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Guide to the Elizabeth Robins Papers MSS.002


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Series IX: Photographic Material

Scope and Contents note

All photographic materials from the Elizabeth Robins Papers are gathered together in Series Nine. Photographs which originated in other series, e.g. Series Two: General Correspondence, are marked appropriately. The photographs are arranged by subseries in albums, followed by boxes of over 5"x7," which correspond to each subseries. Larger oversize photographs are housed with Oversize Material.

Subseries A: Elizabeth Robins

Scope and Contents note

Subseries A contains photographs of Elizabeth Robins. Cabinet photos of her in American and English theatrical performances are arranged by title. There are also over forty formal portraits of Robins, varying from studio to passport photographs. Photos of Robins can also be found in Subseries C-F.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Album: 207 Photograph : 1-9 The American

General note

See also Oversize Material, Box 8, Folder 1.
Album: 207 Photograph : American King

Scope and Content

See also Album 220, #129.
Album: 207 Photograph : 10-24 Divorce

Scope and Content

See also Album 220, #130.
Album: 207 Photograph : 25 Dr. Bill
Album: 207 Photograph : 26-29 Eleanor
Album: 207 Photograph : 30 Forgiven
Album: 207 Photograph : 31 Her Own Witness
Album: 207 Photograph : 32-38 Little Lord Fauntleroy
Album: 207 Photograph : 39-51 The Master Builder

Scope and Content

See also Album 220, #131-133.
Album: 207 Photograph : 52-60 Mrs. Lessingham
Album: 207 Photograph : 61-71 The Trumpet Call
 1891?
Album: 207 Photograph : 72-79 Elizabeth Robins [ER] portraits
Album: 207 Photograph : 80 Elizabeth Robins and Marion Lea
Album: 208 Photograph : 81-122 ER portraits

Scope and Content

See also Album 220, #129-163.
Album: 208 Photograph : 123-128 Group shots which include ER

Subseries B: General Portraits

Scope and Contents note

Subseries B contains photographs of early American and British actors and actresses, many in costume and theatrical pose, along with portraits of Elizabeth Robins's friends (including classmates) and relatives. Photographs of Robins' husband, George Richmond Parks, an actor with the Boston Museum Company, are also included here, as well as cabinet photos of many of her theatrical colleagues. William Archer, Florence Bell and family, and Octavia Wilberforce all are substantially represented.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Album: 208 Photograph : 1 Ainley, Henry
 1902
Album: 208 Photograph : 2 Alexandra, Princess of Wales
Album: 208 Photograph : 3-4 Ameen, Elin
Album: 208 Photograph : 5 Amran, Isaac Ben
 1909
Album: 208 Photograph : 6-8 Anderson, Mary
Album: 208 Photograph : 9 Archer, William
Album: 208 Photograph : 10-11 Archer, William
 1891
Album: 208 Photograph : 12-13 Archer, William
Album: 208 Photograph : 14 Archer, William
 1899
Album: 208 Photograph : 14A Archer, William

Scope and Content

See also Album 221, #352-53.
Album: 208 Photograph : Aswell, Lena
Album: 208 Photograph : 15 Bacus, George A.
Album: 208 Photograph : 16 Bacus, George A.
 1883
Album: 208 Photograph : Baird, Dorothea

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #355-56.
Album: 208 Photograph : 17-18 Baker, Clara
Album: 208 Photograph : 19 Baleman
 1892
Album: 208 Photograph : 20 Barrett, Lawrence

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #357.
Album: 208 Photograph : 21 Barron, Charles
Album: 208 Photograph : Bayley, Katherine

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #358.
Album: 208 Photograph : 22 Becker, Danforth
 1881
Album: 208 Photograph : 23-24 Bell, Elsa and Molly
Album: 208 Photograph : 25 Bell, Florence and granddaughter Nora Richmond
Album: 208 Photograph : Bell, Florence

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #359-60.
Album: 208 Photograph : 26 Bell, Gertrude and Col. T. E. Lawrence
Album: 208 Photograph : 26 Bell, Hugh

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #361-62.
Album: 208 Photograph : 27-28 Bell, Hugo
Album: 208 Photograph : 29 Bell, Molly
Album: 208 Photograph : 30 Bell, Elsa
Album: 208 Photograph : 32 Bell, Hugo
Album: 208 Photograph : 32A Bell, Hugh and grandchild
Album: 208 Photograph : 32-35 Bell, Hugh and grandson
Album: 208 Photograph : 36-39 Bell, Frances and sons
Album: 208 Photograph : 40 Bells and Trevelyans
Album: 208 Photograph : 41 Bell grandchildren
Album: 208 Photograph : 42 Burstadt, A.
Album: 208 Photograph : 43 Benson (aunt)
Album: 208 Photograph : Beringer, Esme

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #363.
Album: 208 Photograph : 44 Berringer, Vera
Album: 208 Photograph : Black, Dora and Emma Blandy

Scope and Content

See also Album 221, #364.
Album: 208 Photograph : 45 Blackeston, Mrs. Clarence
Album: 208 Photograph : 46 Blanchard, Gertie A.
 1884
Album: 208 Photograph : 47 Blandy, Emma
Album: 208 Photograph : 48-49 Blandy, Emma
 1881
Album: 208 Photograph : 50 Blandy, Emma
 1883
Album: 208 Photograph : 51 Blandy, Emma
 1886
Album: 208 Photograph : 52 Blandy, Emma
 1889
Album: 208 Photograph : 53 Blandy, Emma
Album: 208 Photograph : 54 Blandy, Emma
 1882
Album: 208 Photograph : 54 Blandy, Emma and Dora Black

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #364.
Album: 208 Photograph : 55 Blandy, Julia
Album: 208 Photograph : 56 Blandy, Julia
 1880
Album: 208 Photograph : 57 Bloodgood, Clara S.
 1899
Album: 208 Photograph : 58-63 Bodine, J.M.
Album: 208 Photograph : 64-66 Bodine, Elizabeth
Album: 208 Photograph : 67 Bodine, Lizzie (Mrs. McKay) and daughter Mary Bodine McKay
 1880
Album: 208 Photograph : 68 Bodine, Mary
Album: 208 Photograph : 69 Boston Museum Company cast
 1884 Image 1.
Album: 208 Photograph : 70 Boston Museum Company cast
 1884 Image 2.
Album: 208 Photograph : 71 Breckenridge, Louise Tevis
 1883
Album: 208 Photograph : 72 Brough, Fanny
Album: 208 Photograph : 72 Brough, Lionel

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #365.
Album: 208 Photograph : 73 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Album: 208 Photograph : 74 Buck, Mamie E.
 1880
Album: 209 Photograph : 75 Buck, Charlie
Album: 209 Photograph : 76 Buckingham, Julia
Album: 209 Photograph : Buckingham, Nellie and Bessie Guthrie

Scope and Content

See Album 225, #3.
Album: 209 Photograph : 77 Bull, Ole

Scope and Content

See also Album 221, #366.
Album: 209 Photograph : 78 Bullitt, Annie
Album: 209 Photograph : 79-83 Bullitt, Edith
Album: 209 Photograph : 84 Bullitt, Edith and Bettie McGoodwin
 1879
Album: 209 Photograph : 85 Bullitt, Edith
Album: 209 Photograph : 86-88 Bullitt, Edward
Album: 209 Photograph : 89-90 Bullitt, Julia
Album: 209 Photograph : 91 Bullitt, Lizzie
Album: 209 Photograph : 92 Buxton
Album: 209 Photograph : 93 Cable, George W.
Album: 209 Photograph : 94 Caldwell, Marianne
Album: 209 Photograph : 95 Calhoun, Nellie
Album: 209 Photograph : 96-97 Campbell, Beatrice Stella
Album: 209 Photograph : 98 Campbell, Beatrice Stella
Album: 209 Photograph : 99 Campbell, Beatrice Stella
Album: 209 Photograph : 100 Campbell, Beatrice Stella
Album: 209 Photograph : Campbell, Beatrice Stella

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #367.
Album: 209 Photograph : Campbell, Beatrice Stella and Mr. Forbes Robinson

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #368.
Album: 209 Photograph : 101 Carlyle, Thomas
Album: 209 Photograph : 102 Carrington, Emma Blandy
Album: 209 Photograph : 103 Casson, Louis and Sybil and family
 ca. 1933
Album: 209 Photograph : 104 Clarke, Annie M.
 1885
Album: 209 Photograph : 105 Clemens, Samuel
Album: 209 Photograph : 106-108 Clement, Hope
Album: 209 Photograph : 109 Clifford, Lucy
Album: 209 Photograph : 110 Coghlan, Charles
Album: 209 Photograph : 111 Cooper, Peter
Album: 209 Photograph : Cordes, Albert

Scope and Content

See Album 225, #2.
Album: 209 Photograph : 112 Crackenthorpe, Mrs. (B.A.C.)
Album: 209 Photograph : 113 Craik, Rev. James
Album: 209 Photograph : Crow, Edward, Jr.

General note

See Album 20, #1.
Album: 209 Photograph : 114 Cushman, Charlotte
Album: 209 Photograph : 115 Cutter, Anna W.
Album: 209 Photograph : Cutter, Mrs. Chester and Nina

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #369.
Album: 209 Photograph : 116 Cutter, Chester G.
 1883
Album: 209 Photograph : 117 Cutter, Fannie
 1883
Album: 209 Photograph : 118 Cutter, Nina
Album: 209 Photograph : 119 Cutter, Nina
 1884
Album: 209 Photograph : 120 Cutter, Nina
Album: 209 Photograph : Cutter, Nina and Mrs. Cutter

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #369.
Album: 209 Photograph : 121 Dabbs, Mrs
Album: 209 Photograph : 122 Dace, Reginia
 ca. 1883
Album: 209 Photograph : Daudet, Madame

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #370.
Album: 209 Photograph : 123-124 Davidge, Mary
Album: 209 Photograph : 125-126 Deaves, Rillie
Album: 209 Photograph : 127 Diemer, Johann
 1890
Album: 209 Photograph : 128 Dillon, Julia Carroll
Album: 209 Photograph : 129 Dillon, Alice
Album: 209 Photograph : 130 Dillon, Asabel
Album: 209 Photograph : 131 Dillon, Julia
Album: 209 Photograph : 131A Dreier, [Katherine?]
Album: 209 Photograph : Dreier, Katherine

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #371-72.
Album: 209 Photograph : Dreier, Margaret

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #373.
Album: 209 Photograph : Dreier

Scope and Content

See also Oversize Material, Box 269, Folder 8.
Album: 209 Photograph : 132 Dreier, Mrs. Theodore
Album: 209 Photograph : Du Maurier, Gerald and Herbert Ross

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #395.
Album: 209 Photograph : 133 Duse, Eleonora
Album: 209 Photograph : 134 Eaton, Dr. Frank
Album: 209 Photograph : 135-136 Edward, Prince of Wales
Album: 209 Photograph : 137 Eliot, Mather
 1935
Album: 209 Photograph : 138 Eliot, Etta Robins and Henrietta Eliot
Album: 209 Photograph : Esmond, H.V.

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #374.
Album: 209 Photograph : Esmond, Mr. and Mrs. H.V.

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #376.
Album: 209 Photograph : 139-140 Ethel, Agnes
Album: 209 Photograph : Filippi, Rosina

General note

See Album 15, #376.
Album: 209 Photograph : 140A Fleming, Mr. and Mrs.
Album: 209 Photograph : 141 Folsom, M. Josie
 1884
Album: 209 Photograph : 142 Forbes-Robertson, Ian
 1885
Album: 209 Photograph : Forbes-Robertson and Beatrice Stella Campbell

Scope and Content

See also Album 221, #368.
Album: 209 Photograph : 143 Forrest, Edwin
Album: 209 Photograph : 144 Fox, Della
Album: 209 Photograph : 145 Frederick III, Crown Prince of Germany
Album: 209 Photograph : 146 Fulton, Howard
Album: 209 Photograph : 147 Gale, Minna K.
Album: 209 Photograph : 148 Galvin, Edward T.
 1882
Album: 209 Photograph : 149 Galvin, Mary Mack
 1882
Album: 209 Photograph : 150 Galvin, Rita and Mary
Album: 209 Photograph : 151 Gartner, Raimond and Elizabeth
Album: 209 Photograph : 152-153 Gartner, Elizabeth
Album: 209 Photograph : 154 George, King of Greece
Album: 209 Photograph : 155 Gilbert, John
 ca. 1883
Album: 209 Photograph : 155A Gilbert, John
Album: 209 Photograph : 156 Gilder, Jeanette L.
Album: 209 Photograph : 157 Gillette, William
Album: 209 Photograph : 158 Goldthwaite (?), Dora
Album: 209 Photograph : Gosse, Edmund

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #377.
Album: 209 Photograph : 159 Gotsch, Elisabeth
 1936
Album: 209 Photograph : 160 Gould, Edith Kindon
Album: 209 Photograph : 161 Gurney, Kate and Alma Stuart Stanley
Album: 209 Photograph : Guthrie, Bessie and Nellie Buckingham

Scope and Content

See Album 225, #3.
Album: 209 Photograph : Hanbury, Lily

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #378.
Album: 209 Photograph : 162 Hanley, Lawrence
Album: 209 Photograph : Hapgood, Norman

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #379.
Album: 209 Photograph : Hare, Helen

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #380.
Album: 209 Photograph : 163 Hedley, Annie
 1879
Album: 209 Photograph : 164 Hedley, Mary
 1882
Album: 209 Photograph : Hedley, Mary B.

Scope and Content

See Album 221, #381.
Album: 209 Photograph : 165 Hehir, M.
 1918
Album: 209 Photograph : 166 Heinemann, William
 1893
Album: 209 Photograph : 167 Heinemann, William

Scope and Content

See also Album 221, #382.
Album: 209 Photograph : Heury (?), Fanny and Elizabeth Robins

General note

See Album 225, #1.
Album: 209 Photograph : 168 Hewar, Lollie P.
 1883
Album: 209 Photograph : 169 Hogan, Elizabeth Bodine
 1912
Album: 209 Photograph : 170 Howard, Nelly
Album: 209 Photograph : 171 Hubert, Marjorie
Album: 209 Photograph : 172-173 Hughes, Henry A.
Album: 209 Photograph : 174 Ibsen, Henrik
 1891
Album: 209 Photograph : 175 Ibsen, Henrik
Album: 209 Photograph : 176 Ireland, George
 1862
Album: 209 Photograph : 177 Irving, Henry
Album: 209 Photograph : James, Henry

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #383.
Album: 209 Photograph : 178-179 Jecks, Clara M.
 1891
Album: 209 Photograph : 180 Jewett, Sara
 1883
Album: 209 Photograph : 181-182 Jordan, Louise
Album: 210 Photograph : 183-185 Jordan, Louise
Album: 210 Photograph : Journeay, B.H.

Scope and Content

See Album 225, #4.
Album: 210 Photograph : 186-188 Kealhofer, Isabel Crow
Album: 210 Photograph : 189 Kellogg, Gertrude
 1888
Album: 210 Photograph : 190 Koehler, Charles
 1888
Album: 210 Photograph : 191 Langtry, Mrs. L.
Album: 210 Photograph : 192 Lea, Marion
Album: 210 Photograph : 193 Lea, Marion
Album: 210 Photograph : 194-197 Lea, Marion
Album: 210 Photograph : 198 Lories, Father General
Album: 210 Photograph : 199 Mack children
Album: 210 Photograph : 200 Mack, Etta
Album: 210 Photograph : 201 Mack, Charles Samuel
Album: 210 Photograph : 202 Mack, Mary
Album: 210 Photograph : 203-204 Mack, Rebecca and Charlie
Album: 210 Photograph : 205 Mack, Rebecca
Album: 210 Photograph : 206 Mack, Samuel Ely
Album: 210 Photograph : Mansfield, Richard

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #384.
Album: 210 Photograph : Maud, Mrs. L.

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #385.
Album: 210 Photograph : Maurice, Edmund

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #386.
Album: 210 Photograph : Maurice, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #387.
Album: 210 Photograph : 207 Maveocordalo
Album: 210 Photograph : 208 McCullough, John
Album: 210 Photograph : Melville, Emilie

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #388.
Album: 210 Photograph : Meteyard, Jane

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #389.
Album: 210 Photograph : 209 Meteyard, Thomas Buford
 1928
Album: 210 Photograph : 210 Meteyard, Thomas Buford
 1888
Album: 210 Photograph : 211 Meteyard, Thomas
Album: 210 Photograph : 212 Meteyard, Marion G.
Album: 210 Photograph : 213 Mettke, Madame
Album: 210 Photograph : Millan, Evelyn

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #390.
Album: 210 Photograph : 214 Milne, Crichton
 1892
Album: 210 Photograph : 215 Milne, Crichton Jordon
Album: 210 Photograph : 216-217 Montague, Harry J.
Album: 210 Photograph : 218 Moodie, Louise
 1891
Album: 210 Photograph : 219 Moore, Margaret Hussey
 1852
Album: 210 Photograph : 220 Murey, Jameson
Album: 210 Photograph : 221 O'Leary, Miriam
Album: 210 Photograph : 222 O'Neill, James
 1882
Album: 210 Photograph : 223 Pankhurst, Emmeline
Album: 210 Photograph : 224 Pankhurst, Emmeline
Album: 210 Photograph : 225-226 Pankhurst, Emmeline
Album: 210 Photograph : 227 Parks, Emily T.
 1885
Album: 210 Photograph : 228 Parks family
Album: 210 Photograph : 229-232 Parks, George Richmond
Album: 210 Photograph : 233 Parks, George Richmond
Album: 210 Photograph : 234-235 Parks, George Richmond
Album: 210 Photograph : 236 Parks, George Richmond and Jack Mason
Album: 210 Photograph : 237 Parks, George Richmond and Jack Mason
Album: 210 Photograph : 238-240 Parks, George Richmond
Album: 210 Photograph : 241 Parks, George Richmond
Album: 210 Photograph : 242-243 Parks, George Richmond

Scope and Content

See also Album 222, #391.
Album: 210 Photograph : 244 Parmele, Annie M.
 1886
Album: 210 Photograph : 245 Perugini, Mark
Album: 210 Photograph : Pitt, Harry M.

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #392.
Album: 210 Photograph : Poe, Edgar Allan

Scope and Content

See Series IX, Subseries "miscellaneous" for Poe daguerreotype
Album: 210 Photograph : 246 Pollock, Sir Frederick
Album: 210 Photograph : 247 Pollock, Lady Georgina with daughter and granddaughter
Album: 210 Photograph : 248 Potwin, Carrie
Album: 210 Photograph : 249 Potwin, Julia
Album: 210 Photograph : 250 Potwin, Katie
 1877
Album: 210 Photograph : 251-252 Potwin, Katie
 1879
Album: 210 Photograph : 253 Potwin, Katie
 1881
Album: 210 Photograph : 254 Putnam Female Seminary
Album: 210 Photograph : 255 Raven, Grace ("Nita Sin") 1887
 1887
Album: 210 Photograph : 256 Reimers, Sophie
Album: 210 Photograph : 257 Richmond, Mary and Herbert
 1909
Album: 210 Photograph : 258 Robins, Gurdon
Album: 210 Photograph : 259 Robins, Margaret Dreier
Album: 210 Photograph : Robins, Mary Buck

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #393-94
Album: 210 Photograph : 260 Rogin, Ben G.
 1888
Album: 210 Photograph : 261 Ross, Fred
Album: 210 Photograph : Ross, Herbert and Gerald Du Maurier

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #395.
Album: 210 Photograph : 262 "Rossini"
Album: 210 Photograph : 263 Ruskin, John
Album: 210 Photograph : 264 Russell, M.L.
 1884
Album: 210 Photograph : 265 Salvini, Tommaso
 1883
Album: 210 Photograph : 266 Salvini, Tommaso
Album: 210 Photograph : 267 Schenibri (?), Eddie
 1890
Album: 210 Photograph : 267A Scott, A.V.
Album: 210 Photograph : 268-269 Scott, David
Album: 210 Photograph : 270 Seoville, Harriet Beecher
Album: 210 Photograph : 271-272 Sharswood, May
Album: 210 Photograph : 273 Sharswood, May
 1896
Album: 210 Photograph : 274 Smith, Beaumont
Album: 210 Photograph : 275 Smith, Cora Gabrielle
Album: 210 Photograph : 276 Standing, Percy C.
 ca. 1891
Album: 210 Photograph : 277 Standley, Alma Stuart and Kate Gurney
Album: 210 Photograph : 278 Starr, Laura B.
Album: 210 Photograph : Stead, Estelle

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #396.
Album: 210 Photograph : 279 Stead, William T.
 1911
Album: 210 Photograph : 280 Stevenson, Robert Louis
 1894
Album: 210 Photograph : 281 Stevenson, Robert Louis
Album: 210 Photograph : 282 Strong, Mrs.
 1900
Album: 210 Photograph : 283 Sullivan, Mrs. Margaret
Album: 210 Photograph : 284 Tennyson, Alfred
Album: 210 Photograph : 285 Terris, Mr.
Album: 210 Photograph : 286 Terry, Ellen
Album: 210 Photograph : 286 286. Terry, Ellen dupe?
Album: 210 Photograph : 287 Tevis, Lloyd

Scope and Content

See also Album 222, #397.

 1882
Album: 210 Photograph : 288-289 Tevis, Lizzie
Album: 210 Photograph : 290 Thayer, W.S.
Album: 210 Photograph : 291 Tree, Herbert Beerbohm
 1889
Album: 210 Photograph : 292 Tree, Herbert Beerbohm

Scope and Content

See also Album 222, #398-401.
Album: 210 Photograph : 293 Trevelyan, Charles
Album: 210 Photograph : 294 Trevelyan, Geoffrey
 1923
Album: 210 Photograph : 295 Trevelyan family

Scope and Content

See also Album 222, #402.
Album: 210 Photograph : 296 Toole, J.L.
Album: 210 Photograph : 297 Trowbridge, Adele
 1879
Album: 210 Photograph : 208 Trowbridge, Adele
Album: 210 Photograph : 297 Trowbridge, Adele
 1879
Album: 210 Photograph : 298 Trowbridge, Adele
Album: 210 Photograph : 299-300 Turner, Carrie
Album: 211 Photograph : 301-302 Ulmar, Geraldine
Album: 211 Photograph : 303 Urner, Edward C.
Album: 211 Photograph : 304-305 Urner, Elizabeth
Album: 211 Photograph : 306-307 Urner, Henry (?)
Album: 211 Photograph : 308 Urner, Nathan D.
Album: 211 Photograph : 309 Urner, Mr.
Album: 211 Photograph : Vezin, Hermann

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #403.

 1899
Album: 211 Photograph : 310-311 Victoria, Queen of England
Album: 211 Photograph : 312-313 Vincent, M.A.
Album: 211 Photograph : 314 Von Borowsky, Lisa
 1925
Album: 211 Photograph : 315-317 Von Borowsky, Lisa
 1934
Album: 211 Photograph : 318 Von Sachs, Julius
 1884
Album: 211 Photograph : 319 Von Sachs, Julius
 1888
Album: 211 Photograph : 320 Von Sachs, Julius

Scope and Content

See also Album 225, #2.

 1896
Album: 211 Photograph : 321 Waite, M.R.
Album: 211 Photograph : 322 Walpole, Hugh
Album: 211 Photograph : 323 Ward, Genevieve
Album: 211 Photograph : Waters

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #404.

 1905
Album: 211 Photograph : 324 Weston, Kendall
Album: 211 Photograph : 325 Wheeler, Ellie
Album: 211 Photograph : 326-329 Whitman, Sarah Helen
Album: 211 Photograph : 330 Wilberforce, Octavia
 1943
Album: 211 Photograph : 331 Wilberforce, Octavia
 1943
Album: 211 Photograph : 332 Wilberforce, Octavia
 1943
Album: 211 Photograph : 333-334 Wilberforce, Octavia
 1943
Album: 211 Photograph : 335 Wilberforce, Octavia
 1943
Album: 211 Photograph : 336 Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany
Album: 211 Photograph : 337 Wilms, Guillermo
 1888
Album: 211 Photograph : 338 Wilson, Joe C.
 1880
Album: 211 Photograph : 339 Wilson, Joe
Album: 211 Photograph : 340-342 Wilson, Lillie
Album: 211 Photograph : 343 Wilson, Paul H.
 1880
Album: 211 Photograph : 344 Wilson, Tom
Album: 211 Photograph : 345 Wilson, Thomas P.
 1880
Album: 211 Photograph : 346 Wilson, Tom
Album: 211 Photograph : 347-351 Unidentified
Album: 211 Photograph : Unidentified by E. Steichen

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #405.

 1907
Album: 211 Photograph : Unidentified mother and child

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #406.
Album: 211 Photograph : Unidentified ?actress

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #407.
Album: 211 Photograph : Unidentified ?actress

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #408.
Album: 211 Photograph : Unidentified peasant women

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #409.
Album: 211 Photograph : Unidentified

Scope and Content

See Album 222, #410-412.

Subseries C: Robins Family

Scope and Contents note

Subseries C contains photographs of Elizabeth Robins' immediate family. There are childhood portraits of her brothers and sister, and the earliest Elizabeth Robins photograph, taken when she was approximately three years old. The most numerous photographs in this subseries are of her brother, Raymond Robins, including several oversize prints. The subseries also includes three daguerreotypes.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Album: 211 Photograph : 1-4 Jane H. Robins
Album: 211 Photograph : 5 Ephraim Robins

Scope and Content

See also items 276-281
Album: 211 Photograph : 6-8 Charles E. Robins
 1871
Album: 211 Photograph : 9-10 Charles E. Robins
Album: 211 Photograph : 11-12 Hannah M. Robins
Album: 211 Photograph : (?)Mrs. Hannah Robins

Scope and Content

See Album 219, #241.
Album: 211 Photograph : 13 Charles, Sarah and Eugene Robins
Album: 211 Photograph : Sarah Sullivan Robins

Scope and Content

See also items 276-281
Album: 211 Photograph : 14-17 Eugene Robins
Album: 211 Photograph : 18-19 Eugene Robins

Scope and Content

See also Series IX, Subseries "miscellaneous" Item 276 "Eugene Robins"

 1864
Album: 211 Photograph : 20-22 Elizabeth Robins
 1865?
Album: 211 Photograph : 23-28 Elizabeth Robins
 1871
Album: 211 Photograph : 29-30 Edward Robins
 1864?
Album: 211 Photograph : 31-36 Eunice (Una) Robins
 1871
Album: 211 Photograph : 37-38 Saxton Robins
 1871
Album: 211 Photograph : 39-41 Saxton Robins
 1873
Album: 211 Photograph : 42 Saxton Robins
Album: 211 Photograph : 43 Vernon Robins
 1873
Album: 211 Photograph : 44-47 Vernon Robins
 1873
Album: 211 Photograph : 48-49 Vernon Robins

Scope and Content

See also Album 225, #9.
Album: 211 Photograph : 50 Vernon and Raymond Robins
 1881
Album: 211 Photograph : 51 Vernon Robins and "Uncle Carl"
Album: 211 Photograph : 52 Raymond Robins
Album: 211 Photograph : 53 Raymond Robins
Album: 211 Photograph : 54 Raymond Robins
 1917
Album: 211 Photograph : 55 Raymond Robins
 1917
Album: 211 Photograph : 56 Raymond Robins
 1917
Album: 211 Photograph : 57 Raymond Robins

Scope and Content

See also Album 223, #59-70.
Album: 211 Photograph : 58 Raymond Robins and Margaret Dreier Robins
Album: 211 Photograph : Photographic geneology

Scope and Content

See Album 223, #57-58.

Subseries D: Alaska

Scope and Contents note

Subseries D records Robins' journey to the Alaskan Klondyke in 1900. It also includes photos given to her by friends in Alaska and those taken by commercial photographers. Gold mining, Eskimo life, Yukon River landscapes, and the early towns of Alaska receive extensive coverage. A small number of these photographs have been published in Robins' Raymond and I.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Album: 212 Photograph : 1-335 Alaska Photographs
Album: 212 Photograph : Alaska -- see Album 17, #336-421
Album: 212 Photograph : See also Oversize Material, Box 7 , #422-423
Album: 213 Photograph : Alaska scrapbook
Album: 214 Photograph : Alaska scrapbook

Subseries E: Backettstown

Scope and Contents note

Subseries E contains an album of photographs taken at Backsettown, including interior and exterior shots of the brick-and-timber main house and of people associated with life there. There are many photographs of Octavia Wilberforce farming Backsettown's fields or tending to its cows; of Elizabeth Robins's ward, David Scott, growing up there. Postcard shots of the village of Henfield and its environs are also contained in it.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Album: 215 Photograph : 1-233 Backsettown photographs

Subseries F: Chinsegut

Scope and Contents note

Subseries F is made up of two albums of photographs taken at Chinsegut, the Hernando County, Florida estate where Elizabeth Robins' brother, Raymond, lived. This subseries includes many candid photographs of Margaret Dreier Robins and her sister, Mary Dreier, both of whom were active in the women's movement in the United States. The reconstruction of the main house is well documented, as are the crops, flora and fauna of Chinsegut. This subseries contains a fine collection of photographs of the black servants who worked for the Robinses, providing a chronicle of their domestic and work experiences in rural Florida during the first quarter of this century.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Album: 216 Photograph : 1-271 Chinsegut photographs
Album: 217 Photograph : 272-459 Chinsegut photographs

Subseries G: Colorado and Other Places

Scope and Contents note

Places visited by Elizabeth Robins and unidentified landscape photographs are contained in Subseries G. There are a few stereographs from Summit, Colorado, which include shots of gold mining camps.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Album: 218 Photograph : 1-3 Colorado: Little Annie Cabin
Album: 218 Photograph : 4-6 Colorado: Little Annie Gold Mine
Album: 218 Photograph : 7-13 Colorado
Album: 218 Photograph : 14-21 Chicago
 ca. 1903
Album: 218 Photograph : 22 Derwentwater, England
Album: 218 Photograph : 23-25 Gallipoli
Album: 218 Photograph : 26-27 Valour House, Southwest Harbor, Maine
Album: 218 Photograph : 28-29 Zanesville, Ohio

Scope and Content

See also Oversize Material, Box 270, Folders 3 and 4.
Album: 218 Photograph : 30-43 Miscellaneous
Album: 218 Photograph : 44 Miscellaneous
Album: 218 Photograph : 45 Miscellaneous
Album: 218 Photograph : 46 Miscellaneous
Album: 218 Photograph : 47 Miscellaneous
Album: 218 Photograph : 48 Miscellaneous
Album: 218 Photograph : 49-82 Miscellaneous

Scope and Content

See also Oversize Material, Box 270, Folder 5.

Subseries H: Negatives

Scope and Contents note

Subseries H contains all of the negatives found in Series IX; they are numbered consecutively but divided by subject categories.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Album: 219 Photograph : 1-4 Subseries B: Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst
Album: 219 Photograph : 5-27 Subseries D: Alaska
Album: 219 Photograph : 28-127 Subseries E: Backsettown
Album: 219 Photograph : 128-240 Subseries F: Chinsegut
Album: 219 Photograph : 241 Glass negative -- (?) Mrs. Hannah Robins
Album: 219 Photograph : 242 Glass negative -- Longfellow's "Evangeline"

Over 5"x7"
Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Album: 220 Photograph : 129-163 Subseries A: Elizabeth Robins

Scope and Contents

See also Oversize Material, Box 269 Folders 6 and 7, #164-175.
Album: 221 Photograph : 352-382 Subseries B: General Portraits
Album: 222 Photograph : 383-412 Subseries B: General Portraits

Scope and Content

See also Oversize Material, Box 269, #413-421.
Album: 223 Photograph : 52-70 Subseries C: Robins Family

Scope and Content

See also Oversize Material, Box 269, #71-72.
Album: 223 Photograph : 336-421 Subseries D: Alaska

Scope and Content

See also Oversize Material, Box 270, #422-423.
Album: 223 Photograph : 234-246 Subseries E: Backsettown
Album: 224 Photograph : 460-473 Subseries F: Chinsegut

Miscellaneous
Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Album: 225 Photograph : 1 Subseries A: Elizabeth Robins and ca. 1885 Fanny [Heury?], tintype
 1885
Album: 225 Photograph : 2 Subseries B: Albert Cordes, Miss Cordes and Julius von Sachs, tintype
Album: 225 Photograph : 3 Subseries B: Bessie Guthrie and Nellie Buckingham, tintype
Album: 225 Photograph : 4 Subseries B: B.H. Journeay, tintype
Album: 225 Photograph : 5-8 Subseries B: unidentified
Album: 225 Photograph : 9 Subseries C: Vernon Robins and Mary Buck Robins scrapbook
Album: 225 Photograph : 10 14th Century carved ball from Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Box: 276 Subseries B: Edward Crow, Jr., daguerreotype
Box: safe Subseries B: Poe, Edgar Allen, daguerreotype
Box: 276 Subseries B: unidentified, daguerreotypes
Box: 276 Subseries C: Ephraim Robins, daguerreotype
Box: 276 Subseries C: Eugene Robins, ?daguerreotype
Box: 276 Subseries C: Sarah Sullivan Robins, daguerreotype

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