King photograph 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.