Descriptive Summary
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Photograph Collection
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3000
Phone: 435 797-2663
Fax: 435 797-2880
Email: scweb@usu.edu
USU_P0109
French family.
French family album,
1860-1930
3 boxes
1.5 linear ft.
Seventy-three photographs, including
cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, and postcards from a family album. Most of the
portraits are unidentified, although several are members of the French family, who
apparently lived in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Other photographs were taken in Canada
or the Midwest including Menominee and Fond du Lac in Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois.
Others indicate Portland, Oregon as their place of origin. The photographs were removed
from the album for preservation reasons but have been kept in their original order.
Collection materials are in English.
Restrictions
Open to public research.
Copyright
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be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
French family album, 1860-1930. (P0109). Utah State University. Special Collections
& Archives Department.
This album was transferred to the division on January 17, 1996. The album was discovered
by the daughter of Edna Lemmon of Preston Idaho in a boarding house in San Francisco.
The daughter gave it to Mrs. Lemmon, who gave it to John Olinger, who donated it to
Special Collections & Archives.
Register completed by Peter F. Schmid, January 1998, and revised by Daniel Davis,
February 2005.
Organized numerical by photo number.
The French family album consists of 73 images including carte-de-visite, cabinet cards,
and postcards. Most of the portraits are unidentified although several are members of
the French family who apparently lived in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Other photographs
were taken in Canada or the Midwest including Menominee and Fond du Lac in Wisconsin,
and Chicago, Illinois. Others indicate Portland, Oregon as their place of origin.
The photographs were removed from the album but kept in their original order. The two
photographs in box 3 were pasted into the album and have been removed for preservation
reasons.
Images
French family--Photographs.
Canadians--Portraits.
Canadians--Photographs.
Portrait
photography--Ontario--St. Thomas.
Portrait photography--Middle
West.
Architecture,
Domestic--Ontario--St. Thomas--Photographs.
Cartes-de-visite.
Cabinet photographs.
Albumen prints.
Container List
1
1:01-04
St. Thomas, Ontario (Canada)--Houses--1890's.
Cabinet photographs, exterior and interior views of a home in St. Thomas, probably
the French home. In one interior, a child sits at table with a basket of fruit.
Excellent interior photography; photos by Hopkins (St. Thomas)
1890s
1
1:05
St. Thomas, Ontario (Canada)--Houses--ca. 1905.
Cabinet photograph, an elderly couple (Jessie G.(?) Maclean) in their drawing room
on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary; possibly in St. Thomas
ca. 1905
1
1:06
Photographers: Hopkins. Unidentified cabinet
portrait of an elderly woman; by Hopkins (St. Thomas, Ontario)
1880s
1
1:07
French, Jeanie S. Cabinet portrait, probably taken
in St. Thomas, Ontario
1880s
1
1:08
Photographers: Notman, William. Unidentified
cabinet portrait, probably a member of the French family of St. Thomas, Ontario;
by Notman (Montreal, Toronto & Halifax)
1880s
1
1:09
Photographer: Fond du Lac Cabinet portrait by
D.N.M. Keuua
1
1:10
Unidentified cabinet card portrait of young man,
taken
1886(?)
1
1:11
Photographers: Groh, G.M. & Bro.
Unidentified cabinet portrait, possibly a member of the French family of St.
Thomas, Ontario; by G.M. Groh & Bro. (Sheboygan, Wisconsin)
1880
1
1:12
Photographers: Scott & Hopkins.
Unidentified cabinet portrait, friend of the French family of St. Thomas, Ontario;
by Scott & Hopkins (St. Thomas, Ontario)
1883
1
1:13
Photographers: Lindop, W.E. Unidentified cabinet
portrait, possibly a member of the French family of St. Thomas, Ontario; by Lindop
(St. Thomas, Ontario)
1880s
1
1:14
Photographers: Gagen & Fraser. Unidentifed
cabinet portrait of man and baby; by Gagen & Fraser (Toronto)
1880s
1
1:15-16
Photographers: Hopkins, J.H. Unidentified cabinet
portraits, one of woman and baby and the other of a baby; by J.H. Hopkins (St.
Thomas, Ontario)
1880s
1
1:17
Photographers: Gagen & Fraser. Unidentifed
cabinet portrait of baby; by Gagen & Fraser (Toronto)
1880s
1
1:18-21
Photographers: Hopkins, J.H. Unidentified cabinet
portraits, probably members of the French family, St. Thomas, Ontario; by J.H.
Hopkins (St. Thomas, Ontario)
1890s
1
1:22
Photographers: Russell. Cabinet photograph, a
group of men with guns and tent, beside a railroad trestle; by Russell (Tottenham,
Ontario)
1890s
1
1:23
Photographers: McAlpin. Unidentified portrait of
two women; by McAlpin
ca. 1910
1
1:24-25
Photographers: Hopkins, J.H. Cabinet portraits of
a little girl with her doll; by Hopkins (St. Thomas, Ontario)
ca. 1905
1
1:26
Unidentified woman feeding pigeons, probably
taken in Europe
1
1:27
Unidentified woman, Swiss passport photo(?)
ca. 1910
1
1:28
Unidentified woman dressed in snow shoeing
gear
1
1:29
Unidentified girl
1
1:30
Three unidentified girls
1
1:31
Two pictures of unidentified women
1
1:32
Unidentified woman being pulled in a carriage by
an Asian man
1
1:33
Photographers: Nagasaki. Portrait of a woman
playing a Japanese instrument; by Nagasaki (Yokohama)
ca. 1918
1
1:34
Unidentified woman
1
1:35
Photographers: Scott & Hopkins. Cabinet
portrait of man; Scott & Hopkins (St. Thomas, Ontario)
1880s
1
1:36
Photographers: Gagen & Fraser. Cabinet
portrait of baby, by Gagen & Fraser (Toronto)
1880s
1
1:37
French, Jeanie S. Cabinet portrait; by G.M. Groh
& Bro. (Sheboygan, Wisconsin)
1880s
1
1:38
Photographers: Aerne, C. Portrait; by Aerne
(Portland, Ore.)
ca. 1910s
1
1:39-41
Unidentified women
ca. 1910s
1
1:42
Group on a beach
early 1900s
1
1:43
Unidentified women (with dog) in a
carriage
1
1:44
Unidentified woman
1
1:45
Photographers: Kirkham. Cabinet portrait of mother
and son; by Kirkham (Menominee, Mich.)
1890s
1
1:46
Photographers: Stronach & Vansickle.
Cabinet portrait of man; by Stronach & Vansickle
early 1890s
1
1:47
Photographers: Gehrig Studios. Cabinet portrait of
woman; by Gehrig Studios, Frank A. Place, Proprietor Place (Chicago, ILL)
1880s
1
1:48
Unidentified woman with her husband (?) in a
hammock
1
1:49
Photographers: Albert Studio. Postcard portrait of
a woman; by Albert Studio (Atlantic City, NJ)
1910s
1
1:50
Two unidentified men
1
1:51
Photographers: McKenna. Cabinet portrait of father
and son; by McKenna (Fond du Lac)
ca. early 1890s
1
1:52
Portrait of man
1
1:53
Portrait of old woman, Knowles
1
1:54
Photographers: Windeatt. Portrait; by Windeatt
(Oak Park, ILL)
1910s
Negative available.
1
1:55
Photographers: Wiltberger, L. Cabinet portrait of
two girls; by Wiltberger (Oak Park, ILL)
ca. 1905
1
1:56
Photographers: Windeatt. Portrait of a woman; by
Windeatt (Oak Park, ILL)
1910s
1
1:57
Photographers: Hopkins. Cabinet portrait of a
woman; Hopkins (St. Thomas, Ontario)
1880s
1
1:58
French, Jeanie S. Cabinet portrait of a woman; by
G.M. Groh & Bro. (Sheboygan, Wis.)
1880s
1
1:59
Photographers: Green, A.S. Cabinet portriat of a
woman; by Green (St. Thomas, Ontario)
1880s
1
1:60
Photographers: Arnold. Cabinet portrait of a
family; by Arnold (Oak Park, ILL)
1890s
1
1:61
Photographers: Gehrig Studios Place, Frank A.
Cabinet portrait of a woman by Gehrig Studios, Frank A. Place, Proprietor
(Chicago, ILL)
1880s
1
1:62
Mackenzie, William Kenneth Mar. Cabinet portrait
of a boy
ca. 1903
2
2:01-02.
Unidentified cartes-de-visite, two girls with their
pet dog
ca. 1870's
2
2:03.
Photographers: Aune. Carte-de-visite of three
children; by Aune (Portland, OR)
1860s
2
2:04.
Carte-de-visite, unidentified woman
1886
2
2:05.
Photographers: Ryder, J. F. Carte-de-visite of a
little girl; by Ryder (Cleveland, OH)
ca. 1870s
2
2:06.
Carte-de-visite of a girl
March 1870
2
2:07.
Photographers: Sutter. Carte-de-visite portrait of
a young woman wearing a large cross; by Sutter (Milwaukee, WI)
ca. 1880s
2
2:08-09.
Unidentified portraits
3
3:01.
A resort lodge, probably in California. William
Kenneth Marr Mackenzie in the photo
ca. 1902
3
3:02.
Close-up of the family in front of resort lodge.
William Kenneth Marr Mackenzie in the photo
ca. 1902