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Photograph albums

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Culmer and Wells family photographs, approximately 1880-1910

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8787 Series 4
Scope and Contents

Red velvet photograph album contains 78 Culmer family photographs. Includes a variety of Newcomb, Morris and Co., and C. R. Savage cabinet cards or CDVs (carte de visites), as well as some from San Francisco photographers. Dated apporximately 1880-1910. The second is a Culmer/Wells family photo album. This contains 23 cabinet cards. Many photographs in both albums are unlabled.

Dates: approximately 1880-1910

Henry L. A. Culmer art papers, approximately 1880-1914

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8787 Series 1
Scope and Contents Contains roughly 300 photographs, newspaper clippings, broadsides, and prints containing artwork by Culmer. In the second half of the album, Culmer notes the work's number in his master inventory, as well as the name of the individual who purchased it. Material dated approximately 1880-1914. The record paintings of H. L. A. Culmer, notebook, is a numbered list of paintings 382-1091, including the date finished, title, medium, size, price, date sold and to whom, remarks, and number. Material...
Dates: approximately 1880-1914