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Album 2, circa 1907-1913

 File — Box: 1

Dates

  • circa 1907-1913

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research use.

Extent

218 Photographic Prints

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Notes

30 x 25 cm., contains 218 photoprints, circa 1907-1913.

Subjects are the family and friends of John T. King, Jr., primarily young adults boating and camping. Locations include Blakemore, Chesapeake Bay, the Shenandoah Valley and River and the Natural Bridge, Bull’s Falls, Charlestown, Luray and Luray Dam, Riverton, Brumback’s Bloomery, Yancy's (estate/farm?), Elkton Bridge, Mt. Crawford, McGaheysville, Washington D.C. during the 1913 inauguration of Wilson, Baltimore's Druid Hill Park.

People identified include Jack King (John T. Jr.?) and King sisters Chase, Anne(?) and Hester, Dr. and Mrs. McCarty, Capt. Yancy and family, Hull family, Jack and Amelia B., Fess, Chase, Eloise and Marion, Claude, Sam, Mait, Dick, Charlie Carver, Harold, Henry (family? of Limeton), Brumback (couple?), Kaufmann family of Mauk's Mill in the Shenandoah Valley.

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection consists of one photoprint, a copy of a 19th century portrait of Benjamin Gees, and two albums, containing 145 and 218 photoprints, respectively.

One album circa 1907 contains 145 photoprints and one film negative showing children and teenagers, mostly girls, and young adults. The children may be students at the Miss Porter's School at Farmington, Connecticut. These photographs include many outdoor recreation scenes, including ice-skating, tennis, and water sports. There are many informal group portraits which are undated and unidentified, and a group class photograph with some people identified. Included are clear images of buildings in an unidentified town, an unidentified harbor or river, a library, and theatrical productions.

The other album dates to circa 1907-1913, and contains 218 photoprints depicting the family and friends of J.T. King, Jr., showing young adults engaged in leisure activities, especially boating, camping in Maryland and in the Shenandoah Valley (Virgina), with a few pictures of people in Baltimore and the 1913 Wilson inauguration in Washington D.C. People depicted include family and school friends, as well as people residing in the areas visited by King: the Henry family of Limeton, a Captain Yancy and his family, and the Kaufmann family of Mauk's Mill in the Shenandoah Valley.

The 1907 album includes a group of newspaper clippings and ephemera dealing with a 1934 dinner honoring Joseph Dill Baker held in Frederick, Maryland; the circa 1907-1913 album contains xerox papers of obituaries of Dr. J.T. King, Jr. and a bibliography of Dr. King's scholarly publications, 1912-1964.

Repository Details

Part of the H. Furlong Baldwin Library Repository

Contact:
H. Furlong Baldwin Library
Maryland Center for History and Culture
610 Park Avenue
Baltimore MD 21201 United States
4106853750