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Photo, Print, Drawing American Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Photograph album owned by the Spafford family

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Title

  • American Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Photograph album owned by the Spafford family

Names

  • Various (Photographer)
  • Spafford, Anna T., 1842-1923 (Associated name)

Created / Published

  • Unpublished album, various photographers, ca. 1860-1900

Headings

  • -  Spafford, Horatio G., 1828-1888
  • -  Spafford, Anna T., 1842-1923
  • -  Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899--Portrait
  • -  Vester, Bertha Spafford, 1879-1968
  • -  Spafford, Annie, 1862-1873--Portrait
  • -  Spafford, Margaret (Maggie), 1863-1873--Portrait
  • -  Spafford, Elizabeth (Bessie), 1866-1873--Portrait
  • -  Spafford, Tanetta, 1871-1873--Portrait
  • -  Spafford, Horatio Goertner, 1876-1880--Portrait
  • -  Lorriaux, Emma
  • -  Hedges, Samuel--Portrait
  • -  Lee, Colonel Arthur--Portrait
  • -  Ashley, Kitty Lee--Portrait
  • -  Laurence, Robert Eugene, 1866-1885--Portrait
  • -  Bliss, Philip Paul, 1838-1876--Portrait
  • -  Bliss, Lucy Young, 1835-1876--Portrait
  • -  MacLeod, Anna--Portrait
  • -  Ashley, Margaret--Portrait
  • -  Schick, Conrad, 1822-1901--Portrait
  • -  Manuscripts
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Portraits
  • -  United States -- Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Manuscripts
  • Photographs
  • Portraits

Notes

  • -  19th-century portrait photograph album featuring Horatio Gates Spafford, Anna Spafford, their children, and relatives [including relatives of Margaret Lee, sister of H. G. Spafford], acquaintances, and friends. 48 pp., 142 images. Ca. 1860-1880, bulk 1870s. Captioned in part by hand.
  • -  Images by various portrait photography studios in the United States, France, and Great Britain, including A. E. Dumble, Rochester, N.Y.; Grieg & Co., Rochester, N.Y.; J. H. Kent, photographer, Rochester, N.Y.; Dunshee Bros (Successors to Greig & Co.], 14 State St., Rochester; Langerock Studio, Paris; J. Tourtin Studio, Paris; Hill & Saunders Photographers, Eton.
  • -  Includes portraits of the four Spafford daughters born between 1862 and 1871 who died in the shipwreck of the Ville du Havre in 1873, as well as Spafford son Horatio, 1876-1880; adopted son Robert Eugene (Rob) Laurence, b. 1866, who died in Jerusalem in 1885; Emma Lorriaux, governess to the four Spafford daughters; brother-in-law Col. Arthur Lee; musician P. P. Bliss, composer of the music for "It Is Well With My Soul"; evangelist Rev. Dwight L. Moody; American Consul in Jerusalem Henry Gilman, and Dr. Conrad Schick, designer of the model of the Temple, Jerusalem.

Medium

  • photo album 11 3/4" x 8 3/4" closed

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Part I, Box 1, Folder 1: American Colony in Jerusalem
  • series: Part I: Topical File, 1871-2004

Source Collection

  • American Colony in Jerusalem Collection

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

Digital Id

Online Format

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Chicago citation style:

Various, and Anna T Spafford. American Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Photograph album owned by the Spafford family. United States Illinois Chicago, 1860. Unpublished Album, Various Photographers, to 1900. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/mamcol.001/.

APA citation style:

Various & Spafford, A. T. (1860) American Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Photograph album owned by the Spafford family. United States Illinois Chicago, 1860. Unpublished Album, Various Photographers, to 1900. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mamcol.001/.

MLA citation style:

Various, and Anna T Spafford. American Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Photograph album owned by the Spafford family. Unpublished Album, Various Photographers, to 1900. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mamcol.001/>.