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Cyanotypes (photographic prints)

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Blue-toned photographic prints produced by the blueprint process, not including reproductive prints of architectural or other technical drawings; for these, use "blueprints" or "blueline prints."

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Amateur exterior views, 1899 - 1902

 File — Box 3: [Barcode: BG 3], Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This sub-series demonstrates the centrality of Johnson Chapel to Amherst College, both as a physical space and as a symbolic one. It contains 19th and 20th century renovation records, early 20th century maintenance and repair records, fundraising correspondence and project records for chapel organs, and schedules and student petitions concerning the tower clock and bells. Photographs document the building exterior from about 1860 through 2005. Interior views show late 19th century...
Dates: 1899 - 1902
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Amherst College Buildings and Grounds Collection / Series 1: Campus Buildings / Sub-series D: Johnson Chapel (built 1826-1827)

Bowles, Samuel V, Sherman H. and cousins, circa 1898-1900

 File — Box 44, Folder: 37
Scope and Contents

[Pocket Kodak] and small cyanotypes of the Bowles brothers and their mother at the beach (Manomet, etc.). Includes cyanotypes of Mary S. King (Polly) and other cousins. See mounted set of photographs from this era and brown softcover album, both in section 2.

Dates: circa 1898-1900
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Bowles-Hoar Family Papers / Series 19: Cased Images and Photographs / Sub-series C: Photographs -- Bowles Family / Section 1: Bowles Family and Related Families

Bowles, Sherman H., 1900 July -1902 May

 File — Box 18, Folder: 49
Scope and Contents

Letters to brother Sherman from camp. February 1902 letter contains a cyanotype of people at Asquam Farm in Holderness, New Hampshire. Sam has identified all the subjects.

Dates: 1900 July -1902 May
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Bowles-Hoar Family Papers / Series 1-9: Bowles Family / Series 5: Samuel Bowles V / Sub-series D: Samuel Bowles V: Outgoing Correspondence to Parents and Brother

Class of 1898 - Charles Stephen Hager, 1895-1938

 Item — Volume 99: [Barcode: Scrapbooks 99]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 1: Personal Scrapbooks - consists of scrapbooks created by individual Amherst College students and alumni. The majority of the scrapbooks in this series were created during the compiler's time as a student at Amherst. A small number of scrapbooks in this series have an Amherst student or alumnus as their subject and were created by an unknown compiler. Scrapbooks are arranged chronologically by class year.

Dates: 1895-1938
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Amherst College Scrapbooks Collection / Series 1: Personal Scrapbooks

Dog labeled "Prince", undated

 File — Box 21, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sub-series A: Edward Hitchcock (AC 1849) - Class Album Portraits - contains more than a dozen distinct images of Hitchcock and many albumen prints. Most of the portraits were taken for yearly Class Albums compiled for the students at Amherst College and for the Olio, the Amherst College yearbook. Sometimes the images were used for several years. All the images are of Hitchcock as an adult. The earliest, from 1862, was taken one year after Hitchcock returned to Amherst College to teach in...
Dates: undated
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Edward (AC 1849) and Mary Judson Hitchcock Family Papers / Series 8: Edward Hitchcock (AC 1849) - Images / Sub-series G: Miscellaneous

Hitchcock outdoors in snow, [circa 1890s-1910]

 File — Box 21, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sub-series A: Edward Hitchcock (AC 1849) - Class Album Portraits - contains more than a dozen distinct images of Hitchcock and many albumen prints. Most of the portraits were taken for yearly Class Albums compiled for the students at Amherst College and for the Olio, the Amherst College yearbook. Sometimes the images were used for several years. All the images are of Hitchcock as an adult. The earliest, from 1862, was taken one year after Hitchcock returned to Amherst College to teach in...
Dates: [circa 1890s-1910]
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Edward (AC 1849) and Mary Judson Hitchcock Family Papers / Series 8: Edward Hitchcock (AC 1849) - Images / Sub-series F: Edward Hitchcock (AC 1849) - General Images

Hitchcock outdoors in summer, [circa 1890s-1910]

 File — Box 21, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sub-series A: Edward Hitchcock (AC 1849) - Class Album Portraits - contains more than a dozen distinct images of Hitchcock and many albumen prints. Most of the portraits were taken for yearly Class Albums compiled for the students at Amherst College and for the Olio, the Amherst College yearbook. Sometimes the images were used for several years. All the images are of Hitchcock as an adult. The earliest, from 1862, was taken one year after Hitchcock returned to Amherst College to teach in...
Dates: [circa 1890s-1910]
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Edward (AC 1849) and Mary Judson Hitchcock Family Papers / Series 8: Edward Hitchcock (AC 1849) - Images / Sub-series F: Edward Hitchcock (AC 1849) - General Images

Laurens, Katharine, and Julius Seelye, circa 1895-1900

 File — Box 3, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 3: Seelye Family Photographs, circa 1870-1960 - includes photographs of the young family of William and Alice Seelye, the parents of Laurens, Elizabeth, and Julius. It also documents Alice’s Clarke and Brown family lines, as well as some of the Bixler cousins of the Seelye family.

Dates: circa 1895-1900
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / The Williams-Chambers-Seelye-Franck Papers ("The Franck Papers") / Series 3: Seelye Family Photographs / Sub-series A: Early Seelye Family Photographs

Laurens, Katharine, and Julius Seelye, circa 1900

 File — Box 3, Folder: 13
Dates: circa 1900
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / The Williams-Chambers-Seelye-Franck Papers ("The Franck Papers") / Series 3: Seelye Family Photographs / Sub-series A: Early Seelye Family Photographs

"Pocket Kodak" cyanotypes (Bowles family), circa 1898-1900

 Item — Box 41, Box: Small box
Scope and Contents

Small box of mounted "Pocket Kodak" and cyanotypes showing Samuel V, Sherman, and Elizabeth Hoar Bowles on vacation at the beach in Massachusetts (Manoment, Hyannis Port, etc.). Includes images of other family members -- Baldwin, King, and Munroe children et al. See also the brown soft cover album (Album 5) for photos from this group and era.

Dates: circa 1898-1900
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Bowles-Hoar Family Papers / Series 19: Cased Images and Photographs / Sub-series B: Photograph Albums and Sets / Section 2: Bowles-Hoar family albums

Seelye family (William, Alice, Laurens, and Katharine), circa 1893

 File — Box 1, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents

Cyanotype of parents Alice and William, and their two young children, Laurens and Katharine.

Dates: circa 1893
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Talcott W. Seelye (AC 1944) Family Papers / Series 1: Chambers and Seelye Families: Mixed Materials / Sub-series B: James-Clarke-Seelye Family

Skillings, Susan Clapp Hills - from 1904 Smith Class Book and others, [1904], undated

 File — Box 25, Folder: 14-15
Scope and Contents note From the Series: SERIES 9: PHOTOGRAPHS, c. 1873-1930, n.d. contain a wealth of visual information about the Hills family and friends. Many of the photographs, however, remain unidentified or undated. Forms include glassplates, metal plate and paper prints, and one folder of miscellaneous negatives. The photographs have been arranged into four subseries: Portraits, Group Photographs, Subjects and Scrapbook Photographs. Portraits have been divided into identified photographs, including many members of the...
Dates: [1904], undated
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Hills Family Papers / Series 9: Photographs / Zimmerman, Marguerite / Subjects: Identified and Unidentified / Miscellaneous Photographs by Type / People

Students on their way to the train to say goodbye, [1898 January?]

 File — Box 21, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Hitchcock addressing crowd from train car steps, when students escorted him to train for trip to Mediterranean.

Dates: [1898 January?]
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Edward (AC 1849) and Mary Judson Hitchcock Family Papers / Series 8: Edward Hitchcock (AC 1849) - Images / Sub-series F: Edward Hitchcock (AC 1849) - General Images

Virginia Beach trip, undated

 File — Box 26, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Series: Caroline J. Hitchcock, known as Cannie, was Edward and Mary Judson Hitchcock's oldest daughter. She attended Mount Holyoke College and was a teacher by profession. She lived in Meriden, Connecticut. Sub-series A: Personal Affairs - contains miscellaneous materials relating to Caroline, including a 40th birthday tribute; two speeches about organizing schools; an 1878 tintype of Caroline with A.G. Young and Miss Beaman in a chemistry laboratory (identified as Amherst College); and...
Dates: undated
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Edward (AC 1849) and Mary Judson Hitchcock Family Papers / Series 13: Caroline J. Hitchcock / Sub-series A: Personal Affairs

Willard L. Thorp and family members, 1901-1903, undated

 File — Box 11, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The collection's photographs provide a nearly comprehensive photographic document of Thorp's career. They include professional portraits from the 1930s and 1940s as well as official and unofficial photographs of Thorp's work with the United Nations in the 1960s. This subseries also includes numerous family and ancestral photographs in addition to many unlabeled snapshots from the Thorps' travels. Photographs of the Amherst Class of 1920 (from 1920 and 1970) are also part of this...
Dates: 1901-1903; undated
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Willard L. (AC 1920) and Clarice Brows Thorp Papers / Series 1: Willard L. Thorp / Sub-series D: Photographs

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