Coriell-Hardy photograph collection
Abstract
This collection contains portraits of members and friends of the Coriell and Hardy families of Baltimore, Maryland.
Dates
- 1845-1916
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use
The reproduction of materials in this collection may be subject to copyright restrictions. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine and satisfy copyright clearances or other case restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the collections. For more information visit the MCHC’s Rights and Permissions page.
Biographical / Historical
Isaac Coriell (died 1882) was a contractor, and Alvin Coriell (died 1904) was a lumber merchant. Alvin married Mary Lawrence Coriell, and one of their sons was Dr. Louis Duncan Coriell (1878-1953), a dentist. In the 1860s, Isaac and Alvin both lived at 631 West Lombard St.
Lewis M. Bower was a butcher listed at the same address as the Coriells in 1865. He married Mary Ellen Coriell in 1862, and they later moved to a home at 494 Saratoga Street, while Bower did business at 40 Centre Street and at the Lexington and Hanover Markets. After Lewis died in 1882, Mary Ellen Coriell Bower moved to 49 North Poppleton Street, and worked as a dressmaker.
Katherine Coriell (1875-1936) married George E. Hardy (1868-1931), George E. Hardy, Jr. (died 1980) was their son, and their daughters were Katherine, Mary, and Clare. At different times, the family lived in the Mt. Vernon area and in Roland Park. The elder George E. Hardy was a prominent dentist and medical professor who came to Baltimore from Lunenberg County, Virginia at age 20, then graduated from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery (1888) and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1889). He soon became a clinical instructor at the dental college, and was later appointed professor of physicology, which post he held until 1923.
George E. Hardy, Jr. also became a dentist, and practiced for 44 years, mainly at the Medical Arts Building in Baltimore. He had attended City College, graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1923, and from dental school in 1926. He married Elizabeth Scarlett.
Extent
1.0 Linear Feet (1 flat box)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Seven uncased photographs are housed in one folder along with three photographs which are framed but not cased. The 18 cased photographs are individually wrapped and in variable arrangement within the box. None of the items have been numbered or arranged to correlate with the inventory. Until further arrangement can be done, the only way to match objects to the inventory listings is to compare dimensions and description of the photo cases.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Katherine Hardy Harper, 1984.
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one box containing one folder with ten uncased photographs, and 18 individually wrapped cased photographs. Subjects are members and friends of the Coriell and Hardy families, including Alvin and Isaac Coriell, Mary Ellen Coriell Bower, Mary Ellen Irby Hardy, George Hardy, Jr., and a "Miss Townson, governess". There are many daguerreotypes in the collection, plus ambrotypes and tintypes.
The collection also includes a cloth scrapbook of die-cuts and other pictorial ephemera.
- Title
- Guide to the Coriell-Hardy photograph collection
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- Katherine Cowan
- Date
- 1999-10
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- 2020-01-28: Manually entered into ArchivesSpace by Mallory Herberger.
Repository Details
Part of the H. Furlong Baldwin Library Repository
H. Furlong Baldwin Library
Maryland Center for History and Culture
610 Park Avenue
Baltimore MD 21201 United States
4106853750
specialcollections@mdhistory.org