Matthews Family Photographic Album

Item — Container: Manuscript Shelves

Identifier: PA 2020.0002

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Album contains a selection of portraits of members of the Matthews family, as well as portraits of members of their extended family with the surnames Hemingway, Hunt, Lane, Morehouse, Newcomb, Van Leuvan, Marquot, Parker, Delamater, and Reynolds. Several photos are of men from the Vicinity of Windham who may have died during the American Civil War.

Dates

Majority of material found in 1860-1890

Extent

25 Sheets (Photographic Album) : Photographic portraits in various card-sized tintype and print variations mounted in cardboard album pages, bound in leather-covered boards with brass clasps. Spine reads "Album" in gold leaf. ; 6 x 5.5 inches approx.