31 carte de visite portraits of members of the Wigglesworth family, mostly the immediate and extended family of Henrietta May Goddard and Edward Wigglesworth (1804-1835). Individuals represented include Henrietta May Goddard Wigglesworth; Thomas Wigglesworth (1814-1907); Lucretia Dana Goddard Gould; Jane Norton Wigglesworth Grew; Edward Wigglesworth (1840-1896); Henrietta Goddard Wigglesworth Holmes Fitz; and George Wigglesworth, among others. Photographers include James Wallace Black, John Adams Whipple, and Black & Batchelder, all of Boston, Mass., among others.

22 carte de visite and tintype portraits of members of the Wigglesworth family, mostly the immediate and extended family of Henrietta May Goddard and Edward Wigglesworth (1804-1835). Individuals represented include Henrietta May Goddard Wigglesworth; Lucretia Dana Goddard; Thomas Wigglesworth (1814-1907); and Edward Wigglesworth (1840-1896), among others. Photographers include George Kendall Warren (Cambridge, Mass.) and James Wallace Black and John Adams Whipple (both of Boston, Mass.), among others.

85 carte de visite and cabinet card portraits of members of the George Wigglesworth family. Individuals represented include George Wigglesworth, his wife Mary Catherine Dixwell Wigglesworth, and some of their children: Anna Cornelia Wigglesworth Chase; Norton Wigglesworth; Marian Epes Wigglesworth Brown; and Ruth Wigglesworth Whitney, among others. There are also photographs of members of the Grew and Dixwell families. Photographers include Allen & Rowell, the Notman Photographic Co., James Notman, and A. N. Hardy, all of Boston, Mass., among others.

Two albums of commercial photographs collected by Epes Sargent Dixwell and Mary Ingersoll Bowditch Dixwell when they traveled to Europe during 1872 and 1873 with their daughters Aria Sargent Dixwell and Mary Catherine Dixwell (later Wigglesworth). The photographs are captioned in an unknown hand and record the dates and places to which the family traveled. Both albums are inscribed in an unknown hand: "Given to M. C. D. Wigglesworth, 1899." None of the photographers are identified.

28 cyanotype photographs taken by Epes Sargent Dixwell, ca. 1880-1890. The photographs depict embroideries hanging in the Dixwell family home, flowers, various family members, homes and buildings in Cambridge and Belmont, Mass., and landscapes of Manchester and Rockport, Mass. The photographs are all undated and identified in Dixwell's hand.

118 carte de visite, cabinet card, tintype, daguerreotype, and ambrotype photographs of members of the Wigglesworth family. Most of the portraits are of the children of Henrietta May Goddard Wigglesworth and Edward Wigglesworth (1804-1876) and the family of their son George Wigglesworth and his wife Mary Catherine Dixwell Wigglesworth. Individuals represented include Henrietta May Goddard Wigglesworth, Epes Sargent Dixwell, George Wigglesworth, and Norton Wigglesworth, among many others. Photographers include Ruth Wigglesworth Whitney, as well as Allen & Rowell, Antoine Sonrel, Augustus Marshall, John Adams Whipple, and James Wallace Black, all of Boston, Mass., among many others. Many of the images have duplicate copies. Most of these photographs belonged to Mary Catherine Dixwell Wigglesworth and have her comments and recollections about them inscribed on the verso of the images. They were turned over to Ruth Wigglesworth Whitney in Sep. 1966.

81 photographs of views of various places, mostly in Massachusetts. Subjects include various Wigglesworth, Bowditch, and Dixwell family homes in Cambridge, Jamaica Plain, and Salem, Mass., as well as images of the 1872 Boston Fire, among other subjects. There are also a number of images of the 1895 200th anniversary celebration and 1909 Fourth of July procession in Manchester, Mass. Includes photo-postcards. Most of the photographers are unidentified.

25 photographs of buildings at the Chicago World's fair in 1893. These photographs were sent by Olivia Bowditch to her uncle Epes Sargent Dixwell in December of 1893. They were taken by Olivia's friend Alice Curtis. All of the photographs are identified. They are accompanied by a list of the photographs written by Alice Curtis; a letter from Olivia Bowditch to Epes Sargent Dixwell, dated 25 Dec. 1893, regarding the photographs; and a note about the provenance of the images, possibly written by Philip Putnam Chase.

12 photographs of manuscripts, artifacts, and artwork relating to the Wigglesworth family. Included are photo-reproductions of letters from Rev. Michael Wigglesworth to his third wife, Sibyl Avery, as well as a letter from John Dixwell and a letter from George Washington to General Lincoln, half-brother of Samuel Norton, among other items. Also includes film photonegatives, one of which depicts the Wigglesworth family genealogy.

15 oversize photographs of Wigglesworth and Dixwell family members and houses; the Dixwell and Heardson Monument in Folkeston, England; and photo-reproductions of manuscripts, drawings, and paintings. Most of the photographers are unidentified.

5 folders of photomechanical reproductions of photographs that appear to have been included as illustrations in a Wigglesworth or Dixwell family book entitled "Just Glimpses." Many of the original photographs depicted in these images appear elsewhere in this collection. These photomechanicals are unnumbered.