Pullman, Lowden, and Miller families photograph
collection, ca. 1850-1987
Descriptive inventory for the collection at the Chicago Historical Society
by Carrie Van Horn and Tim Ladwig in July 2004.
Copyright © 2004, Chicago Historical Society, Clark St. at North Ave., Chicago, IL 60614-6071
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Title: Pullman, Lowden, and Miller families photograph collection, ca. 1850-1987
Span dates: ca. 1850-1987.
Physical
description:
Call#:
2002.0259 PPL:
ca. 2,000 photographic prints: b&w; 18 x 22 in. and smaller Series 1.
22 photo albums including b&w ; .Series 1.
Call#:
2002.0259 PPN-0342-0343:
830 photographic negatives: b&w; 4 x 5 in. and smaller Series 2.
Call#:
2002.0259 PCP-0232:
68 photographic prints: color; 8 x 10 in. and smaller Series 3
Accession#: 2002.0259.2
Restriction: Advance appointment required to view color material in cold storage or negatives in cool storage; email research@chicagohistory.org for access.
Restriction: A small additional accession 1967.0532 is unprocessed. Contact research@chicagohistory.org for access to unprocessed portions. Staff will typically respond to your inquiry within two weeks. However, due to the high volume of inquiries and depending upon the nature of your request additional time may be required to respond. Please note that not all material will be available for researcher access due to condition, location, staff availability, confidentiality and/or other factors. Scheduling an appointment to view available material may require several additional weeks.
This descriptive inventory includes:
Summary description of the collection,
Biographical note,
Description of related materials,
Provenance statement,
List of online catalog headings,
Storage designations,
Processing note,
Container list of box/folder numbers and titles.
Summary
description of the collection:
This collection includes photographs related to the George M. Pullman family and his descendants, primarily through the lineage of Florence Lowden Miller, granddaughter of George M. Pullman and daughter of Illinois Governor Frank Orren Lowden. It also includes materials related to the Pebbles family, the ancestors of Dr. Charles Phillip Miller, husband of Florence Lowden Miller.
Early items in the collection include many studio portrait photographs of George M. Pullman and his wife Harriet Sanger Pullman, as well as of their children Florence, Harriet, George M., Jr., and Walter. Other photographs include many individual and family group portraits; interior and exterior views of Castle Rest on Pullman Island in the St. Lawrence Seaway near Alexandria Bay, New York; the Pullman residence “Fairlawn” in Elberon, New Jersey; and interior and exterior views of Pullman railroad cars.
Twentieth-century photographs related to the Frank Orren Lowden family include numerous family albums including photoprints and cabinet card photographs of the Lowden children (George, Florence, Harriet and Frances) as children, teenagers, and adults, including their weddings and spouses and their children. This extended family is composed of Lowden, Madlener, Drake, and Miller families. Other Lowden photographs include interior and exterior photographs of the Governor’s mansion in Springfield, Illinois; Sinnissippi Farm in Oregon, Illinois; and the many national and international travels of Florence Sanger Pullman Lowden and Frank Orren Lowden.
The collection includes a large number of photographs of the Miller family, including views from their travels, both nationally and internationally. Mrs. Miller was a noted philanthropist, and she is shown at many events accepting awards or commendations. Also present are photographs of physician, Dr. C. Phillip Miller and his colleagues in the field of medical pathology; the Miller residence at 5757 Kimbark Avenue near the University of Chicago; and many snapshots of the Miller children, Phillip Lowden Miller and Warren Pullman Miller.
Materials about Dr. Miller's relatives in the Pebbles family include images of the Alonzo Warren Pebbles family homes in Oak Park (Ill.) and at Lake Marie (Antioch, Ill.); portraits painted by the artist Frank Marion Pebbles; and assorted photographs related to the Reed and Tingley families, relatives of the Pebbles.
Many identifications of images were made by Florence Lowden Miller (Mrs. C. Phillip Miller).
Biographical
note:
Industrialist George Mortimer Pullman founded the Pullman Palace Car Company. Florence Sanger Pullman Lowden, daughter of George Mortimer Pullman, married Illinois Governor Frank Orren Lowden in 1896. Florence Lowden Miller, daughter of Frank Orren Lowden and Florence Sanger Pullman Lowden, married Dr. Charles Phillip Miller in 1931. Family members include George and Harriet Pullman and their children George, Jr., Walter, Harriet (Schermerhorn), and Florence (Lowden); Florence and Frank O. Lowden and their children George, Harriet, Frances, and Florence (Miller); Florence and Dr. C. Phillip Miller and their children Warren and Phillip.
Dr. C. Phillip Miller was a descendant of the Samuel Pebbles family (or "Peebles" as it was called until 1856, when the spelling was changed). Mr. Miller’s grandfather, Alonzo Warren Pebbles, owned a paint store and was a prominent citizen in Oak Park, Illinois
Description
of related materials:
Related materials at the Chicago Historical Society include Pullman and other portrait photographs in the Image file and the Image flat-file; the Pullman family photograph collection (1987.0010); Frank O. Lowden photograph album (1986.0079); George M. Pullman papers; the Florence Lowden Miller genealogical charts and other collections. Eight cased images transferred to the Cased Images Composite Collection at the Chicago Historical Society.
Provenance statement:
This collection was a joint gift of Warren P. Miller and Phillip L. Miller.
List of
online catalog headings:
The following headings for this collection were placed in the online catalog:
Subjects:
Miller, Florence Lowden, 1898- (Mrs. C. Phillip Miller)
Miller, C. Phillip (Charles Phillip), Dr.
Lowden, Frank O. (Frank Orren), 1861-1943
Lowden, Florence (Florence Sanger Pullman), ca. 1866-1937.
Pullman, George Mortimer, 1831-1897
Pullman, Harriett Sanger, 1842-1921.
Schermerhorn, Harriett Pullman, 1868-
Pullman, George Mortimer, 1875-1903.
Pullman, Walter Sanger, 1875-1905.
Pebbles, Alonzo Warren
Pullman family
Lowden family.
Miller family.
Pebbles family.
5757 South Kimbark Avenue (Chicago, Ill.)
Fairlawn (Elberon, N.J.)
Sinnissippi Farm (Oregon, Ill.)
Families--Illinois--Chicago. lctgm
Governors--Illinois. lctgm
Physicians--Illinois--Chicago. lctgm
Women--Illinois--Chicago. lctgm
Chicago (Ill.)--Social life and customs.
Lake Marie (Antioch, Ill.)--Social life and customs.
Pullman Island (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
Form/genre headings:
Silver gelatin prints. gmgpc
Albumen prints. gmgpc
Cabinet card photographs. gmgpc
Cartes de visite. gmgpc.
Tintypes. gmgpc
Film negatives. gmgpc
Photograph albums. gmgpc.
Photographic prints--Color. gmgpc
Portrait photographs. gmgpc
Added entry headings:
Pebbles, Frank Marion, artist.
Miller, Florence Lowden, 1898- ,photographer.
Storage
designations:
Call#: 2002.0259 PPL: Series 1. Black & white photographs and albums
Call#: 2002.0259 PPN-0342-0343: Series 2. Black & white negatives
Call#: 2002.0259 PCP-0232: Series 3. Color photographs
Processing note:
Collection processed by Carrie Van Horn and intern Tim Ladwig in July 2004.
Container list:
Call#:
2002.0259 PPL:
Series 1: Black and white photographic prints and albums:
(ca. 2,000 photographic prints; b&w; 18 x 22 in. and smaller; 22 photo albums)
Box 1
1 Emily Caroline Minton Pullman
2 Royal Henry Pullman and family
3 George Mortimer Pullman
4 Harriet Sanger Pullman Carolan Schermerhorn & Florence Sanger Pullman Lowden
5 Harriet Sanger Pullman Carolan Schermerhorn
6 George Mortimer Pullman Jr.
7 Walter Sanger Pullman
8 George Mortimer Pullman, Jr., & Walter Sanger Pullman
9 Pullman family portraits
10 Emma Caroline Pullman Fluhrer; Elsa Arndt Fluhrer; Helen Pullman Fluhrer
11 Louis Pullman Fluhrer; Minton Fluhrer
Box 2
1 Harriet Sanger Pullman Carolan Schermerhorn
2 Harriet Sanger Pullman Carolan Schermerhorn
3 Mary Katherine McKibbon Sanger
4 Sanger family [miscellaneous, includes James Young Sanger]
5 George Pullman Sanger; Mrs. George Pullman Sanger
Box 3
1 Florence Sanger Pullman Lowden
2 Florence Sanger Pullman Lowden
3 George Mortimer Pullman Lowden
4 George Mortimer Pullman Lowden
5 Frances Orren Lowden Drake
6 Frances Orren Lowden Drake
7 John B. Drake IV
8 Barbara Lowden Drake
Box 4
1 Frank Orren Lowden and Florence Sanger Pullman Lowden
2 Frank Orren Lowden
3 Frank Orren Lowden
4 Nancy E. Bregg Lowden
5 Lowden family children [George, Florence, Harriet, Frances]
6 Lowden family children [George, Florence, Harriet, Frances]
7 Lowden family portraits and extended family, including Lowden sisters reunion 1926 and Lowden home in Iowa Falls
8 Unidentified villa in Italy, 1923, photographs addressed to Florence Lowden
9 Friends and family of Pullmans- group portraits, identified
10 Friends and family of Pullmans- group portraits, identified
11 Friends and family of Pullmans- group portraits, identified
12 Friends and family of Pullmans- group portraits, identified
Box 5
1 Friends and family of Pullmans- female portraits, identified
2 Friends and family of Pullmans- female portraits, identified
3 Friends and family of Pullmans- female portraits, identified
4 Friends and family of Pullmans- female portraits, identified
5 Friends and family of Pullmans- female portraits, identified
6 Friends and family of Pullmans- female portraits, identified
7 Friends and family of Pullmans- female portraits, identified
8 Friends and family of Pullmans- female portraits, identified
9 Friends and family of Pullmans- female portraits, identified
10 Friends and family of Pullmans- female portraits, identified
Box 6
1 Friends and family of Pullmans- female portraits, identified
2 Friends and family of Pullmans- female portraits, identified
3 Friends and family of Pullmans- male portraits, identified
4 Friends and family of Pullmans- male portraits, identified
5 Friends and family of Pullmans- male portraits, identified
6 Friends and family of Pullmans- male portraits, identified
7 Friends and family of Pullmans- male portraits, identified
8 Friends and family of Pullmans- male portraits, identified
9 Margaret E_der’s studio in Florence, Italy
[contains furniture from Pullman family house on Prairie Avenue]
10 Sanger Pullman; Tracy Pullman; Ruth Pullman
11 F.A. Pullman; Mrs. A.B. Pullman
12 Lewis Pullman West
Box 7
1 Dr. C. Phillip Miller and Florence Lowden Miller
2 Phillip and Warren Miller
3 Florence Lowden Miller
4 Florence Lowden Miller
5 Florence Lowden Miller at Westover School, Middlebury (Conn.) ca. 1914
6 Florence Lowden Miller’s 80th Birthday celebration, 1978
7 Florence Lowden Miller and others, in envelope labeled “For Florence on her 80th Birthday, from Helen Dick”
8 Miller residence (5757 Kimbark Avenue in Hyde Park) includes Warren and Phillip Miller
9 Miscellaneous: includes ceremonial building demolition; Armistice Day celebration, 1919
10 Charles Phillip Miller Senior
11 Emily Louise Pebbles Miller
12 Emily Louise Pebbles Miller
13 Jessie Pebbles Ingalls
14 Alice May Pebbles Baker; Frederick George Baker; Robert Francis Baker
Box 8
1 Alice Pebbles; Class M. Pebbles; Elizabeth Jane Reed Pebbles
2 Pebbles family possibly at Lake Marie, Antioch (Ill.) or at Channel Lake, Lake County (Ill.)
3 Pebbles family possibly at Lake Marie, Antioch (Ill.) or at Channel Lake, Lake County (Ill.)
4 Pebbles family possibly at Lake Marie, Antioch (Ill.) or at Channel Lake, Lake County (Ill.)
5 Alonzo Warren Pebbles family home at Lake Marie, Antioch (Ill.)
6Alonzo Warren Pebbles
7 Frank Marion Pebbles [painter]
8 Samuel Pebbles family
Box 9
1 Egbert Moore Tingley, Jr.; Margaret Cuthall Pebbles Tingley
2 E.B. Tingley family, 1971 and 1975
3 Pebbles family, includes Pebbles family gravestones in Postville, Wisconsin
4 Samuel Eugene Pebbles; Ebenezer Reed
5 Miscellaneous with Pebbles family: includes Simpson family at Cheyenne Creek (Calif.);
Reed family gravestones
6 Philander Pebbles; Robert Pebbles; Samuel Pebbles
7 Mary Johnson Warren Pebbles; Magie Pebbles
8 Henry Reed Pebbles
9 Miscellaneous with Pebbles family: includes Baco_n Mansion, Maysville, Montana;
postcard to Jessie Ingalls Pebbles; unidentified houses
10 Friends and family of Pebbles family- identified
11 Friends and family of Pebbles family- male portraits, identified
Box 10
1 Elberon, New Jersey ca. 1910: Harriet Sanger Pullman with Lowden grandchildren
2 Castle Rest ca. 1910: Lowden and Pullman families
3 Saint Lawrence River ca. 1911
4 California: unidentified building and grounds
5 Lowden family vacation to Grand Canyon
6 Charles Phillip Miller in Jasper Park, 1932
7 Sinnissippi Farm, Oregon (Ill.) ca. 1933: buildings exteriors;
includes Lowden, Madlener, Drake and Miller families
8 Sinnissippi Farm ca. 1910: includes Pullman and Lowden families
9 Sinnissippi Farm ca. 1930: includes Lowden, Madlener, Drake and Miller families
10 Sinnissippi Farm ca. 1932: buildings exteriors and grounds
11 Sinnissippi Farm ca. 1931: includes Lowden, Madlener, Drake and Miller families
12 Christmas at Sinnissippi Farm 1934: Lowden extended family portrait
13 Florence Lowden Miller and Charles Phillip Miller wedding, 1931
14 Florence Lowden Miller and Charles Phillip Miller, 1932
15 Miller family “Summer trip 1934”: includes unidentified church; unidentified marina
16 Pullman Island ca. 1932: Lowden children and grandchildren
17 Miscellaneous with Miller: “Picnic country house” with children holding American flags
18 Snapshots ca. 1930 [probably taken by Florence Lowden Miller] of downtown Chicago and monuments as well as buildings around the University of Chicago campus
19 Unidentified apartment, probably of Miller family, ca. 1930
20 Snapshots ca. 1932 [probably taken by Florence Lowden Miller] of Chicago: includes Art Institute of Chicago; possibly the Museum of Science and Industry; possibly the University of Chicago campus
21 Chicago Worlds Fair ca. 1933: includes Florence Lowden Miller
22 Castle Rest ca. 1960
23 Sinnissippi Farm ca. 1916; possibly children of tenants
24 Snapshots of officers on Patrol Craft Escort (rescue) Boat 851, ca. 1945
Box 11 Miller family travel photographs
1 Mexico: including Mayan pyramids
2 Mexico
3 Cairo: camels, desert
4 Italy, 1929
5 Possibly Russia
6 Possibly Russia: includes group photos of Dr. Miller’s colleagues from medical school
7 Spain, 1921
8 Baden Baden, Near East, including Egypt, ca. 1935
Box 12
1 Dr. C. Phillip Miller
2 Photos related to Dr. Miller’s medical career, individual and group photos of colleagues
3 Frances Orren Lowden Drake
4 George Mortimer Pullman Lowden
5 Lowden family: extended
6 Nancy and Frank O. Madlener [includes Harriet Lowden Madlener]
7 Harriet Frances Lowden Madlener
8 Florence Sanger Pullman Lowden
9 Isabel Lowden, also Dr. Eleanor Lowden in group photo
10 Harriet Sanger Pullman Carolan Schermerhorn and Arthur F. Schermerhorn
11 Helen Pullman Fluhrer
Box 13
1 Lowden grandchildren [children of Miller, Drake, Madlener, Lowden]
2 Lowden grandchildren [children of Miller, Drake, Madlener, Lowden]
3 Lowden grandchildren [children of Miller, Drake, Madlener, Lowden]
4 Friends and family of Miller, Pebbles, Pullman families- assorted
5 Group of boys in uniform ca. 1910: includes Marshall Field III; Charles H. Wacker, Jr.; Henry Field; George Hinman Jr.
6 Interior of Pullman Memorial Church, Albion, New York
7 Photos of an unidentified household interior – mid 20th century [possibly Miller household]
Box 14
1 Pullman family
2 George M. Pullman and George M. Pullman Lowden
3 Florence Lowden Miller: includes several pictures at 1917 Masque of Illinois Centennial Pageant
4 Correspondence & photos to Florence Miller from archeological excavation site, Turkey, 1929
5 Frank and Florence Lowden
6 Lorenzo Lowden family
7 Harriet Sanger Pullman
8 Sanger gravestone
9 Pebbles family
10 Materials given to Florence Lowden: includes a signed photograph of the Archbishop of Chicago, George Cardinal Mundelein, 1924
11 Emily Caroline Minton Pullman
12 Isabel Lowden
Box 15
1 Pullman rail cars
2 Pullman rail car made for the president of Mexico, 1927
3 Pullman car exteriors
4 Pullman car interiors
5 Pullman car interiors
6 Interior photographs of Sinnissippi Farm ,Oregon, Illinois
7 [probably] “Fairlawn” residence interior, Elberon, New Jersey
8 [probably] “Fairlawn” residence interior, Elberon, New Jersey
9 Governor’s executive mansion , Springfield, Illinois [interior and exterior]
10 Unidentified residence, interior and exterior
11 Unidentified household interior, mid 20th century [possibly Miller home]
12 Rush Medical College, University of Chicago, class of 1918
Box 16
Photo album, ca. 1900, interior and exterior views of Fairlawn,Elberon (N.J.)
Box 17
Photo album, ca. 1880s, Castle Rest, Pullman estate on Pullman Island in Alexandria Bay (N.Y.)
Box 18
Photo album: Lowden children and friends at Sinnissippi Farm ca.1916 and Thousand Islands ca. 1915. Also photographs of Florence Lowden Miller at Westover School, Middlebury (Conn.)
Box 19
Photo album given to Mrs. Florence Sanger Pullman in 1884 in remembrance of her birthday, from Hubert S. Brown. Contains cabinet cards of unidentified individuals.
Box 20
Photo album containing photographs of Florence Lowden Miller with unidentified group on vacation in the Rocky Mountains, ca. 1920s
Box 21
Photo album containing photographs of Gov. Frank Lowden and Mrs. Florence Pullman Lowden traveling through Denmark, Sweden, and France ca. 1926
Box 22
Photo albums of Florence Lowden Miller, travel photographs ca. 1922
vol.1: Mediterranean cruise with stops in Algiers, southern France and Italy
vol.2: Belgium and Paris
Box 23
Photo albums of Florence Lowden Miller, travel photographs ca. 1921
vol.1: Spain
vol.2: Naples; Rome; Perugia
vol.3: Florence; Venice; Lake Como; Switzerland; France
vol.4: England
vol.5: France
Box 24
Photo albums of Florence Lowden Miller and Frances Lowden Drake
vol. 1: [Frances] Arizona; Honolulu; Sinnissippi Farm; Thousand Islands 1922
vol. 2: [Frances] Sinnissippi Farm; Castle Rest 1922
vol. 3: [Florence] Sinnissippi Farm, 1921 and 1922
vol. 4: [Florence] “Summer 1922” includes Castle Rest; Henderson Harbor; Bretton Woods; Sound Beach, South Manchester
Box 25
Photo albums of Florence Lowden Miller
vol. 1: Sinnissippi Farm; Huron Mountain ca. 1920s
vol. 2: Arizona; Hawaii 1923
vol. 3: Italy 1923 and 1924
Box 26
Photo albums
vol. 1: Lowden family at Castle Rest 1926; Lake Forest 1927; Sinnissippi Farm 1928
vol. 2: Governor Frank Lowden and Mrs. Florence Pullman Lowden’s travels, primarily in Germany in the mid 1930’s
Box 27
Photo album: Lowden family travels in Egypt, Palestine, and Greece, 1929
Box 28
Photo album: “Amateur Photographs F.P.L.” Includes informal snapshots, ca. 1900, of Lowden family and children. Also includes Pullman Island; the St. Lawrence River; Sinnissippi Farm; Thomasville; Pullman house on Prairie Avenue and various other family photographs.
Call#:
2002.0259 PPN-0342-0343:
Series 2: Black and white photographic negatives: 4 x 5 inches and smaller.
Box 1
Miller family travel negatives organized alphabetically by location. Negatives loosely correspond to photographic prints in Series I boxes 10 and 11. Includes: Egypt and Middle Eastern sites, Greece, Italy, and, also homes and properties in Chicago, at Sinnissippi Farm, and Pullman Island
Box 2
Miller family travel negatives organized alphabetically by location. Negatives loosely correspond to photographic prints in Series 1 boxes 10 and 11. Includes: Egypt, Mexico, Norway, and Sinnissippi Farm
Call#: 2002.0259 PCP-0232:
Series 3: Color
photographic prints: 8 x 10 inches and smaller.
Box 1
1 Florence Lowden Miller. includes
photographs of Mrs. Miller with Eleanor and George McInnes,
1987; Florence at the Sessions Club, 1987
2 Dr. Charles Phillip Miller receiving
degree of Masters of the America College
of Physicians, N. J.
3 Florence and Charles Miller; also
includes Kimberly Lowden Miller and Jennifer Pullman Miller
4 Miller and Tingley families
5 Photographs of paintings by Frank M.
Pebbles
6 Pebbles family house in Oak Park,
Illinois
7 Pebbles family gravestones at Forest Home
Cemetery
8 Joseph Warren gravestone in Hermitage, N.
Y.
9 Robert and Sarah Pebbles gravestones in
Manchester, New Hampshire
10 Pebbles family gravestones in Postville,
Wisconsin
11 Robert F. Baker's 50th anniversary 1973
12 Lowden family gravestone 1978
13 Florenden Plantation ca. 1977