ca. 1850-1911; bulk: 1860-1890
Guide to the Photograph Collection
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Portions of this collection are available as color digital facsimiles (see links below). Where digital facsimiles are available, use of the originals is restricted.
Abstract
This collection consists of photographs collected by Dall and Healey family members from 1850-1911, including carte de visite portraits of various members of the Healey, Dall, and Foster families and prominent American figures, and commercially-produced tintypes and cartes de visite collected by William Healey Dall that depict places and colleagues from his journey with the Western Union Telegraph Expedition from California to Alaska and the Yukon, as well as Civil War soldiers and sailors.
Biographical Sketches
Mark Healey (1791-1876)
Mark Healey, born in New Hampshire, was a merchant and banker. His first financial successes were in shipping and importing, and he served as first president of Merchants' Bank, president of the Atlantic Mutual Fund, and as a railroad director. Healey suffered a financial reversal during the Panic of 1837, leading to his family's bankruptcy, from which they recovered. After converting in early adulthood, Healey was a dedicated adherent of Unitarianism. He was a close confidant of his daughter Caroline.
Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1822-1912)
Caroline Wells Healey Dall was born in Boston to Mark Healey (1791-1876) and Caroline Foster (1800-1871). Caroline's father took great interest in her schooling, and she was well-educated in private schools and by tutors. Following a temporary financial reversal that led to the Healey family bankruptcy in 1837, Caroline became a teacher, and she was vice-principal at Miss English's School for Young Ladies in Georgetown, D.C. from 1842 to 1844. She was active in the Unitarian Church, and shared religious interests led to her marriage in 1844 to minister Charles Henry Appleton Dall. They had two children, William Healey Dall (1845-1927) and Sarah Keene Dall (b. 1849), and they lived in Baltimore, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Needham, Massachusetts, and Toronto as Charles served various parishes. The marriage was troubled, and in 1855, Charles became a Unitarian minister-at-large in India while his family remained in Boston.
In addition to her activity in the Unitarian community, Caroline also became interested in transcendentalism and the ideas of Margaret Fuller in the 1840s. She wrote Essays and Sketches (addressing Christian themes) in 1849 and became a women's rights activist and a more prolific writer after Charles's move to India, relying in large part upon her lecturing and writing to support herself and her family. Perhaps the most influential of her many books is The College, the Market, and the Court; or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and Law (1867). Caroline lived in Washington, D.C. with her son William after 1879.
Charles Henry Appleton Dall (1816-1886)
Charles Henry Appleton Dall, a Unitarian minister and missionary, was born in Baltimore to James Dall, Sr. (1781-1863) and Henrietta Austin Dall (b. 1788). In 1824, Charles was sent to Boston, where he lived with relatives of his father, for his schooling. Charles graduated from Harvard College in 1837 and Harvard Divinity School in 1840. In 1841, Charles was ordained a Unitarian evangelist, and he served as a minister-at-large in St. Louis from 1840 to 1842, in Baltimore from 1843 to 1845, and in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1846. He served as a pastor in Needham, Massachusetts from 1847 to 1849 and Toronto from 1850 to 1854.
Charles met with mixed success as a minister, which led, along with his marital difficulties, to his move to Calcutta, India in 1855. He served there as the first and only American Unitarian foreign missionary, where he was minister to the European and American Unitarian congregation and founded and directed several schools, but he found difficulty winning converts to Unitarianism. Charles lived in India until his death, visiting the United States in 1862, 1869, 1872, 1875, and 1882.
William Healey Dall (1845-1927)
William Healey Dall was born in Boston to Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1822-1912) and Charles Henry Appleton Dall (1816-1886). He married Annette Whitney in 1880 and had two sons and one daughter.
Although he did not attend college, William became a noted natural historian, paleontologist, and malacologist. As a teenager, William found mentors in physician and naturalist Augustus A. Gould, Harvard zoologist Louis Agassiz, and the faculty of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. In 1863, he became a clerk in the land office of the Illinois Central Railway, which led to his appointment in 1865 to the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to Alaska and the Yukon. He became a member of the California Academy of Science and gathered specimens on the Pacific Coast when he passed through California in the spring of 1865. During his three years of travel, he collected thousands of biological specimens, studied indigenous Alaskan linguistics, and completed the first detailed examination of the resources of the interior of the territory. With his 1870 book Alaska and Its Resources, William was recognized as the nation's leading expert on Alaska. From 1871 to 1884, he worked for the United States Coast Survey, where he directed a scientific survey of the Aleutian Islands and adjacent coasts. Beginning in 1884, he served as paleontologist for the Geological Survey, and he performed research on mollusks at the U.S. National Museum in Washington, D.C. He continued to work in his office at the Smithsonian Institution after his 1923 retirement until his death.
Sources
Benjamin, Marcus. "William Healey Dall. " Dictionary of American Biography. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1928-1936. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, 2003. Available at: http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC.
"Caroline Wells (Healey) Dall." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, 2003. Available at: http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC.
"Caroline Wells Healey Dall. " Feminist Writers. Detroit: St. James Press, 1996. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, 2003. Available at: http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC.
"Dall, Caroline Wells Healey." American Reformers. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1985. Reproduced in Wilson Biographies Plus Online. New York: H.W. Wilson, 2003.
Genzmer, George H. "Caroline Wells Healey Dall. " Dictionary of American Biography. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1928-1936. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, 2003. Available at: http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC.
Rose, Anne C. "Dall, Caroline Wells Healey." American National Biography, vol. 6. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. pp. 26-27.
Schneider, Robert A. "Dall, Charles Henry Appleton." American National Biography, vol. 6. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. pp. 27-29.
Thomas, Phillip Drennon. "Dall, William Healey." American National Biography, vol. 6. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. pp. 29-30.
Collection Description
The Dall-Healey family photographs contain 297 nineteenth-century photographs in three albums and one narrow box, consisting primarily of cartes de visite, as well as eleven paper-based prints, six daguerreotypes, and five tintypes in three albums and one narrow box. The photographs date from between 1850 and 1911. Among the photographers represented are F. Gutekunst of Philadelphia, Bradley & Rulofson (Henry William Bradley and William Herman Rulofson) of San Francisco, Calif., Henry Ulke of Washington, D.C., and James Wallace Black, A. Sonrel, and John Adams Whipple of Boston, Mass.
The bulk of the photos date from ca. 1860-1890 and are commercial portrait cartes de visite of various Dall, Foster, and Healey family members, as well as family friends and acquaintances. A few prominent figures, including Lucretia Mott and Thomas K. Beecher, are also represented.
The photographs in the William Healey Dall carte de visite album are commercial photographs, many of which reflect Dall's interest in natural history, including photographs of scenes from his journey to Alaska and the Yukon, photos relating to anthropological and botanical interests, and portraits of fellow naturalists and colleagues from the Western Union Telegraph Expedition. Several of the photos depict Civil War soldiers and sailors.
Acquisition Information
This collection was removed from the Dall-Healey family papers, which were a gift to the Massachusetts Historical Society from Whitney and Barbara K. Dall in June 2002.
Restrictions on Access
Portions of this collection are available as color digital facsimiles (see links below). Where digital facsimiles are available, use of the originals is restricted.
Other Formats
Portions of this collection are available as color digital facsimiles.
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Photographs in AlbumsDigital Content
Arranged according to original order within each volume.
A. Vol. 1: William Healey Dall carte de visite album, ca. 1858-1911Digital Content
Three tintypes and 189 commercially-produced cartes de visite in one album belonging to William Healey Dall (WHD). A number of the photos reflect his interest in natural history (including anthropological and botanical aspects). All scenes are from his journey with the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to Alaska and the Yukon. The bulk of the photos are portraits, many of which depict WHD's acquaintances and colleagues from the expedition and from time spent in California en route to Alaska and the Yukon. Several of the photographs depict soldiers and sailors. Among the notable figures represented in the album are Sir Charles Lyell, British civil servant in India. It is apparent that photographs of Dall and Healey family members, except for one of WHD, were removed from the album before it came into the possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society. The majority of the photographs could not be removed from the album, so inscriptions and other information from verso are available for only selected items.
Photos. 69.1-10 are loose photographs that were found between the pages of Volume 1. They have been removed to Box 1 (Series II. Loose photographs).
Bulkley, Charles S., ca. 1861-1865.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man in Western Union uniform, ca. 1861-1865.
Photographer unknown.Hyde, William B., n.d.
Taken by Wm. Shew (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on back of photo: "Commander of Asiatic Party & a 'c.a.' / Red hair & freckles / W. H. Dall."
Kennicott, Robert (1835-1866), n.d.
Photographer unknown.Stickney, Carrie, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Inscription: "Carrie Stickney - Chicago."
Unidentified man, n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Fisher, Henry M., n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on back of photo: "Henry P. Fisher M.D. W.U.T. C.O.T. / W. H. Dall."
Chappel, Scott R., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Wright, George M., n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on back of photo: "Journalist of the Ex Ex. Therefore to be cultivated not on any other particular account. A sort of happy-go-lazy good empty vessel who's been a great way and seen almost nothing. W. H. Dall."
Wright, George S., n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on back of photo: "Geo. S. Wright adjutant Ex / W. H. Dall."
Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Lewis, J. F., n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on back of photo: "A draughtsman and rather more of an ass than anything else / W. H. Dall."
Wright, George S. and unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Fields, R. G., n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man in Western Union uniform, ca. 1861-1865.
Photographer unknown.Inscription: "le boulin"
Belinge, F. A. A., 1865.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on back of photo: "Draughtsman and a good fellow. / W. H. Dall."
O'Donoughue, W. O., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Inscription on back of photo: "W K O'Donoughue / "Quartermaster / C.O.T."
Hammond, M., n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on back of photo: "Truly yours / M. Hammond. / A queer devil / W. H. Dall"
Dow, George, n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on back of photo: "Geo. Dow / Colonel Bs boy / W. H. Dall."
Pollock, R. Starr, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Davison, Jonathan, ca. 1861-1865.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on back of photo: "W. H. Dall." [In Western Union uniform, seated]
Unidentified man, n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Black, James S., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Inscription on back of photo: "Nobody in general. / ?Hydes party in Asia/ W. H. Dall."
Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man in Western Union uniform, ca. 1861-1865.
Photographer unknown.Harding, Thomas C., 1866.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on back of photo: "Compliments of Thomas C. Harding / [Bark] Golden Gate San Francisco May 12, 1866."
Unidentified man in military uniform, ca. 1861-1865.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Taken by Bailey (San Francisco, Calif.).Ennis, William H., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Smith, F. M., Jr., ca. 1861-1865.
Photographer unknown.Adams, George Russell (1845-1938), 1865.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on front of photo: "Your Chum." Inscription on back of photo: "A carcajou & a brick / W. H. Dall."
Lebarge, Michel, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Inscription on back of photo: "Mike Le Barge / Per Denis."
Dennison, Thomas S., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Pease, Charles, Jr. (1835-1875), n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on back of photo: "Charley Pease Cleveland Ohio Youkon Ex Ex. / Wm. H. Dall."
Chappel, Jay B., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Bannister, Henry Martyn (1844-1920), 1865.
Taken by Henry Ulke (Washington, D.C.).Inscription on back of photo: "H M Bannister. / Paleontologist."
Cotter, R. D., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Libby, Paul B., n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription: "Paul B. Libby / W. U. Tel. Co."
Seftest, Ch[arles?], 1865.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on back of photo: "A good but wld fellow astronomer to Youkon Ex / Wm. H. Dall."
Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Lebarge, Michel, n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on back of photo: "Voyageur with R. Kennicott / W. H. Dall / Michel La berge."
[Whymper, Frederick (1838-1901)?], n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on verso: "F: Why super artist Ex - a jolly good fellow / W. H. Dall."
Bischoff, Ferdinand, 1865.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription: "Old Bischoff / Our bug man the best-beetle collector in the U.S. Once had charge of a museum in Germany. Wm. H. Dall"
Pope, Frank L., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Rothrock, Joseph Trimble (1839-1922), n.d.
Photographer unknown.Pope, Ralph W., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Scoville, Edward Hunter, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Butler, James, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Binnie, Robert, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Maynard, George W., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified boy, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Elliott, Henry Wood (1846-1930), n.d.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Bush, R. J., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man in Western Union uniform, ca. 1865.
Photographer unknown.[Inscription illegible.]
Kennan, George, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified boy, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Arnold, A. J., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Robinson, William W., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Scammon, C. K., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man in Western Union uniform, ca. 1865.
Photographer unknown.Norton, Jared, n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Inscription on back of photo: "Marine Service / W. H. Dall."
Two unidentified women and one unidentified man, n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Group view of Western Union officers on ship, ca. July-Aug. 1866.
Photographer unknown.Group view of Western Union officers on ship, ca. July-Aug. 1866.
Photographer unknown.Dall, William Healey, n.d.
Photographer unknown; cartoonist unknown.Photograph of Dall's face with ink cartoon drawn around it. Cartoon depicts Dall crouching to catch a snake in a forest.
Group of unidentified Western Union men, n.d.
Taken by Chas. H. Ryder (W. U. Telegraph Company's Photographic Artist).View of unidentified seascape, n.d.
Photograph of drawing. Photographer unknown; original artist unknown.View of ship at sea, n.d.
Photograph of drawing.Photographer unknown; original artist unknown.View of unidentified buildings surrounding a dirt yard with several unidentified people, n.d.
Taken by Chas. H. Ryder (W. U. Telegraph Company's Photographic Artist).View of five Native American men and women and one white man near small wooden structure with Heuston and Hasting Co. sign, mountains in background, n.d.
Taken by Chas. H. Ryder (W. U. Telegraph Company's Photographic Artist).View of mountains and glacial ice, n.d.
Photographer unknown.View of Western Union men with whale skeleton, n.d.
Photographer unknown.View of Native American family, n.d.
Taken by Chas. H. Ryder (W. U. Telegraph Company's Photographic Artist).Three unidentified men, n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).View of three unidentified men near lake, ships and mountains in background, n.d.
Photographer unknown.View of a group of unidentified men in front of wooden structure, mountains in background, ca. 1865-1867.
Photographer unknown.View of construction of wooden structure, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Group of unidentified men posed near stone fence, mountains in background, n.d.
Taken by Chas. H. Ryder (W. U. Telegraph Company's Photographic Artist).Esmark, Lauritz, 1871.
Photographer unknown.Inscription on back of photo: '"Nat. 1806, photog. 1871." Esmark was a19th-century Norwegian lepidopterist.
Portrait of unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Owne, Richard, n.d.
Taken by Eliott and Fry (London, England).Portrait of unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Portrait of unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Jewett, E., n.d.
Photograph of bas relief sculpture of man.Photographer unknown.Inscription on back of photo: "E. Jewett, Utica, NY."
Foreman, E., n.d.
Taken by John Goldin (Washington, D.C.).Portrait of unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.Portrait of unidentified man in Western Union uniform, ca. 1861-1865.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.Gill, Theodore, n.d.
Taken by K. W. Beniczky (New York, N.Y.).Hand-colored tintype.Inscription on back of photo: "Very truly yours, Theo [Gill]."
Cope, Edward D., n.d.
Photographer unknown.McGrath, D., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man in Western Union uniform, ca. 1861-1865.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man in Western Union uniform, ca. 1861-1865.
Photographer unknown.Meek, F. B., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Inscription on back of photo: "F. B. Mack (not A. L.! - m. n. d. 1980)."
Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Tintype.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Rothrock, F. J.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.Helidon, José O., 1868.
Taken by Henry Ulke (Washington, D.C.).Hand-colored carte de visite.Inscription on back of photo: "To my friend Mr. W. H. Dall / José O. Helidon."
Elliott, Henry Wood (1846-1930), n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Tyndale, [ ], n.d.
Photographer unknown.Lyell, Sir Charles, n.d.
Taken by Eliott and Fry (London, England).Stearns, R. E. C., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Stimpson, William, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif).Bolar, Marcus, n.d.
Taken by Watkins Art Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.).Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Taken by Vaughn (San Francisco, Calif.).Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored tintype.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified boy, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Same subject as Photo. #69.133.
Unidentified boy, n.d.
Taken by Selleck and Fisher (San Francisco, Calif.).Same subject as Photo. #69.132. Inscription on back of photo: "WHD."
Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified girl, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Taken by Bayley and Winter (San Francisco, Calif.).Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Bendel, [ ], n.d.
Photographer unknown.Smith, [ ], n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Portrait of a minister, standing and holding a skull, n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Bryant, Capt. [ ], n.d.
Photographer unknown.Bryant, [Mrs.], n.d.
Photographer unknown.Bryant, [Miss}, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified Russian Orthodox clergyman, n.d.
Photographer unknown.View of Sitka, Alaska, n.d.
Photographer unknown.View of Sitka, Alaska, n.d.
Photograph of drawing; caption in Cyrillic script. Photographer unknown; original artist unknown.Day, Benjamin, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Day [Mrs. Benjamin], n.d.
Photographer unknown.Inscription on back of photo: "Mrs Benj Day-Ann Arbor."
Herendeen, [Mrs.], n.d.
Taken by G. D. Morse.Possibly the wife of Capt. Edward Perry Herendeen.
Elmer, [Mrs.], n.d.
Photographer unknown.King, Edith, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Bullene, E. M., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Gore, A. J., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Wendte, C. M., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Taken by Hamilton & Kellogg (San Francisco, Calif.).[Klinkofstroem, Martin], ca. 1861-1865.
Photographer unknown.Klinkofstroem, Olga, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified woman, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified woman, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Plummer, [Miss], n.d.
Photographer unknown.Two unidentified women, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified woman, n.d.
Taken by Hamilton & Kellogg (San Francisco, Calif.).Unidentified woman, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified girl, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.Unidentified woman, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.Long, C. L., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Arbow, [Mrs. W.], n.d.
Photographer unknown.Low, Charles, 1865.
Taken by Addis and Koch (San Francisco, Calif.).Unidentified woman, n.d.
Taken by Bradley and Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man in military uniform, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.Unidentified man, 1870.
Taken by Henry Ulke & Bro. (Washington, D.C.).Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.Baird, Spencer Fullerton, ca. 1865.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.March, William, 1865.
Taken by G. Hardy.Unidentified man in military uniform, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.Unidentified girl, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Dall, Annette W., 1880.
Taken by Dana Portraits (New York, N.Y.).Unidentified man, n.d.
Taken by Elliott and Fry (London, England).Hand-colored carte de visite.Cat on table, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified boy, standing, ca. 1858-1862.
Taken by Silsbee, Case, & Co. (Boston, Mass.).Putnam, F. W., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Monument Hill near Malachin [Panama], ca. 1867-1868.
Photographer unknown.View of unidentified location in Panama, ca. 1867-1868.
Photographer unknown.View of Porta Rey, Panama, ca. 1867-1868.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified view of Panama (unidentified man in background), ca. 1867-1868.
Photographer unknown.Photo of 16 rectangles of paper labeled with different colors, ca. 1860-1874.
Taken by John A. Whipple (Boston, Mass.).Sign in photo: "Sensitive paper exposed to sunlight three minutes."
Nevins, Bridget, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Healey, Caroline Foster, ca. 1870-1874.
Taken by A. Sonrel (Boston, Mass.).Unidentified man, n.d.
Taken by Wm. Shew (San Francisco, Calif.).Unidentified man, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Carret, Martica, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Gordon, an enslaved man, showing his scarred back, ca. 1863-1867.
Taken by McPherson & Oliver, 1863; printed and distributed by C. Seaver, Jun. (Boston, Mass.).Inscription on album page: "Result of a flogging." Printed on back of photo: "'The Peculiar Institution' Illustrated. / Copy of a photograph taken from life at Baton Rouge, La., recently, the lacerated body-months after the brutal flogging had been inflicted-having healed in the manner represented. The alleged offense was a trifling one. How noble and benignant the countenance of the victim!"
B. Vol. 2: Healey-Dall family carte de visite album, ca. 1857-1881
Thirty-five cartes de visite depict Healey, Dall, and Foster family members, including William Healey Dall, Caroline Foster Healey, Caroline Wells Healey Dall, Sarah K. Dall, and Charles Henry Appleton Dall, as well as other relatives. Other photos depict family friends and acquaintances.
Dall, Joseph E., n.d.
Taken by P.L. Perkins (Baltimore, Md.).Inscription on back of photo: "Joseph E. Dall (bro. Of CHAD)."
Dall, William Healey, 1866.
Taken by Henry Ulke (Washington, D.C.).Inscription on album page: "Wm. H Dall / 19 yrs." Inscription on back of photo: "Rec'd Calcutta Aug 20 1866 direct via China from Willie then (May 10) about leaving for Arctic Seas San Francisco to . . . Petropaolski / God guard thee, boy!"
Dall, William Healey, n.d.
Taken by Bendann Bros. (Baltimore, Md.).Dall, William Healey, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Inscription on back of photo: "Sadie with love from brother Willie."
Dall, William Healey, 1871.
Taken by Henry Ulke & Bro. (Washington, D.C.), 1871.Dall, Caroline Wells Healey, ca. 1870-1874.
Taken by A. Sonrel (Boston, Mass.).Healey, Caroline Foster, ca. 1870-1874.
Taken by A. Sonrel (Boston, Mass.).Dall, S. K., ca. 1857-1861.
Taken by Southworth & Hawes (Boston, Mass.).Wyncoop, Theodore, 1869.
Taken by Sarony & Co. (New York, N.Y.).Inscription on album page: "Rev. Theo Wyncoop-son of Dr. & Mrs. Wyncoop 38 E. 12th St. N.Y.C. 1869." Inscription on back of photo: "My 'cousin Theo' Wynkoop / Son of Dr. and Mrs. Wynkoop (she was Aurelia Mills of N. Haven.) No. 38 East 12th St. New York City. / Mrs. W. gave me this the day I left N York for Eng--15 Apr 1869."
Dall, Nellie, 1869.
Taken by Stanton & Butler (Baltimore, Md.).Inscription on album page: "Nellie Dall of Balto aged 5 in 1869."
Unidentified child, ca. 1871-1876.
Taken by Bushby & Hart (Lynn, Mass.).Inscription on album page: "One of Mark Healey's children?"
Dall, William Healey, ca. 1861-1865.
Taken by Bradley & Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Dall, William Healey, ca. 1861-1865.
Taken by Bradley & Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.).Dall, Charles Henry Appleton, Jan. 1881.
Taken by Bourne & Shepherd Photographers (India).Inscription on back of photo: "To my dear friend and faithful co-worker Thomas Brown / with love from his old, old friend CHA Dall / Taken in Jan 1881 (age 65) / Sent from Boston Sept 1881."
Healey, Eunice Wells, n.d.
Taken by D. O. Furnald (Manchester, N.H.).Hand-colored carte de visite of a drawing or painting.Inscription on back of photo: "Eunice Wells married Healey."
Healey, Caroline Foster, ca. 1870-1874.
Taken by A. Sonrel (Boston, Mass.).Unidentified man, 1866.
Taken by Silas Selleck (San Francisco, Calif.).Unidentified man and two unidentified women, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified woman, ca. 1860-1874.
Taken by James Wallace Black (Boston, Mass.).Unidentified woman, ca. 1863-1864.
Taken by Case & Getchell (Boston, Mass.).Dall, William, ca. 1860-1874.
Taken by James Wallace Black (Boston, Mass.).Inscription on album page: "Uncle Wm Dall (CHAD'S Boston benefactor)."
Unidentified woman, n.d.
Taken by E. J. Palmer (Toronto, Canada).Unidentified man, ca. 1866-1871.
Taken by Edward L. Allen (Boston, Mass.).Unidentified man, n.d.
Taken by Hills & Saunders (Oxford and Eton, England).Quincy, Josiah, 1860.
Taken by Allen & Rowell (Boston, Mass.).Inscription on back of photo: "Josiah Quincy Boston. 1860. Aged 88 / From Miss Susan Quincy Aug. 1875."
Michel, Louise, n.d.
Taken by J. M. Lopez (Paris, France).Unidentified man, standing, leaning on chair, n.d.
Taken by Wm. Shew (San Francisco, Calif.).Portrait of unidentified man, n.d.
Taken by C. L. Cramer (San Francisco, Calif.).Bell, Saul, n.d.
Taken by A. R. Eaton (Manchester, N.H.).Whitredge, Thomas, ca. 1860-1861.
Taken by Black & Batchelder (Boston, Mass.).Unidentified woman, seated, leaning on covered table with book, holding fan, ca. 1860-1861.
Taken by Black & Batchelder (Boston, Mass.).Foster, Samuel H., 1865.
Taken by Heald & Bro. (West Lynn, Mass.).Photo of portrait painting.On verso: "Sam'l H. Foster / Born at Andover Mass / Died in N. York."
Whitredge, Alice Dickinson, 11 July 1863.
Photographer unknown.On verso: "taken 2 years ago / Alice Dickinson Whitridge of Horatio--11 1/2 July 63."
Whitridge, Olivia Cushing, Feb. 1863.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored carte de visite.On verso: "July 63 / Olivia Cushing Whitridge 19 yrs--of Horatio Whtge."
Whitredge, Horatio, ca. 1863.
Photographer unknown.On verso: "Horatio Lorenzo Whitridge / 46 next July 1863."
Whitredge, Thomas, n.d.
Photographer unknown.C. Vol. 3: Healey-Foster family carte de visite album, ca. 1847-ca. 1900
Forty-five cartes de visite depict Foster family members, friends and acquaintances of the family, and prominent figures. Among the notable people featured in the album are Thomas K. Beecher and Lucretia and James Mott. Of particular interest are photos depicting Fannie Langford of South Carolina instructing an African American man, Uncle Smart Washington, as well as a photo of Abraham Lincoln's tomb.
Ladd, Charles J., n.d.
Photographer unknown.Beecher, Thomas K., n.d.
Taken by Whitley (Elmira, N.Y.).Stevens, Mary, ca. 1871-1876.
Taken by Bushby & Hart (Lynn, Mass.).Channing, Eva, ca. 1860-1874.
Taken by J. W. Black (Boston, Mass.).Channing, Mary, ca. 1860-1874.
Taken by Frank Rowell (Boston, Mass.).Grace, Channing, ca. 1859-1869.
Taken by J. C. Spooner (Springfield, Mass.).Hunt, [Mrs. Seth], n.d.
Photographer unknown.Hunt, Seth, ca. 1859-1869.
Taken by J. C. Spooner (Springfield, Mass.)."Grandmamma Foster," 1865.
Taken by Heald & Bro. (West Lynn, Mass.).Photo of portrait painting.Foster, Samuel H., 1865.
Taken by Heald & Bro. (West Lynn, Mass.).Photo of portrait painting.Healey, [Capt.], ca. 1865.
Photographer unknown.On verso: "Capt. Healey, son of Squire Healey, Brigg., lately deceased. / Received from W Peacock, April 1865."
Healy, Squire, 1865.
Taken by James Walker (Doncaster, England).On verso: "Squire Healey of Lincolnshire, Engd. near Brigg / Lent me by Edwd Peacock, Esq., FSA / April 1865, In his 81st year."
Mott, Lucretia, n.d.
Taken by F. Gutekunst (Philadelphia, Penn.).Mott, James, n.d.
Taken by F. Gutekunst (Philadelphia, Penn.).Langford, Fannie & Lizzie, 1866.
Taken by Hubbard & Mix (Beaufort, S.C.)."My favorite pupil. Uncle Smart Washington, 41 yrs," 1866.
Taken by Hubbard & Mix (Beaufort, S.C.).Young white woman instructing African American man with a book. On verso: "Fannie Langford, 'Hooper' School, 'Old Fort' Plan, June 1866."
[Denman, Sarah Atwater], n.d.
Taken by G. & A. Moses (Quincy, Ill.).Earle, [Mrs. Edward], ca. 1866-1867.
Taken by I. A. Collins with G. Adams (Worcester, Mass.).On verso: "Mrs. Edward Earle Gave me this at Worcester, Oct 21 68."
Chamberlain, Agnes, n.d.
Taken by W. Notman (Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Halifax, Canada).Three men (two in uniform with guns) at President Lincoln's Tomb, Oak Ridge Cemetery, n.d.
Taken by F. W. Ingmire (Springfield, Ill.).Photo of portrait bust of Robert Gould Shaw, sculpted 1864 and photographed ca. 1864-1865.
Taken by Augustus Marshall (Boston, Mass.); originally sculpted by Edmonia Lewis.Unidentified woman and boy, possibly members of the Emerson family, ca. 1865-1874.
Taken by John Adams Whipple (Boston, Mass.).Inscription on album page: "Emerson."
Clarke, Alvan, n.d.
Taken by J. J. Hawes (Boston, Mass.).Wadsworth, Grace, 1865.
Taken by Black & Case, (Boston, Mass.).Walker, [Jos. P.], ca. 1867-1882.
Taken by Augustus Marshall (Boston, Mass.).Hale, [Mrs. Emory], n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified man, n.d.
Taken by R. A. Lewis (New York, N.Y.).Stevens, Ellen, ca. 1867-1881.
Taken by Carl Meinerth (Newburyport, Mass.).Henry, Joseph, 1868.
Taken by Henry Ulke (Washington, D.C.).Hedge, Caroline, ca. 1867-1882.
Taken by Augustus Marshall (Boston, Mass.).Earle, Edward, ca. 1864-1866. [Portrait.]
Taken by S. L. Walker (Worcester, Mass.).On verso: "Edward Earle Esq. (Given me by Mrs. Earle in Worcester Oct 21/68)."
Bond, [ ] in military uniform, ca. 1861-1864.
Taken by John Adams Whipple (Boston, Mass.).Brockway, Z., ca. 1863-1869.
Taken by A. Sonrel (Boston, Mass.).On verso: "Z. Brockway, Elmira Reformatory."
Hampton, Earle N., n.d.
Taken by A. B. Eaton (Manchester, N.H.).On verso: "Dr. Earle N. Hampton, Insane Asylum."
Unidentified man, ca. 1860-1866.
Taken by Charles R. B. Claflin (Worcester, Mass.).Unidentified woman, n.d.
Taken by E. J. Palmer (Toronto, Ont.).Bell, Mary, n.d.
Taken by A. B. Eaton (Manchester, N.H.).Inscription on album page: "Mary Bell sister of Mr. J."
Unidentified woman, ca. 1860-1874.
Taken by James Wallace Black (Boston, Mass.).Langford, [Fannie or Lizzie], ca. 1865-1874.
Taken by John Adams Whipple (Boston, Mass.).Bell, S. D., n.d.
Taken by A. B. Eaton (Manchester, N.H.).Inscription on album page: "S. D. Bell, Chief Justice of N.H."
Unidentified boy, a member of the Champiny family, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Unidentified girl, a member of the Champiny family, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Earle, [Mrs.], ca. 1860-1866.
Taken by Charles R. B. Claflin (Worcester, Mass.).Earle, [Mr.], ca. 1866-1867.
Taken by I. A. Collins with G. Adams (Worcester, Mass.).Ames, Charles G., n.d.
Taken by Wm. Shew (San Francisco, Calif.).II. Loose PhotographsDigital Content
This series includes six daguerreotypes of Healey and Foster family members, including Caroline Foster Healey, Caroline Wells Healey Dall, and Mark Healey. It also includes eight paper photographs of Healey and Dall family members and forebears, including Charles Henry Appleton Dall and Caroline Wells Healey Dall, and two tintypes of two unidentified women, as well as ten loose photographs that were removed from Vol. 3, William Healey Dall carte de visite album.
A. Daguerreotypes
Arranged alphabetically.
Caroline Wells Healey Dall, ca. 1854-1860.
Photographer unknown.Hand-colored oval daguerreotype in velvet case.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Daguerreotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 1).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Unidentified woman, ca. 1854-1860.
Photographer unknown.Sixth-plate daguerreotype in leather case.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Daguerreotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 1).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Samuel H. Foster, ca. 1840-1850.
Photographer unknown; original artist of painting unknown.Oversize quarter-plate daguerreotype in leather case of a portrait painting of Samuel H. Foster.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Daguerreotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 1).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Caroline Foster Healey, ca. 1854-1860.
Photographer unknown.Oval daguerreotype in velvet case.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Daguerreotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 1).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Caroline Foster Healey, ca. 1854-1860.
Photographer unknown.Oval daguerreotype in leather case.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Daguerreotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 1).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
Mark Healey, ca. 1850-1854.
Photographer unknown.Sixth-plate daguerreotype in leather case.This photograph is stored separately in the MHS Daguerreotype Collection (Photo. Coll. 1).To request this item, follow this link to the MHS catalog and click on the red "Place Request" button.
B. Paper-based photographsDigital Content
Grapes or berries on white background, ca. 1860-1872.
Taken by J. E. Tilton and Co. (Boston, Mass.).Flowers, ca. 1860-1872.
Taken by J. E. Tilton and Co. (Boston, Mass.).Flowers, ca. 1860-1872.
Taken by J. E. Tilton and Co. (Boston, Mass.).Cartes de visite of Eastern Europeans, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Cartes de visite of Eastern Europeans, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Cartes de visite of Eastern Europeans, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Cartes de visite of Eastern Europeans, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Cartes de visite of Eastern Europeans, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Cartes de visite of Eastern Europeans, n.d.
Photographer unknown."A. Alfaro, Washington, DC, June 28th, 1911," 1911.
Photographer unknown (Washington, D.C.).Photo-postcard.Dall, Caroline Wells Healey, n.d.
Photograph taken by F. Gutekunst (Philadelphia, Penn.); drawing by Alvan Clarke.Carte de visite.Inscription: "My own picture drawn by Alvan Clarke at the time of my marriage--very good. / Caroline Healey Dall."
Dall, Caroline Wells Healey, n.d.
Photograph possibly taken by F. Gutekunst (Philadelphia, Penn.); drawing by Alvan Clarke.Carte de visite.Dall, Caroline Wells Healey, n.d.
Taken by F. Gutekunst (Philadelphia, Penn.).Dall, Charles Henry Appleton, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Symonds, [Col.], n.d.
Photographer unknown.Photo of portrait painting.On verso: "Col. Symonds of Bennington / Geo Washington's chief reliance in Berkshire Co."
Austin, Henrietta, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Photo of portrait painting.On verso: "Henrietta Austin, wife of James Dall of Baltimore."
Two unidentified women, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Tintype.Three unidentified women, n.d.
Photographer unknown.Tintype.Preferred Citation
Dall-Healey family photographs, Photo. Coll. 69, Massachusetts Historical Society Photo Archives.
Access Terms
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