Wells-Shaw family photograph collection, ca. 1870-1920
Descriptive Inventory for the
Collection at the Chicago History Museum, Research Center
© Copyright 2017, Chicago
Historical Society, 1601 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614-6038
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Title: Wells-Shaw
family photograph collection, ca. 1870-1929, bulk 1880-1899
Main entry: Shaw,
Frances Wells, 1872-1937
Inclusive dates: ca. 1870-1929, bulk 1880-1899
Accession #:
1980.0019
Extent:
Call #: 1980.0019 PPL
2 albums (156 photographic
prints) ; 30 x 24 cm. (11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.) or smaller.
3 albums (89 cartes de visite, 5 photographic
prints, 4 tintypes) ; 16 x 14 cm. (6 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.) or smaller.
61 photographic prints : b&w ; 23 x 32 cm. (9 x 12 1/2 in.) and smaller.
18 photographs : cabinet card
; 11 x 17 cm. (4 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
16 photographs : carte de visite ; 7 x 11 cm. (2 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.)
1 photograph : tintype ; 8 x
11 cm. (3 x 4 1/2 in.)
1 photomechanical print :
col. ; 15 x 18 cm. (7 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.)
1 drawing : ink drawing ; 18
x 17 cm. (7 x 6 1/2 in.)
Call #: 1980.0019 PNN:
26 negatives : cellulose
nitrate negative ; 4 x 5 in.
Call #:1980.0019 PPN-0086:
1 negative : b&w ; 5 x 7 in.
Restriction:
To examine the tintypes, it is necessary to make an advance appointment by
email to Research@chicagohistory.org or by U.S. mail to the Research Center.
Tintypes may be handled only by conservation staff of Chicago History Museum.
Restriction:
Nitrate negatives restricted from access, see reference copies instead.
Alternative format available: Nitrate reference copies available online http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/1442.
Summary: Cartes de
visite albums include portraits of Chicago area
residents, members of the Wells, Shaw, and Searls
families. Photoprint albums show a house party for Martha Wells at Lake Geneva
(Wis.). Includes group portraits of guests, a horseback riding excursion,
scenes of the lake and local railroad platforms. Collection also includes
snapshots of Howard Van Doren Shaw family, presumably taken in the Chicago
area. Loose photoprints are primarily portraits of members of the Wells and
Shaw families plus friends, Ragdale estate in Lake
Forest, and Howard Shaw's living quarters as a student at Yale (ca.1890). A
large rolled photograph shows a panoramic view from the veranda of the Mountain
Meadows Inn in Asheville (N.C.). Nitrate negatives depict a Canadian camping
trip. One photonegative has a portrait of Frances Wells Shaw. The ink drawing
is a page decoration for a book.
Organization:
box: 1-2. Cartes de visite
albums, box 3-4. Photograph albums, box 5. Loose photographs, box 6. Rolled photograph.
History:
Howard Van Doren Shaw, architect, and Frances Wells Shaw, writer, had 3
daughters: Evelyn Shaw McCutcheon, 1894-1977 (married John T. McCutcheon),
Sylvia Shaw Judson Haskins, 1897-1978 (married Clay Judson and after his death,
Sidney Haskins), and Frances Theodora Shaw King (known as Theodora), 1913-1996
(married John Lord King).
Provenance statement:
Gift of Alice Ryerson, 1979
(1980.0019).
Related material:
Related materials at Chicago
History Museum, Research Center, include cased images from this accession that
are individually cataloged, the Shaw-Wells family papers, and the Sylvia Shaw
Judson Haskins papers.
List of online catalog headings:
The following headings were
placed in the online catalog for this collection.
Shaw, Frances Wells, 1872-1937
Subject headings:
1. Acton, Hortense (Hortense
Mitchell)
2. Atkinson, C. T.
3. Atkinson, Martha (Martha
Wells)
4. Childs, Martha (Martha Searls)
5. Donnelly, Ted.
6. Farmington, Grace (Grace
Otis)
7. Searle family
8. Shaw, Frances Wells, 1872-1937
9. Shaw, Howard Van Doren, 1869-1926
10. Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson,
1897-1978
10a. McCutcheon, Evelyn Shaw,
1894-1977
11. King, Theodore Shaw,
1913-1996
12. Shaw family
13. Van Doren, William
Howard.
14. Wells, Fannie (Frances Searls)
15. Wells, Martha
16. Wells, Moses D.
17. Wells, Nathalie.
18. Wells family
19. Ragdale
(Estate : Lake Forest, Ill.)
20. Yale University
21. Camping--Canada.
22. Children--Illinois--Chicago
Metropolitan Area.
23. Dwellings--Illinois--Lake
Forest.
24. Dwellings--Wisconsin--Lake
Geneva.
25. Families--Illinois--Chicago
Metropolitan Area.
26. Fathers & children--Illinois--Chicago
Metropolitan Area.
27. Horseback riding--Wisconsin.
28. Hotels & taverns--North
Carolina--Asheville.
29. Interiors--Connecticut--New
Haven.
30. Lakes & ponds--Wisconsin--Lake
Geneva.
31. Railroad stations--Wisconsin.
32. Universities &
colleges--Connecticut--New Haven.
33. Weddings--Illinois--Chicago
Metropolitan Area.
34. Women--Clothing &
dress--Illinois--Chicago Metropolitan area.
35. Chicago Metropolitan Area
(Ill.)
36. Geneva, Lake (Wis.)
37. Lake Forest (Ill.)--Social
life and customs.
38. Lake Geneva (Wis.)--Social
life and customs.
Form/genre headings:
Albumen prints.
Cabinet card photographs.
Cartes de visite.
Cellulose nitrate negatives.
Film negatives.
Group portraits.
Ink drawings.
Panoramic photographs.
Panoramic views.
Photograph albums.
Photomechanical prints--Color.
Portrait photographs.
Silver gelatin prints.
Tintypes.
Added entries:
Shaw, Howard Van Doren, 1869-1926
Wells family
Shaw family
Container list of box/folder numbers and titles:
Box 1-2
Carte de visite
albums
Box 3-4
Photoprint albums
Box 5 Loose photoprints:
1 Acton, Hortense (Hortense
Mitchell)
2 Atkinson, C. T.
3 Atkinson, Martha (Martha
Wells)
4 Book illustration (from
Mrs. McCutcheon's Book of Poems)
5 Childs, Martha (Martha Searls)
6 Donnelly, Ted
7 Farmington, Grace (Grace
Otis)
8 Ragdale
estate (Lake Forest, Ill.)
9 Shaw, Frances L. (Fannie L.
Wells)
10 Shaw, Frances L. (Fannie
L. Wells)--Wedding
11 Shaw, Frances Theodora
12 Shaw, Howard Van Doren
13 Shaw, Theodore A.
14 Shaw family--Evelyn,
Sylvia, Theodora
15 Unidentified:
Photo assemblage of
unidentified town and dwelling
Dwelling
Man in garden
Man and woman in boat
Carte de visite
inscribed: "Lovingly, Lu" (Atlantic City, N.J.)
16 Van Doren, Willliam Howard
17 Wells, Frances (Fannie Searls)
18 Wells, Moses D.
19 Wells, Nathalie
20 Wells family--Frances and
Martha with father Moses
21 Yale University, ca.
1890--Howard Shaw's rooms at Lawrence Hall
Box 6 Rolled photo of
Mountain Meadows Inn (Asheville, N. C.), ca. 1900
B&W negatives 1980.0019 PPN-0086
5 x 7 in. portrait of Frances
Wells Shaw (Mrs. Howard Van Doren Shaw)
Nitrate negatives 1980.0019 PNN
26 snapshot views of Canadian
camping trip, 1907