WAUMacBrideThomasHustonPHColl161.xml Guide to the Thomas Huston Macbride photograph collection Macbride (Thomas Huston) photograph collection Elizabeth Russell Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries 2025
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-10-17. Description is written in: English, Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries Thomas Huston Macbride photograph collection Macbride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston), 1848-1934 PH0161 1.13 cubic feet 1100 photographic prints, including 5 albums (4 boxes) approximately 1880-1920 Family photographs, circa 1880-1920 English .

Thomas Huston Macbride (1848-1934) was a botanist and the 10th President of the State University of Iowa, serving from 1914 to 1916. He had also worked on the campus for over 50 years as a professor and conservationist, and head of the Department of Botany from 1887 to 1893. He was the first president of the Iowa Park and Forestry Association, and he founded the Lakeside Laboratory at Lake Okoboji in northwest Iowa. Macbride married Harriet Diffenderfer on December 31, 1875, and they had four children. Later in life, he moved to Seattle, Washington where he died on March 27, 1934, at age 85. He was the father of Philip D. Macbride.

Collection consists of 5 photograph albums and loose photos, mainly portraits of family and friends.

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 Thomas Huston Macbride photograph collection Ephemera PH0161 Box 1 1 Family outings, picnics, camping. Graduation from university (Not University of Washington) PH0161 Box 1 2 Diffenderfer Family PH0161 Box 1 3 Thomas Huston Macbride PH0161 Box 1 4 Mrs. W.J. Suther PH0161 Box 1 5 Francis Macbride (?) PH0161 Box 1 6 M.D. Cornelius PH0161 Box 1 7 Jean Macbride PH0161 Box 1 8 Philip Macbride PH0161 Box 1 9 Philip Cormany, James Macbride, Hazel Scott, Mary Lytle, Frank Sauer, Mrs. Howe PH0161 Box 1 10 Unidentified woman PH0161 Box 1 11 Unidentified woman (Mary Macbride ?) PH0161 Box 1 12 Unidentified Women PH0161 Box 1 13 Unidentified men PH0161 Box 1 14 Unidentified children PH0161 Box 1 15 Landscape photographs of houses, grave of Elizabeth Cormany, and various sceneries PH0161 Box 1 16 Family photos, camping, swimming. Graduation from university (Not University of Washington) PH0161 Box 1 17 Album 1 PH0161 Box 2

88 photographs. Family photographs, late 19th century.

 photographs of friends of Macbride (Philip?), newspaper articles on the marriage of Philip and Miss Edith Ball in Iowa (1909) PH0161 Box 2

Loose images and newspaper clippings from Album 3

 Album 4 PH0161 Box 2

45 photographs. Family portraits. Late 19th century

 Album 5 PH0161 Box 2

41 tintypes and carte de visites. Family portraits. Late 19th century

 Album 2 PH0161 Box 3

368 postcards - Iowa, Washington, D.C., Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, California, Michigan, Florida, Europe.

 15 envelopes of small travel snapshots - including a trip to Oxford University PH0161 Box 3 Portrait of Philip D. Macbride PH0161 Box 4 Family Portrait PH0161 Box 4 Unidentified man PH0161 Box 4 Photograph of Thomas Huston Macbride at his desk (potentially at university, though not the University of Washington) PH0161 Box 4 Group portrait of women PH0161 Box 4 House with horse drawn carriage in front by S.R. Fisher PH0161 Box 4 Album 3 Ph0161 Box 4

175 Photographs of friends of Macbride (Philip?)