Cartland family collection of photographs and ephemera of John Greenleaf Whittier
Overview
Ephemera and photographs concerning the American poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, collected by his cousins, the Cartland family.
Dates
- Creation: 1834-1930
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
This collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
Extent
.5 linear feet (1 box)Includes pamphlets, calendars, cabinet photographs, genealogies, cartes-de-visite photographs, clippings, and other material. Also includes a Whittier 1834 autograph fragment of a poem.
Biographical / Historical
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American poet and abolitionist. He was born into a Quaker family in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
The Cartlands of Lee, N.H., were also Quakers, and were cousins of the poet Whittier. Moses Austin Cartland (1805-1863) was a schoolmaster and journalist. His wife was Mary Page Gove and son was Charles Sumner Cartland. Moses' brother Joseph Cartland (1810-1898) was also an educator. With his wife Gertrude Whittier Cartland (1822-1911), Joseph was principal of Moses Brown School in Providence, R.I. (1855-1860). Based on the numerous annotations on the versos of these items, this material at one time belonged to the Cartland family.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series:
- I. Photographs
- II. Whittier miscellany
- III. Materials concerning the death of John Greenleef Whittier
- IV. Printed materials on Whittier
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Immediate Source of Acquisition
46M-358 Gift of Amasa C. Gould, 248 Newbury St., Boston, Mass.; received: 1946 November 1.
Processing Information
Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt
- Title
- Cartland family, collector. Cartland family collection of photographs and ephemera of John Greenleaf Whittier, 1834-1930: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou01751
Repository Details
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