Blakeslee Family Photographic Album

Item — Container: Manuscript Shelves

Identifier: PA 2020.0003

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Album contains a variety of portraits of various families ostensibly from the vicinity of Windham, New York. There are several images of members of the Blakeslee Family along with miscellaneous images of members of the Northrop, Collins, Matthews, Cunningham, Hull, Sagendorph, Reunfolds, Payne, Doolittel, Parks, Warner, Van Wagenor, Holdridge, Strong, Rider, Fenton, Fish, Smith, Dewell, Bascom, Bartholomew, Cole, Austin, Gordon, Baldwin, Avery, Booth, Humphrey, and Brandow families in that order.

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 "Photographs" in gold leaf. Album page block is broken into two sections and partially detached. ; 7.5 x 6 inches approx.