Sturgis Library Archives

Genealogy and Personal Manuscripts Collection

Lowell Family Photographic Album, 1860s

MS. 44

Extent: 1 item (album with 48 photographs)

Scope and Contents note: Leather bound photographic album of identified family members and others associated with the family. Inscribed in pen on verso of front cover “Gift from S.L. Lohier/Xmas 1867.” 48 photographs are all 4 x 3 size cabinet cards taken by photographic studios in in the 1860s. Handwritten index in front, contemporary to the album, identifies all the portrait subjects, here transcribed. Many of the photographs are of children, especially Olivia B. Lowell and Lucy Lowell. Prominent adults included are Mrs. and Mrs. and their brother (?) Judge James A. Lowell.

Access: unrestricted. Credit Sturgis Library Archives for publication.

Acquisition: Gift of , March 21, 1990.

Processed by: Judy Farrar, 2006.

List of photographs:

1. Olivia B. Lowell (child) 18. George E., Lucy and Susan C. 2. Miss Lucy Lowell (in lap) Lowell (children) 3. Olivia B. Lowell 19. Elsie Rodman (as an infant) 4. Mrs. William Lohier 20. Oliver W. Peabody 5. Judge John Lowell (in uniform) 21. George B. Emerson 6. Mr. Oliver W. Peabody 22. John Lowell (brother of Judge James 7. Mrs. Oliver W. Peabody A.) 8. Mrs. Sussex D. Davis 23. Miss Lohier (as a child) 9. Mrs. George McClellan 24. Herbert Lyman (as a child) 10. Olivia B. Lowell (as an older child) 25. Eleanor Lohier (as a child) 11. Olivia B. Lowell (as an older child) 26. Miss Lucy Lowell (in lap) 12. Olivia B. Lowell (as an older child) 27. Mrs. John Lowell (with Judge James 13. Olivia B. Lowell (as an older child) A. in lap) 14. Judge James A. Lowell (as a child) 28. Thomas Lee 15. Mr. George .B. Emerson (with Miss 29. Thomas Lee Lucy Lowell in lap) 30. John Lowell (as a child) 16. Same 31. Mrs. John Lowell 17. Olivia B. and Lucy Lothrop Lowell 32. Edward Harris (as a child)

33. Bessie Harris (as a child) MS. 44 P. 2 34. Bessie Harris (as a child) 35. George E., Lucy and Susan C. Lowell (children) 36. Mrs. Edward Bangs 37. Mrs. Robert H. Gardiner 38. Mrs. Russell Sturgis 39. Mr. James Arnold 40. George Blake (as a child) 41. Francis Blake (as a child) 42. (missing) 43. Edmund Dwight 44. Aunt Sarah Blake 45. Mrs. John Lowell 46. Miss Kingsbury (1st teacher of C. Hill School) 47. (missing) 48. Judge James A. Lowell (as a child) 49. Olivia James (as a child) 50. Mrs. Louis W. Tappan (with infant daughter Mary)