Professor H. E. Peck
Photographers
Leaman & Lee studio #1
Backmark is for A.J. Smith's studio and the Front is of AJ Smith himself
Photo studio benchmark -- Gibbs, NY
JG Batchelder
Wilbur Fisk
Educators/Teachers
Little formal schooling, but pioneer in early childhood education, beyond rote memorization to full sentence construction and meaning of words, Temple School in Boston ’34, includes black students, member of Transcendentalist Club, abolitionist, women’s rights, utopian community called Fruitlands, daughter Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women.
Robert Breckinridge
JE Hoitts
Citizen Benjamin Brooks
Little boy with daguerreotype photo
Bingham’s wife is Elizabeth, who dies in 1886. They are referred to as Uncle Francis & Aunt Elizabeth on the photo backs.
FJ Moulton with camera
Abner Forbes - Dedicated to teaching black students
Perry Drane Backmark II
A. J. Smith
Rev John Pierpont
John Lothrop Motley
Photo studio backmark
Rhees, VA
Merchant Wilson
Photo studio backmark
Katterns
Lecturer in front of shelves with book in hand
F. Freehafer - traveling photographer
Jared Sparks
Harvard University
President 1849-1853
Rev. Nathan Lord
Cornelius Felton
Bosses/Merchants
Horace Mann
Photographer and camera
Another shot of the Leaman & Lee Gallery and the drug store, this time with 14 young men and boys posed outside. The sign to the left promotes “Arctic Soda.”
Purviances Photo Studio - Large photo studio in Pittsburg
Citizen Boss Bailey
Photography Book
James Fairchild
Rev. James Thorne
Louis Agasizz
Matthew Vassar with autograph
Leaman & Lee studio #2
Brash man
Studies of crania shapes and sizes came into vogue as universities opened up anthropology departments. But notable mishaps here involved pseudo-scientific studies done by Drs. Samuel Morton and Josiah Nott “proving” that negroes were “a different and inferior species” because their skulls were smaller than whites. These “findings” furthered the negative stereotyping of all blacks.
H Olson
Photo presumably taken by William Leaman (born 1842) of his studio at 538 Penn St. in Reading, Pa. To the left of the entrance are displays of cdv’s. One sign above the door reads “Douglas House;” The other: “Graeff & Herb Agents – Compounders of the Wild Cherry Bitters for dyspepsia and weak stomachs” and may be linked to the Drug Store on the left at 540 Penn, run by Wm. J. Thirwechter, a Deutsche Apotheke. Three men stand in the doorway of the drug store; one in the upper right window.
Merchant Wallace in Paris
Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)
Mathew Brady
Somber man
Merchants
Bryan
Geo. Gibbs
Horace Mann
Francis Wayland
Brown University President 1827-1855
Louis Agasizz at blackboard teaching science
Captain Francis Bingham
John W Francis
NY Academy of Medicine
President 1849
“Captain” Francis Bingham was a prominent manufacturer of shoes in Hudson, Mass. who dies in 1884.
Mrs. Francis Bingham
Prominent Men Outside Politics