Yale Center for British Art

Title:

[Album of gem tintype portraits].

Published / Created:

[New England], [ca. 1860-1880]

Physical Description:

1 album (20 photographs) : tintype ; 48 x 42 mm.

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
CS71 .H37 1860 Flat
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Martha Lovejoy

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Photographs

Notes:

The album is bound in contemporary gilt-stamped leather, with brass clasp.

Gift of Martha Smith Lovejoy.

Album of 20 gem photographs, ca. 1860-1880, of unidentified members of the Harris, Wright, Chapin, and Osborne families, of New England. Each tintype measures about 2 x 1.5 centimeters, and is framed within an oval reveal, with decorative borders. Some of the portraits have light applications of red hand-coloring.

The album bears no text, but Martha Lovejoy has suggested a list of relatives whom the photographs may depict: Emily Osborne Harris, of Auburn, NY (1853-1940); Frederic Harris (1852-1926), of Springfield, Mass.; Eliza Wright (1830-1911) and David Osborne (1822-1886), also of Auburn; Frederic Harper Harris (1823-1911); Mary Chapin Harris (1847-1890); Martha Bliss; Thomas Harris; Martha Coffin Wright (1806-1875); and John Hall Osborne (1793-1841) and his wife Caroline Buckley, of Rye.

Subject Terms:

Harris family. | Wright family. | Osborne family. | Chapin family. | Photography of families.

Form/Genre:

Gem photographs -- 1860-1880. | Photographs. | Photograph albums. | Tintypes (prints) -- 1860-1880. | Portraits -- 1860-1880.