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| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Shaker Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Shaker Communities | | | | Dates: | 1860-1920 | | | | Abstract: | The Shakers were a religious communal society founded and originally led by Mother Ann Lee, who came to America from England in 1774. By 1826 communities were established throughout New England and the Midwest, as well as in Georgia and Florida. In 1911 Wallace H. Cathcart, Director of the Western Reserve Historical Society, began collecting Shaker memorabilia. |b See finding aid for complete history of the Shakers. The collection consists of ambrotypes; tintypes; photographs, including stereographs, carte de visites, and cabinet cards; postcards (black and white and color), negatives, and prints. Images include individual and group portraits of members of various Shaker communities and views of buildings, farms, work scenes, interiors, and general scenes depicting life at Shaker communities in the United States. Communities depicted include Alfred, Maine; Canterbury, New Hampshire; Enfield, Connecticut; Enfield, New Hampshire; Hancock, Massachusetts; Harvard, Massachusetts; Mt. Lebanon, New York; Sabbathday Lake, Maine, South Union, Kentucky; Union Village, Ohio; Watervliet, New York; Whitewater, Ohio; Groveland, New York; North Union, Ohio; Pleasant Hill, Kentucky; Shirley, Massachusetts; Tyringham, Massachusetts; Union Village, Ohio; White Oak, Georgia; and various mixed and unidentified communities. Most photographs are identified. | | | | Call #: | PG 077 | | | | Extent: | 4.70 linear feet (12 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Cabinet photographs. | Carte de visite photographs. | Collective settlements -- United States -- Photographs. | Shaker architecture -- United States -- Photographs. | Shaker women -- United States -- Photographs. | Shakers -- United States -- Photograph collections. | Stereoscopic views.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Devereux Family Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Devereux Family | | | | Dates: | 1860-1920 | | | | Abstract: | John Devereux was a sea captain of Marblehead, Massachusetts. John H. Devereux was a Civil War officer, engineer, railroad executive, and philanthropist, of Cleveland, Ohio. Henry K. Devereux was an engineer, real estate agent, industrialist, philanthropist, and harness-horse fancier, of Cleveland. The collection consists of five albums, unmounted photographs, and stereographs relating to the life and interests of various Devereux family members of Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to many individual portraits of Devereux family members and friends, the collection includes group portraits of the Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery; various coaching groups; gatherings at North Randall and Wickliffe, Ohio; and horses, drivers, and harness racing. Included are stereographs (ca. 1890-1910) of the Devereux farm in the South, the Medina County, Ohio, fair (1910), and the North Randall, Ohio race track. | | | | Call #: | PG 061 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Devereux family -- Photograph collections. | Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery -- Photograph collections. | Cabinet photographs. | Carte de visite photographs. | Harness racehorses -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Harness racing -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Racetracks (Horse racing) -- Ohio -- North Randall -- Photographs. | Fairs -- Ohio -- Medina County -- Photographs. | Stereoscopic views.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Levi T. Scofield Family Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Scofield, Levi T. Family | | | | Dates: | 1860-1900 | | | | Abstract: | Levi T. Scofield was an architect in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to designing several asylums for the insane in Ohio, the North Carolina State Penitentiary, the reformatory at Mansfield, Ohio, the Schofield Building in downtown Cleveland, private residences, and public schools; he was the architect and chief proponent of the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, located on Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of of photographs, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, stereoviews, sketches, cabinet card photographs, glass mound prints, and albums, of members of the Scofield family of Cleveland, Ohio. It includes many architectural and building views, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, and some novelty photographs. | | | | Call #: | PG 097 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Scofield, Levi T. | Scofield family -- Photograph collections. | Cuyahoga County Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs. | Architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Architects -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Cabinet photographs. | Carte de visite photographs. | Tintype. | Stereoscopic views.
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