Photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of tintype portraits of Black Americans
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Col-1022
Content Description
Fifteen tintype portraits of Black Americans by an unknown photographer.
Dates:
circa 1880- circa 1900; Other: Date of Physical Custody
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Photograph album
Collection — Box small col. 49
Identifier: Col-1035
Recollections of a septuaginarian
Collection — Doc-30
Identifier: Doc-30
Scope and Contents
Jonathan Mason's memoirs were “written without any attempt at elegant phraseology or fine writing, but Currente Calamo as his thoughts and remembrances arose to his mind between sundown and dark. For the amusement of his Grandchildren.” Begins with account of his parents' recollections of the Revolution, and his own childhood memories of Boston. Continues with detailed accounts of his friendship with artists and patrons--including Gilbert Stuart, Washington Allston, Horatio Greenough, Thomas...
Dates:
[1866?]-1881
Found in:
Winterthur Library
T.H. Owens photograph album of a Rhode Island textile mill
Collection — Box small col. 50
Identifier: Col-1047
Content Description
Album of photographs by T.H. Owens of operations at an unidentified textile mill in Rhode Island. The images document the full breadth of textile production at the mill, including carding, spinning, loading thread onto bobbins, weaving, quality checks, and packaging of the new fabric. Also included are images of the exterior of the mill and the main office, as well as photos of employees at work throughout the mill.
Dates:
circa 1910
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Wilmington District of the Delaware Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church meeting scrapbook
Collection — Box small col. 50
Identifier: Col-1045
Content Description
A scrapbook documenting the 1964, 1965, 1966, and 1967 meetings of the Wilmington District of the Delaware Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, possibly kept by a member of the Ringgold Chapel A.M.E. Church in Middletown, Delaware. The scrapbook contains photographs, programs from worship services, handwritten notes, a partial expense report, call and response guides from worship services, and typewritten minutes from a meeting of The Evangelistic Cooperative...
Dates:
1964-1967
Found in:
Winterthur Library