Call Number:

PH-00199

Collection Name:

Sarah Williams Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

198 photographs

Span Dates:

circa 1860-circa 1940

Description:

The collection consists of materials, which were withdrawn from the Frederic Allen Williams Papers and Photography Collection (PH-00376), that relate to William's aunt, Sarah Williams, and date from circa 1860 to 1936. Included are portraits from Sarah Williams’ childhood in Albany, New York, her college days at Wellesley, and her career as a teacher. The collection also contains portraits of her college classmates, portraits of family members (including several of F. A. Williams as a young boy), snapshots of family outings and vacations, and photographs taken and purchased during her travels to Europe. Purchased materials include a package of collotypes of Scotland titled Twenty Views of the Land of Scott, and a film strip titled Pendleton Round-Up Series I (Rock Island, IL: Tru-Vue, Inc., 1936) that contains photographs by Ralph Vincent of the 1932 and 1936 Pendleton (Oregon) Round-Ups. Photographic formats represented in the collection include: cartes-de-visite (51), cabinet cards (43), gelatin silver prints (23), tintypes (21), collotypes (20), cyanotypes (17), albumen prints (9), ambrotypes (7), platinum prints (3), silhouettes (2), daguerreotypes (1), and film strips (1). Photographers and photographic studios represented include: C. G. Bacon, A. E. Beckwith, Brady National Portrait Co., Brown (of Albany, NY), R. E. Churchill, G. W. Conkey, W. R. Cross, C. M. Dempsie, Luke C. Dillon, G. W. Floyd, Frederick B. Johnson & Co., Gilbert & Bacon, Glines, Hardy & Van Arnam, Hargrave (of New York), Hendee, W. Hoffert, Horner, W. A. Howe, T. W. Ingersoll, Lewis Studio, Pirie MacDonald, McDonald & Sterry, Miller (of Birmingham, CT), Lloyd, William Nims, Notman Photographic Co., Partridge Studios, Rabineau & Schoonmaker, Reed & McKenney, J. J. Reilly (a.k.a., Wood’s Photographic Gallery), Sarony, C. C. Schoonmaker, G. Waldon Smith, Carl Thiel, Tuttle’s Gallery, Vail Bros., H. M. Wells, and Wm. W. Wood (a.k.a., Wood’s Gem Gallery).

Location(s):

Williams, S., Box (960:0001:0001-0100; 960:0001:0260-0357)
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See Also:

Sarah Williams Stereographs Photography Collection

Frederic Allen Williams Papers and Photography Collection