ELIZABETH CHENEY COLLECTION, caELIZABETH CHENEY COLLECTION, ca

Elizabeth Cheney collection of visual materials

By Cheney, Elizabeth F. (Elizabeth Florence), 1902-1986.

Finding Aid for the Collection at the Chicago History Museum, Research Center

By Diane Ryan, 1986; rev. by D. Rinder, 2008; revised by Dana Lamparello, 2017.

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Title: Elizabeth Cheney collection of visual materials [graphic]

Main entry: Cheney, Elizabeth F. (Elizabeth Florence), 1902-1986.

Inclusive dates: ca. 1850-1970 (bulk 1890-1920)

Size:

Call #: 1986.0302 PPL:

20 albums containing photographic prints ; 29 x 40 cm. (11 1/2 in. x 16 in.) or smaller.

2888 photographic prints (in 20 albums) : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.

1811 photographic prints : b&w ; 45 x 38 cm. (17 1/2 x 15 in.) or smaller.

163 photographs : cabinet card ; 17 x 11 in. (6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)

42 photographs : carte de visite ; 11 x 7 cm. (4 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)

16 photographic prints : cyanotype ; 12 x 19 cm. (4 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.) or smaller.

30 photographs : tintype ; 9 x 7 cm. (3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.) or smaller.

7 photographs : ambrotype ; 12 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.) or smaller.

6 photographs : daguerreotype ; 15 x 12 cm. (6 x 5 in. or smaller.

345 photomechanical prints : postcard ; 9 x 14 cm. (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)

11 photomechanical prints ; 14 x 19 cm. (5 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)

6 photomechanical prints : viewbook ; 11 x 16 cm. (4 x 6 1/2 in.)

3 albums containing photomechanical prints ; 32 x 26 cm. (13 x 10 1/2 in.) or smaller.

Call #: 1986.0302 PCLF:

93 photographic prints : col. ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Call #: 1986.0302 PPN0019:

2 photonegatives : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.

Call #: 1986.0302 PNN:

487 negatives : cellulose nitrate ; 10 x 15 cm. (4 x 6 in.) or smaller.

Call #: 1986.0302 PGN0009:

24 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.

Call #: 1986.0302 PCT0018:

4 transparencies : stereograph, col. ; 35 mm.

Call #: 1986.0302 PNG:

1 folder of non-graphic material.

Accession #: 1986.0302

Restriction: To examine glass negatives or a cased image (daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes) it is necessary to make an advance appointment by email to Research@chicagohistory.org or by U.S. mail to the Research Center. Cased images may be handled only by conservation staff of Chicago History Museum.

Restriction: Nitrate reference copies available online.

Terms of use: Photographs made before 1900 may not be photocopied.

Alternative format available: Nitrate reference copies available online http://digitalcollection.chicagohistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16029coll5/id/1507

Description of the collection:

Photographs from the estate of Elizabeth Cheney, Oak Park (Ill.) resident, antique collector, daughter of Florence and William Wallace Cheney, and last in the line of descendants of Chicago pioneer Philo Carpenter. Includes portraits of Elizabeth Cheney primarily as a child and young adult. Also includes formal and informal portraits from several family branches, particularly Carpenter, Cheney, Clary, Dole, Forbes, Hooker and Solomon families; and interiors and exteriors of homes (ca. 1900) and farms, many in the Chicago area and midwestern United States. Vacation snapshots, generally in albums, show Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, and the western United States, notably Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Parks. Albums also contain snapshots of the World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, Ill. : 1893). Loose photographs, some commercial, depict the Century of Progress world's fair (Chicago, Ill. : 1933-1934). Postcards include some images of the 1893 and 1933 world's fairs and views of the United States, including a series of Georgian style doorways in Massachusetts. Scrapbooks (ca. 1882-1912) contain clipped images of theatrical personalities, a courtship tale illustrated with clippings, and greeting cards.

Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include the Elizabeth F. Cheney papers.

Gift of Elizabeth Cheney, 1986 (1986.0302).

Series: 1. Homes and haunts; 2. Portraits; 3. Various subjects; 4. Postcards; 5. Albums; 6. Nitrate negatives.

Storage: Box Lot (16 11 x 14 in. boxes, 2 16 x 20 in. boxes, 4 8 x 10 in. boxes, 8 4 x 5 in. boxes), 3 folders of various media, 1 folder of non-graphic material

Processing note: Only black-and-white photograph print formats and nitrate negatives are included in the container list; color, oversized, acetate negatives, and non-graphic material are not included.

List of online catalog headings:

Carpenter, Philo, 1805-1886.

Cheney, Elizabeth F. (Elizabeth Florence), 1902-1986.

Cheney, Florence (Florence Eliza Hooker)

Cheney, William Wallace, 1877-

Clary family.

Dole family.

Forbes family.

Harlow family.

Hooker family.

Solomon family.

Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.)

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

Doors and doorways -- Massachusetts.

Dwellings -- Chicago Metropolitan Area.

Dwellings -- United States.

Families -- Illinois -- Chicago Metropolitan Area.

Interiors -- Illinois. -- Chicago metropolitan area.

Mothers & children -- Chicago metropolitan area.

Women -- Illinois -- Chicago metropolitan area.

Actors -- United States.

Actresses -- United States.

Children -- Illinois -- Oak Park.

Courtship & love.

Canada -- Pictorial works.

Chicago Metropolitan Area (Ill.) -- Biography.

Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works.

Hawaii -- Pictorial works.

Massachusetts -- Pictorial works.

Mexico -- Pictorial works.

Oak Park (Ill.) -- Biography.

Wisconsin -- Pictorial works.

Yellowstone National Park -- Pictorial works.

Ephemera.

Greeting cards.

Group portraits.

Periodical illustrations.

Postcards.

Scrapbooks.

Snapshots.

Souvenir viewbooks.

Albumen prints.

Ambrotypes.

Cabinet card photographs.

Card photographs.

Carte de visite.

Cellulose nitrate negatives.

Cyanotypes.

Daguerreotypes.

Film negatives.

Tintypes.

Container list of box and folder numbers and titles:

Series 1. Homes and haunts (black-and-white photographic prints) | Call#: 1986.0302 PPL

Box 1 Homes & haunts

1 Albums, small paper (see also Box 27 for a large album of interiors in the Chicago area)

2 Carpenter family

3 Cheney Farm (Marseilles, Ill.)

4 Clary family

5 Dole family

6 Hooker family

7 Identified--Chicago area

Box 2

1 Identified--Outside Chicago area

2 Unidentified

3 Hooker Paint & Glass Company

Series 2. Portraits (black-and-white photographic prints, cased images, and tintypes) | Call#: 1986.0302 PPL

Box 3

1 Carpenter family

2 Cheney, Elizabeth F.

3 Cheney, Elizabeth F.--Club activities, ca. 1950

4 Cheney, Elizabeth F.--Vacation, ca. 1950

5 Cheney, Elizabeth F.--Youth

Box 4

1-2 Cheney, Florence Eliza (Hooker)

3 Cheney, William Wallace, Jr.

4 Cheney family

5 Clary, Anna Augusta (Solomon)

6 Clary, Aubrey Randolph

Box 5

1 Dole, Andrew Rollins

2 Dole, Mary Durand (Hooker)

3 Dole family

4 Dole family--Snapshots

Box 6

1 Forbes, Fannie E. (Hooker)

2 Forbes, Florence Eliza

3 Forbes, Henry Hooker

4 Forbes, Mary Louise

5 Forbes family

Box 7

1 Harlow family

2 Hewitt, Norman B.

3 Hooker, Mrs. Henry M.

4 Hooker, Henry Martyn

5 Hooker family

Box 8

1 Solomon, Anna Thompson (Cheney)

2 Solomon, Charles Hamilton

3 Solomon, Grace Geraldine

4 Solomon, Wallace (William Wallace)

5 Solomon-Clary family

6 Solomon family--Snapshots

7 Wilson family

Box 9

1 Identified, A-D

2 Identified, E-G

3 Identified, H

4 Identified, I-Z

Box 10

1 Unidentified females (mostly card photographs)

2 Unidentified females (mostly mounted photographs)

Box 11

1 Unidentified males (mostly card photographs)

2 Unidentified males (mostly mounted photographs)

3 Identified groups

4 Unidentified groups

Box 12 Portraits--Cased images

1 Solomon, Charles Hamilton

2 Carpenter, Abel?

Box 13

1 Carpenter, Theodore

2 Clary, Anna Augusta

3 Solomon, William N. (2)

Box 14

1 Carpenter, Philo

2 Unidentified female

3 Unidentified person

Box 15

1 Philo Carpenter, Jr.

2 Carroll, Christmas

3 Unidentified male & female (double portrait)

Box 16 Portraits--Tintypes

1 Cheney, Florence Eliza (Hooker)

2 Cheney, William Wallace, Jr.

3 Dole, Mary Durand (Hooker)

4 Hewitt, Fannie

5 Hewitt, Norman B.

6 Solomon, Charles H.

7 Unidentified male

8-9 Unidentified females

10 Album of gems (Mary Dole's)

Box 17 Portraits--Small framed photoprints

1 Cheney, Anna (Carpenter)

2 Cheney, William Wallace, Sr.

3 Clary, Anna Augusta (Solomon) [1937]

4 Clary, Anna Augusta (Solomon)

5 Solomon, Anna Thompson (Cheney)

6-7 Unidentified female

Box 18 Portraits--Large

1 Identified, A-Z

2 Unidentified

3 Miscellaneous photographs (Hooker house, Chinese children, opera)

Series 3. Various subjects (black-and-white photographic prints) | Call#: 1986.0302 PPL

Box 19

1 Antiques

2 Automobiles

3 Century of Progress

4 Graves

5 Miscellaneous

6 Pets & other animals

7 Vacation--Eastern & Midwestern U.S.

8 Vacation--Mexico, 1899

9 Vacation--Western U.S.

Series 4. Postcards | Call #: 1986.0302 PPL

Box 20 Postcards

United States, A-M

Box 21

United States, N-Z

Non-United States

Box 22

Chicago

Century of Progress

Series 5. Albums (black-and-white photographic prints) | Call#: 1986.0302 PPL

Box 23

1 Grace Geraldine Solomon's album, 1888-1912

2 Eleanor Conn's album, ca. 1959

3 Forbes' family homes & haunts

4 Lake Geneva, ca. 1912

5 Anna Clary's pocket album, ca. 1950-1965

Box 24

1 Grace Harlow's album of card photographs, ca. 1882

Box 25

1-2 Anna Thompson Solomon's albums, ca. 1881-1925

Box 26

1 Theatrical scrapbook

2 Florence E. Cheney's greeting card scrapbook, ca. 1882-1900

3 Place cards and loose greeting cards

Box 27

1 Residential interiors in the Chicago area, ca. 1900

2 William Wallace Cheney, Jr.'s album of Western U.S. and Canada, ca. 1900

3 Florence Cheney's album, 1902-1904

Box 28

1-2 Vacation snapshots of California and Mexico

Box 29

1-2 Vacation snapshots of Yellowstone National Park and Hawaii

3 Florence Cheney's vacation album of Canada, Niagra Falls, Massachusetts, Mexico and California (partially captioned)

Box 30

1 "The story of Grace & Grant," a scrapbook of clippings forming a tale of courtship and marriage, compiled by LMB [Lulu M. Burkhardt?], December 25, 1909

Box 31

1-4 Vacation albums with snapshots of the Western United States, the World's Columbian Exposition, and Massachusetts, ca. 1890-1912

Series 6. Nitrate negatives | Call#: 1986.0302 PNN

Box 1 Various subjects A-Z

Box 2 Dole Family snapshots

Box 3-4 Vacation snapshots in Eastman binder