George W. McConkey and Eliza Coale McConkey, circa 1855

The collection consists of 1 box with 50 photographs, including daguerreotypes, tintypes, and albumen cartes de visite studio portraits, primarily from years ca. 1860 through 1900, with a few earlier and later items. Subjects are Rider, White, McConkey, Haslup and Bateman family portraits, with pictures of their houses and other sites in the Ruxton area of Baltimore County. There is a group portrait of "The Literary Club of Ruxton at Thornton".