Photographs, 1850-1979 and undated

This series visually depicts the family for more than one hundred years. The majority of the photographs here are portraits, though snapshots are present as well. Photographic processes and formats are widely representative of the period covered, including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, stereographs, glass plate negatives, gelatin silver prints, and more. Very few color prints exist. The series is divided into eight subseries, with one for Delph Carpenter, four for families and other people, one for subjects, and two for formats. Women are listed under their maiden and married names as appropriate, so may be found in different subseries. Oversized, framed, and cased photos as well as those in decorative folders are housed separately, but copy photographs or photocopies stand in so researchers can view all the images in one place.