Finding aid for the Harper Family Photographs


Repository: Western Reserve Historical Society
Creator: Harper Family
Title: Harper Family Photographs
Dates: 1863-1925
Extent: 0.20 linear feet (1 container)
Abstract: The collection consists of loose contents of one album including carte de visite, tintype, and unmounted photographs of members of the Harper, Dibell, and Hemler families of Painesville, Ashtabula, and Geneva, Ohio; and Pennsylvania, New York, Wisconsin, and Illinois.
PG Number PG 219
Location: closed stacks
Language: The records are in English

Scope and Content

The Harper Family Photographs, ca. 1863-1925, consist of loose contents of one album including carte de visite, tintype, and unmounted photographs of members of the Harper, Dibell, and Hemler families of Painesville, Ashtabula, and Geneva, Ohio; and Pennsylvania, New York, Wisconsin, and Illinois. The collection includes 48 black and white photographs that measure 2.5 x 4 inches and smaller.


Statement of Arrangement

The collection has been retained in original order.

Restrictions on Access

None.

Related Material

The researcher should also consult MS 3231 Harper Family Papers; MS 3316 Ada Watterson Yerkes Family Papers; PG 25 Harper Family Photograph Albums; PG 27 Norton Family Photographs; and PG 178 Ada Watterson Yerkes Family Photograph Albums.

Separated Material

One daguerreotype has been removed to the Cased Images Collection (#394).

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects:

Carte de visite photographs.
Dibell family -- Photograph collections.
Harper family -- Photograph collections.
Hemler family -- Photograph collections.
Tintype.

Preferred Citation

[Container ___, Folder ___ ] PG 219 Harper Family Photographs, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

Acquisition Information

Transferred from Hale Farm and Village by Siegfried Guerling in 1980.

Detailed Description of The Collection

Harper Family Photographs ca. 1863-1925

Box
1 Unidentified woman (tintype); Unidentified man, Painesville, Ohio (carte de visite); Unidentified woman, Painesville, Ohio (carte de visite); Unidentified child, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (carte de visite); Unidentified child, Geneva, Ohio (carte de visite); Charlie D. Dibell, Joliet, Illinois (carte de visite), 1885; Unidentified child, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (carte de visite); Unidentified Bristol, Pennsylvania (carte de visite); Unidentified child (unmounted photographs); Unidentified child, Bristol, Pennsylvania (carte de visite); Unidentified man with child (unmounted photographs); Unidentified child (tintype); Unidentified woman with child (unmounted photograph); Unidentified woman, Painesville, Ohio (carte de visite): Unidentified woman, Painesville, Ohio (carte de visite); Unidentified woman, Painesville, Ohio (carte de visite); Unidentified woman, Painesville, Ohio (carte de visite); Dee _____ (unmounted photograph); Unidentified child (unmounted photograph); Unidentified man (tintype); Unidentified woman, Painesville, Ohio (carte de visite); Unidentified man, Chicago, Illinois (carte de visite); Unidentified woman (unmounted photograph); Unidentified woman with child (unmounted photograph); Mrs. Ruth Hemler (?), Goshen, New York (carte de visite); Unidentified woman (tintype); Julia L. Dibell (carte de visite); Unidentified man, Geneva, Ohio (carte de visite); Unidentified woman, Ashtabula, Ohio(carte de visite); Unidentified woman (tintype); Unidentified man, Joliet, Illinois (carte de visite); Unidentified woman, Joliet, Illinois (carte de visite); L. P. Harper, Beloit, Wisconsin (carte de visite), ca. 1863; Unidentified woman (carte de visite); Unidentified man/soldier (carte de visite); Dorrance Dibell, Joliet, Illinois (carte de visite); Julia Dibell, Chicago, Illinois (carte de visite); Unidentified man, Rochester, New York (carte de visite); Unidentified woman, Cortland, New York (carte de visite), ca. 1863; Unidentified man, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (carte de visite); Unidentified woman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (carte de visite); Unidentified woman, Yorkville, Illinois (carte de visite); Unidentified man, Yorkville, Illinois (carte de visite); Unidentified man (carte de visite); Unidentified child, Joliet, Illinois (carte de visite); Unidentified woman (carte de visite); and Homer Harper (copy of newspaper photograph) ca. 1863-1925