CARR-HERON-MORSE COLLECTION, 1860s-1930s

Storage: Box Lot (4 boxes 8 x 10 in., 1 box 11 x 14 in.)

Accession Number: G1986.0430

Description of the Collection

Summary: Portraits of members of the Carr-Heron-Morse family who

settled in Chicago in the 1850s. Includes photos of Dr. Jonathan Carr

and his brother Camilo C.C. Carr, a brigader general in the U.S. Army

who served in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War and was

stationed in Kansas. Many photos depict events related to his

military career. Also includes formal family portraits as well as

snapshots of other family members, including Phoebe Morse, a Chicago

school teacher until her retirement in the 1930s.

Container List

Box 1

1 Heron family

2 Heron, Amelia and Lester, residence - interior

3 Heron, Amelia and Lester, residence

4 Heron, Lester Graham

5 Heron, Mrs (Steven?), 1933

6 Heron, Lester Graham, ancestors, 1927

7 Heron, Amelia Morse, 1897

8 Heron, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Graham - Christmas cards

Box 2

1 Morse, Benjamin

2 Morse family

3 Morse, Phoebe

4 [Morse], Amelia Heron, Lester Heron and Phoebe Morse

5 Morse, Phoebe and Amelia with other young ladies

6 Morse and Heron families on steps

7 Morse, Phoebe - Christmas cards

8 Church of the Redeemer

9 Carr, Camillo C.C.

10 Carr, Col. "wife of"

11 Carr, Wattson and Maria Carr

12 Carr family including Jonathan

13 Identified - family connections

Box 3

1 Miscellaneous

2 Margaret Anna Meade (6 mo.)

3 Groups - unidentified

4 Men - unidentified

5 Not family - identified

6 Women - identified (school friends?)

7 Women - unidentified (school friends?)

8 Lewis B. Fisher and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Karsen

9 J.F.Conners

Box 4 Cased images

Maria Graham Carr (?)

Jonathan Carr

Maria Graham Carr and sister

Wattson Carr

C.C.C. Carr

Phoebe Morse

Box 5

1 Justin L. Whitlock Dart

2 Unidentified woman

3 Brown School, Chicago, 1895

4 Lester Graham Heron

5 Woman reading a Bible

6 Unidentified man

7 Phoebe Morse and fellow teachers

8 Frances Jane Dart Morse

9 Frances Jane Dart Morse

10 Benjamin Morse

11 Ink drawing of ladies & minstrels (1854)

Album - C.C.C. Carr military photos