, Arthur B., Jr., [1888]-1930, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jennings, Caroline Allen, 1897, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jennings, Edward Allen--Portraits, 1882-1918, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jennings, Edward Allen--Group portraits, school and professional, 1901-1913

Box: 8, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

See also: Oversize -- Box 13, Folders 64--68

Jennings, Helen Bates, 1886

Box: 8, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jennings Family -- Miscellaneous, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Group Portraits, 1886-1912, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Negatives

Group Portraits, 1911 Mar, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 31-32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

8 x 10 in. negatives

Group Portraits, undated

Box: 9, Folder: 33-41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

3.5 x 4 in. negatives

Portraits, unidentified, undated

Box: 9, Folder: 42-46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

3.5 x 4 in. negatives

Views, miscellaneous, undated

Box: 9, Folder: 47-58 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

3.5 x 4 in. and 5 x 3.5 in. negatives

Original negative envelope, undated

Box: 9, Folder: unknown container (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Albums

Jennings family photographs, [1900-1915]

Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jennings, Arthur B., Jr., 1920-1951, undated

Box: 10, Folder: unknown container (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jennings, Edward Allen [disbound scrapbook pages], [1903-1957]

Box: 11, Folder: 59-63 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Oversize Group Portraits

Columbia University, 1911-1914

Box: 12, Folder: 64 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cushing Academy (Ashburnham, Massachusetts), 1900-1902

Box: 12, Folder: 65 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Harlem Hospital staff, 1914-1916

Box: 12, Folder: 66 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Wesleyan University, 1903

Box: 13, Folder: 67 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unidentified groups, [1903-1915]

Box: 13, Folder: 68 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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