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Claridge and Whipple family album, approximately 1863-1916
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Claridge (Family : Claridge, James Ripley, 1833-1896)
- Title
- Claridge and Whipple family album
- Dates
- approximately 1863-1916 (inclusive)18631916
- Quantity
- 72 photographic prints (1 box) ; sizes vary
- Collection Number
- PH1206
- Summary
- Photographs of James R. Claridge and Fanny Whipple Claridge family members and friends
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
-
Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries' Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials Curator is required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
James Ripley Claridge (February 16, 1833-May 22, 1896) was raised on the sea as his father was a sea captain from Eastport, Maine. Later, Claridge moved to Baltimore, Maryland where he was a junior partner in the Loud and Claridge ship handlers company with his partner Grenville Loud. The company supplied provisions to Union ships during the Civil War. James Claridge married Fanny Rebecca Whipple (February 8, 1838-March 22, 1931), and the family lived in Baltimore until the children grew up and moved to various parts of the U.S. including New Haven, Connecticut; Falls City and Omaha, Nebraska; Boulder, Colorado; Atchison, Kansas; and Seattle, Washington. The children of James and Fanny Claridge included: Frederick Hamilton Claridge (January 8, 1861-December 2, 1938) who married Helen May Castetter; Joseph Berry Claridge (July 1864-June 1935) who married Euphemy M. Forsyth; Alice Minerva Claridge (1865-1942) who married Thomas Swann Waltemeyer; Bertram Whipple Claridge (January 29, 1868-October 20, 1950) who married Estelle Dail; and Grenville Loud Claridge (1872-1910), named after James Claridge's business partner.
After James R. Claridge died in 1896, Fanny Whipple lived at her children's homes in Connecticut and in Seattle. She died in Seattle while living with her daughter, Alice Minerva Claridge Waltemeyer. Alice Waltemeyer had moved to Seattle to live with her daughter Frances Barrett Waltemeyer Ogden Macbride. Frances Macbride was very socially established in the Seattle area. She was president of the Seattle Garden Club, vice president of the Gardens Clubs of America, and board member of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Seattle Civic Opera. Macbride was also a member and president of the Women's University Club and the Sunset Club, and a member of the Standard Grand Opera Company of Seattle and the Ladies Musical Club of the First Presbyterian Church. Frances Macbride's first husband, Harry Coe Ogden, managed the Seattle Baking Company; upon his death, Frances Macbride took over management of the company. She lived in Seattle from 1913 until she moved to Hollywood Farm in Woodinville, Washington with her second husband, Philip Douglas Macbride, in 1943.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Photographs from an album depicting Claridge and Whipple family members and friends. The portraits include extended family of James R. Claridge and Fanny Whipple Claridge. All photographs are formal portraits ranging from the late 1800s to early 1900s. The album was probably assembled by one of the children of James and Fanny Claridge. It is possible the album was given as a gift to Alice Minerva Claridge (daughter of James and Fanny Claridge) in1885 when she married Thomas Waltemeyer and left Baltimore to move west to Kansas.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
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Restrictions on Use
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Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The photographs are arranged in the order of the original album. The item numbers refer to the pages of the album.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Claridge and Whipple Family AlbumReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | item | ||
| 1 | 1a |
James Ripley Claridge
Bachrach & Bro,
Baltimore, Md. (Photographer)
Written on album page: Jas. R. Claridge.
|
between 1875 and 1896 |
| 1 | 1b |
Fanny Rebecca Whipple
Claridge
Perkins, Baltimore,
Md. (Photographer)
|
between 1887 and 1897 |
| 1 | 2a |
Fred H. Claridge
Heyn Photographer,
Omaha, Nebr. (Photographer)
Frederick Hamilton Claridge was the son of James and Fanny
Whipple Claridge.
Written on album page: Fred H. Claridge 35 yrs.
|
between 1895 and 1896 |
| 1 | 2b |
Helen May Castetter
Claridge
Heyn Artistic Photographer, Omaha, Nebr. (Photographer)
May Castetter was the wife of Fred H. Claridge.
Written on album page: May Castetter Claridge 33 yrs.
|
between 1895 and 1896 |
| 1 | 3a | 1881 | |
| 1 | 3b | 1906 | |
| 1 | 4a |
Grenville Loud Claridge
Bachrach & Bro,
Baltimore, Md. (Photographer)
Grenville Claridge was the son of James and Fanny Whipple
Claridge, named after James' business partner, Grenville Loud.
Written on album page: Grenville Claridge 12 yrs.
|
between 1883 and 1884 |
| 1 | 4b |
Thomas S. Waltemeyer
Bachrach & Bro,
Baltimore, Md. (Photographer)
Thomas Waltemeyer was the husband of Alice Minerva Claridge,
daughter of James and Fanny Whipple Claridge.
Written on album page: Thos. S. Waltemeyer- 20 yrs.
|
between 1884 and 1885 |
| 1 | 5a |
Alice Minerva Claridge Waltemeyer
standing beside a dresser mantle piece
Blessing & Kuhn,
Baltimore, Md. (Photographer)
Alice Claridge was the daughter of James and Fanny Whipple
Claridge.
Written on album page: Alice Claridge 18 yrs old.
|
between 1882 and 1883 |
| 1 | 5b |
Alice Minerva Claridge
Waltemeyer
Bachrach & Bro,
Baltimore, Md. (Photographer)
Written on album page: Alice - 20 yrs.
|
between 1884 and 1885 |
| 1 | 6a |
Bertram Whipple Claridge
Bachrach & Bro,
Baltimore, Md. (Photographer)
Bertram Whipple Claridge was the son of James and Fanny Whipple
Claridge.
Written on album page: Bertram Whipple Claridge 15 yrs.
|
1883 |
| 1 | 6b |
Bertram Whipple Claridge
Joseph T. Lowry,
Baltimore, Md. (Photographer)
Written on album page: Bert - 25 yrs.
|
1893 |
| 1 | 7a |
Joseph Berry Claridge
Bachrach & Bro,
Baltimore, Md. (Photographer)
Joseph Berry Claridge was the son of James and Fanny Whipple
Claridge.
Written on album page: Jos. Berry Claridge 25 yrs.
|
between 1889 and 1890 |
| 1 | 7b |
Euphamy M. Forsyth Claridge
Charles O. Smith,
Buffalo, N.Y. (Photographer)
Euphamy Claridge was the wife of Joseph Berry Claridge.
Written on album page: Euphamy Forsyth Claridge 23 yrs.
|
between 1889 and 1890 |
| 1 | 9 | between 1880 and 1890 | |
| 1 | 10a |
Dr. John Tassey Waltemeyer
Emil Scholl,
Philadelphia, Pa. (Photographer)
John Tassey Waltemeyer was the brother of Thomas S. Waltemeyer.
Written on album page: Dr. John Tassey Waltemeyer - 19 yrs.
|
between 1884 and 1885 |
| 1 | 10b |
Mrs. Josephine Barrett Sheppard
Waltemeyer
McLeod, Atchison,
Kans. (Photographer)
Josephine Barrett Waltemeyer was the mother of Thomas S. and
John Tassey Waltemeyer.
Written on album page: Mrs. Josephine Barrett Waltemeyer 48
yrs.
|
between 1889 and 1890 |
| 1 | 11a |
Dr. John Tassey Waltemeyer
N.H. Busey, Baltimore,
Md. (Photographer)
Written on the album page: Dr. John Tassey 20 yrs.
|
between 1885 and 1886 |
| 1 | 11b |
Dr. John Tassey Waltemeyer
A.K.P. Trask,
Philadelphia, Pa. (Photographer)
Written on album page: Dr. John Tassey Waltemeyer 22 yrs.
|
between 1887 and 1888 |
| 1 | 12a |
Thomas Ashburner
Richard Walzl,
Baltimore, Md. (Photographer)
Written on album page: Thos. Ashburner.
|
between 1880 and 1889 |
| 1 | 12b |
Emily Ashburner
William Getz, Baltimore,
Md. (Photographer)
Emily Ashburner was the sister of Thomas Ashburner.
|
between 1880 and 1889 |
| 1 | 13a | between 1881 and 1892 | |
| 1 | 13b |
Elsie Lombard
Benjamin J. Falk, New
York, N.Y. (Photographer)
Elsie Lombard was a cousin of Alice Claridge Waltemeyer. She was
the daughter of Anna Snow Claridge (sister to James Claridge) and George
Washington Lombard. Elsie Lombard was an actress who married a sports
executive, John Tomlinson Brush.
Written on the photograph: Affectionately yours, Elsie
Lombard.
|
between 1884 and 1892 |
| 1 | 14a |
Marcus Morton Whipple
Gurley & Harris,
Utica, N.Y. (Photographer)
Marcus Whipple was the brother of Fanny Whipple Claridge.
Written on album page: Uncle Marcus Whipple.
|
between 1870 and 1879 |
| 1 | 14b |
Margaret Anna Ferguson
Walter E. Chickering,
Boston, Mass. (Photographer)
Margaret Ferguson was the wife of Marcus Whipple.
Written on album page: Aunt Maggie (his wife).
|
between 1870 and 1879 |
| 1 | 15a |
Julia Ludington
F.A. Bowman, New Haven,
Conn. (Photographer)
|
between 1875 and 1881 |
| 1 | 15b |
Julia Ludington
F.A. Bowman, New Haven,
Conn. (Photographer)
|
between 1884 and 1893 |
| 1 | 16a |
Oliver Graves
Whitney and Son,
Cambridge, Mass. (Photographer)
Oliver Graves was the husband of Elizabeth Willet Whipple, the
sister of Fanny Rebecca Whipple Claridge.
Written on album page: Uncle Oliver Graves.
|
between 1872 and 1879 |
| 1 | 16b |
Elizabeth Willet Whipple
Pach Brothers,
Cambridge, Mass. (Photographer)
Elizabeth Willlet Whipple was the sister of Fanny Rebecca
Whipple Claridge.
Written on album page: Aunt Lizzie (His Wife).
|
between 1870 and 1879 |
| 1 | 17a |
Oliver Buel Graves Jr.
Whitney and Son,
Cambridge, Mass. (Photographer)
Oliver Graves Jr. was the first son of Oliver Graves and
Elizabeth Willet Whipple.
|
between 1872 and 1879 |
| 1 | 17b |
Frederick Claridge Graves
Whitney and Son,
Cambridge, Mass. (Photographer)
Frederick Graves was the youngest son of Oliver Graves and
Elizabeth Willet Whipple.
Written on album page: Fred Graves.
|
between 1880 and 1889 |
| 1 | 18a |
James W. Graves
G.H. Sherman, Elgin,
Ill. (Photographer)
James Graves was the second son of Oliver and Elizabeth Willet
Whipple Graves.
|
between 1881 and 1892 |
| 1 | 18b |
Imogene E. Smith Graves
G.H. Sherman, Elgin,
Ill. (Photographer)
Jean Smith was the wife of James Graves.
Written on album page: Jean Smith (His Wife).
|
between 1881 and 1892 |
| 1 | 19a |
Elizabeth Willet Whipple
Graves
Pach Brothers, New York,
N.Y. (Photographer)
|
between 1867 and 1877 |
| 1 | 19b |
Lindley Murray Huggins
Prof. D. A. Woodward Monumental Art Studio, New York, N.Y. (Photographer)
|
between 1880 and 1889 |
| 1 | 20a |
Clara Maud Ray Kellar
Elmer Chickering,
Boston, Mass. (Photographer)
Clara Maud Ray Kellar was the daughter of Sarah Matilda Whipple,
who was the sister of Fanny Rebecca Whipple.
|
between 1890 and 1899 |
| 1 | 20b |
Clara Maud Ray Kellar
Elmer Chickering,
Boston, Mass. (Photographer)
|
between 1890 and 1899 |
| 1 | 21a |
Hattie Abbot Ray Frost
Elmer Chickering,
Boston, Mass. (Photographer)
Hattie Abbot Ray Frost was the daughter of Sarah Matilda
Whipple, the sister of Fanny Rebecca Whipple.
|
between 1885 and 1895 |
| 1 | 21b |
Edward Randolph Ray
Warren G. Foley, Boston,
Mass. (Photographer)
Edward Randolph Ray was son of Sarah Matilda Whipple, the sister
of Fanny Rebecca Whipple.
Written on album page: Ned Ray. Written on back of photograph:
Edward Randolph Ray 8 months old.
|
between 1887 and 1888 |
| 1 | 22a |
Elsie Bertram Donnelly
William Getz, Baltimore,
Md. (Photographer)
Elsie Bertram Donnelly was the daughter of William Andrew
Bertram and Flora Ensor. Elsie was the granddaughter of Alice Miranda Whipple,
who was the sister of Fanny Rebecca Whipple.
|
between 1885 and 1889 |
| 1 | 22b |
Flora Ensor Bertram
Merritt and Van Wagner,
Washington D. C. (Photographer)
Flora Ensor Bertram was the wife of William Andrew Bertram, who
was the son of Alice Miranda Whipple.
|
between 1880 and 1889 |
| 1 | 23a |
William Andrew Bertram
Pardee Photography,
Brooklyn, N.Y. (Photographer)
William Andrew Bertram was the son of Alice Miranda Whipple, who
was the sister of Fanny Rebecca Whipple.
Written on album page: Willie Bertram.
|
between 1890 and 1899 |
| 1 | 23b |
Flora Ensor Bertram
Pardee Photography,
Brooklyn, N.Y. (Photographer)
|
between 1890 and 1899 |
| 1 | 24a |
Isabell Bertram Polley
William Getz, Baltimore,
Md. (Photographer)
Isabell Bertam Polley was the child of William Andrew Bertram
and Flora Ensor.
Written on album page: Bell Bertram Polly [sic].
|
between 1885 and 1888 |
| 1 | 24b |
William Bertram Jr.
William Getz, Baltimore,
Md. (Photographer)
William Bertram Jr. was the son of William Andrew Bertram and
Flora Ensor.
|
between 1885 and 1888 |
| 1 | 25 |
Mrs. Burchard
F. H. Brown, Falls City,
Nebr. (Photographer)
|
between 1885 and 1894 |
| 1 | 26a |
Alice Minerva Claridge
Waltemeyer
Mueller Photographic Studio, Baltimore, Md. (Photographer)
|
between 1880 and 1889 |
| 1 | 26b | Herbert Lyndon Ray
Herbert Ray was the son of Sarah Matilda Whipple, who was the
sister of Fanny Rebecca Whipple.
Written on album page: Bert Ray.
|
between 1900 and 1905 |
| 1 | 27a |
James Whipple Ray
Beckford, Boston,
Mass. (Photographer)
James Whipple Ray was the son of Sarah Matilda Whipple.
Written on album page: Jas. Ray.
|
between 1900 and 1905 |
| 1 | 27b |
Edward Randolph Ray
Elmer Chickering,
Boston, Mass. (Photographer)
Edward Randolph Ray was the son of Sarah Matilda Whipple.
Written on album page: Ned Ray.
|
between 1900 and 1905 |
| 1 | 28a |
Mr. Anderson
Lear and Cotton, Omaha,
Nebr. (Photographer)
|
between 1890 and 1899 |
| 1 | 28b |
Drs. W.O. and E.D. Henry
Elite Studio, Omaha,
Nebr. (Photographer)
|
between 1890 and 1899 |
| 1 | 29 |
Three children
Elite Studio, Omaha,
Nebr. (Photographer)
Possibly children of Sarah Matilda Whipple and John Ray.
Written on verso: With much love from Madge.
|
July 27, 1893 |
| 1 | 30a |
Nellie Gordon
Imperial Art Studio of Richard Walzl, Baltimore, Md. (Photographer)
|
between 1880 and 1899 |
| 1 | 30b |
Mrs. Gordon
Bachrach & Bro,
Baltimore, Md. (Photographer)
|
between 1880 and 1890 |
| 1 | 31a |
James Ripley Claridge
Loring's Rooms,
Eastport, Maine (Photographer)
Written on album page: Jas. R. Claridge.
|
between 1865 and 1875 |
| 1 | 31b |
Fanny Rebecca Whipple
Claridge
Loring's Rooms,
Eastport, Maine (Photographer)
|
between 1865 and 1875 |
| 1 | 31c |
Alice Miranda Whipple
Bertram
H.G. Smith, Boston,
Mass. (Photographer)
|
between 1863 and 1879 |
| 1 | 32b | Joseph Berry Claridge
Written on album page: Jos. B. Claridge.
|
between 1895 and 1910 |
| 1 | 32c |
Clara Maud Ray Kellar
Castor, Denver,
Colo. (Photographer)
|
between 1901 and 1916 |
| 1 | 33a | Thomas S. Waltemeyer
Written on album page: Thos. S. Waltemeyer.
|
between 1894 and 1910 |
| 1 | 33b | between 1880 and 1884 | |
| 1 | 34a |
Marcus Morton Whipple
E.A. Holton, Boston,
Mass. (Photographer)
Written on album page: Uncle Marcus.
|
between 1882 and 1889 |
| 1 | 34b |
Margaret Anna Ferguson
E.A. Holton, Boston,
Mass. (Photographer)
Written on album page: Aunt Maggie.
|
between 1882 and 1889 |
| 1 | 34c | Lillian Taylor |
between 1880 and 1889 |
| 1 | 35a |
Frank Ober
Notman Photographic Company, Albany, N.Y. (Photographer)
|
between 1880 and 1889 |
| 1 | 35b | Mr. Petriken |
between 1880 and 1889 |
| 1 | 35c |
Fanny Rebecca Whipple
Claridge
Richard Walzl's Palace of Artistic Photography, Baltimore, Md. (Photographer)
|
between 1872 and 1881 |
| 1 | 36a | Baby |
between 1885 and 1889 |
| 1 | 36c |
Helen Ludington Evans
Perkins, Baltimore,
Md. (Photographer)
Written on verso: Helen Ludington Evans.
|
between 1887 and 1897 |
| 1 | 37 | between 1874 and 1884 | |
| 1 | 38 | between 1880 and 1883 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Personal Names
- Claridge, Fanny Rebecca--Photographs
- Claridge, Fred H.--Photographs
- Claridge, James Ripley--Photographs
- Waltemeyer, Alice Minerva--Photographs
- Waltemeyer, John Tassey--Photographs
Family Names
- Claridge Family--Photographs
- Whipple family--Photographs
