[Carte-de-visite album of Samuel Searing, Oakwood Seminary]
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Bound volume
Various makers
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[Carte-de-visite album of Samuel Searing, Oakwood Seminary]
1865
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall: 15.6 x 13.8 x 5.8 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2013
2013.0238.0001-0046
DescriptionSmall album containing 46 cartes de visite, one-per-page in window mounts. The album is identified in gold lettering on the cover as belonging to Samuel Searing, and the album contains several group portraits which include him along with other students at Oakwood Seminary, a co-educational Quaker School (1857-1921) in Union Springs, NY. (in the last image- #46, he is identified among the small group with a directional arrow in ink on the mount). The first image in the album is of a Prof. Pinkham, identified as an instructor at Oakwood Seminary, and there is also a carte-de-visite overview of the campus. Of note is a portrait of the abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison. Nearly all of the portraits are identified with ink inscriptions on the mounts and seem to be a mix of family members and students. The album includes both albumen photographs and card-mounted gem tintypes. There are two notable individual portraits of elderly Quaker women. The album is in very good condition covered in brown leather. Interior page bears fancy ink inscriptions in 2 colors of the names: Joseph D. Haviland and of Samuel Searing.
Inscriptions cover (gilt embossment): Samuel Searing 1865
spine (gilt embossment): ALBUM
front end paper (in red and blue ink): Joseph D. Haviland
/ Samuel Searing
title page (printed in gold and green ink): The American Photograph ALBUM
[some of the photographs are accompanied by handwritten names of the sitters either on the verso (when visible) or on the page]
spine (gilt embossment): ALBUM
front end paper (in red and blue ink): Joseph D. Haviland
/ Samuel Searing
title page (printed in gold and green ink): The American Photograph ALBUM
[some of the photographs are accompanied by handwritten names of the sitters either on the verso (when visible) or on the page]
