This carte de visite album was likely owned by James Murray Forbes. Included are photographs of family members, friends, and Harvard classmates, including actors in costume for Hasty Pudding theatricals.

This album was owned by James Murray Forbes. MACT number JMF1.

Vol. 3 contains mostly unidentified photographs. The identified persons include James Murray and Alice Bowditch Forbes, Henry Sturgis Russell, Robert Bennet Forbes, and H. G. Curtis. MACT number JMF2.

This album contains cartes de visite and has "J.M.F. 1863" printed in gold on the front cover. Included are photographs taken in Shanghai, San Francisco, and Hong Kong, as well as Boston and Cambridge, Mass. MACT number JMF3.

This album contains cartes de visite, chiefly unidentified. Identified subjects include W. P. Fay, Richard Fay, Jr., Wilder Dwight, L. D. Murray, T. Burkhardt, and Frederic d'Hauteville. MACT number JMF4.

This photograph album belonged to Rose Forbes, James Murray Forbes's mother. It has a leather binding with the gilt monograph RGF on the cover. Included is an inscription inside the front cover that reads "Mrs. Forbes. With love of J & S. S. W. Christmas, 1868." The album contains many photographs of paintings, landscapes, and genre scenes, likely collected during her trip abroad in 1867. MACT number JMF5.

This partially-filled album contains cabinet cards; images are largely unidentified, although there are several photographs of James Murray Forbes. MACT number JMF6.

Volume 8 contains snapshots, clippings, postcards, and commercial photographs. Subjects include "The Birches," horses, boats, bullfighting, and Forbes family trips to California, Mexico, the Grand Canyon, and Islesboro, Maine. MACT number JMF7.

Volume 9 contains photographs of Colombia compiled by the Cartagena-Magdalena Railway Co. of which J. M. Forbes was a director. Photographs include street scenes, landscapes, railroad infrastructure and workers, and plantations. There is a list of photographs at the end of the volume. MACT number JMF8.

This album contains cartes de visite kept by Alice Bowditch Forbes. Most images are identified in pencil. MACT number CT1.

This album contains cartes de visite and cabinet photographs. In addition to Forbes family members, it includes photographs of Civil War naval and military figures. Most images are identified in ink. MACT number CT2.

Vol. 12 consists of mostly unidentified portraits. MACT number CT4.

Vol. 13 consists mostly of unidentified portraits. Identified people include members of the Bowditch, Mason, Fay, and Forbes families, and two portraits of Wilder Dwight. MACT number CT5.

This album contains cartes de visite and cabinet photographs. Identified people include members of the Bowditch, Fay, and Forbes families. The also album includes several photographs of heifers owned by Ebenezer F. Bowditch. MACT number CT6.

This album contains unidentified cartes de visite and cabinet photographs. Most photographs are recognizable as Forbes and Bowditch family members. This album also includes 4 tintypes of an unidentified group. MACT number CT12.

Volume 16 comprises unidentified black-and-white snapshots and cyanotypes of the family of James Murray Forbes bicycling, playing polo, riding horses, and playing with pets. MACT number A1965.1.5.

Vol. 17 is a mauchline ware photograph album from wood "Grown on the lands of Abbotsford" with illustrations of Abbotsford, Kelso Abbey, Melrose Abbey, Sir Walter Scott's tomb, and Edinburgh Castle. The album includes cartes de visite of sites in Scotland, England, Germany, and France. MACT number EU1.

This album contains commercially produced black-and-white photographs of tourist sites in England and Scotland. MACT number EU2.

This album contains commercially produced black-and-white photographs of tourist sites in England, France, Switzerland, and Italy. MACT number EU3.

This album contains snapshots taken during a Forbes family trip to Pau for hunting. The album also includes photographs taken at a bullfight. MACT number EU6.