Subseries D, Photograph albums, 1860-1881, undated (#FB.2.1, MB.1.1-MB.1.2), contains three photograph albums. The Bowen, Barney, and Holt family album (#FB.2.1) is comprised of approximately one hundred black and white cabinet size and carte de visite photographs. The album contains photographs of Bowen family members, friends, and celebrities (including military heroes such as U.S. Generals John Charles Fremont, 1813-1890 and Winfield Scott, 1786-1866; and a collage of U.S. Generals: Anderson, Banks, Butler, Dix, Fremont, Lyon, McClellan, Scott, and Wool). Also included are a photograph of Edward Augustus Bowen's (1847-1926) horse, Ruby; Hiram Barney's (dates unknown) house, Cedar Knolls, located at Spuyten Duyvil, New York; and friends of Edward A. Barney (dates unknown) from the Eastman School in Poughkeepsie, New York (including a group playing polo). The Bowen, Barney, and Tappan family album (#MB.1.1) is comprised of approximately thirty-nine black and white carte de visite photographs. The album contains portraits of Bowen family members, Bowen friends, and celebrities. Also included is a photograph of the Bowen family governess, Edna Dean Proctor (1829-1923); a photograph of Grace Aspinwall (Bowen) Hardy (1850-1940) with her doll, Lena Rivers, which is held by Historic New England; carte de visite photographs of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861); a cartoon of a child receiving a haircut; and a carte de visite of "Mother and Child" with the poem "Motherless Child" by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). The Holt family album (#MB.1.2) is comprised of approximately twenty-six black and white carte de visite photographs. The album contains portraits of Holt family members; most are of children. Also included is an 1877 photograph of Grace (Holt) Reed (1874-1937) with several of her dolls taken on February 8.
Series III, Photographic material of the Bowen family of Woodstock, Connecticut, 1860-1965, undated (bulk, 1860-1935) (#8.18-12.14, FB.2.1, MB.1.1-MB.1.2, OB.3.9), contains portraits and group photographs; black and white photographs; color photographs; cabinet photographs; carte de visite; a mounted photograph; a hand-tinted and retouched photograph; a wood cut-out; tintypes; three photograph albums; and related letters. The series is arranged in four subseries.
Subseries B, Photographs: groups, 1866-1965, undated (bulk, 1886-1898) (#10.13-10.31, 11.1-11.14), contains black and white photographs, color photographs, and related letters. The subseries includes group photographs of the Bowen family with such acquaintances as orator Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) (#10.13); author Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) (#10.13); and family nurse, Henrietta (#10.28). Also included in the subseries are photographs of Roseland Park and Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, Connecticut; events at the Bowen family house located at 90 Willow Street in Brooklyn, New York; two undated hunting party photographs taken by Nellie Chandler (dates unknown) at Roseland Park in Woodstock, Connecticut (#11.6); Herbert Wolcott Bowen's (1856-1927) house in Woodstock, Connecticut (#11.14); and the Aspinwall houses in Brookline, Massachusetts (#11.11). Additionally, the subseries contains photographs of several Fourth of July celebrations held at Roseland Cottage, which include group photographs with President Benjamin Harrison (U.S. President, 1889-1893) (#11.1-11.2); President William McKinley (U.S. President, 1897-1901) (#11.3, 11.9); and Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) (#10.31), author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." An 1886 photograph of Clarence Winthrop Bowen (1852-1935) delivering an Independence Day address in Roseland Park (#11.10), and photographs of the U.S. flag flown out front of Roseland Cottage during the Independence Day celebrations (#11.14) are also included in the Fourth of July celebration photographs. The subseries is arranged alphabetically by surname, followed by general Bowen family photographs, and then by other photographs; when applicable, women are identified by married name.
This series includes group portraits of members of the Bowen and Holt families, as well as some unknown or unrelated persons. Most of these photographs are undated.
The majority of this series is comprised of portraits of members of the Bowen, Holt, Richardson, and Tappan families, in addition to a small number of unknown or unrelated persons. Most of these photographs are undated.
Subseries A, Photographs: portraits, 1862-1935, undated (#8.18-10.12, OB.3.9), contains black and white photographs and color photographs of individual members of the Bowen family and friends of the family; a mounted photograph (#8.29) and hand-tinted, retouched photograph (#8.25) of Henry Chandler Bowen (1813-1896); and a wood cut-out (possibly of George Chandler Holt, 1843-1931) (#8.30) of an unidentified Bowen family member. Also included in the subseries is an 1897 photograph of Herbert Wolcott Bowen (1856-1927) after his appointment as U.S. Consulate-General in Barcelona, Spain (#8.27); an undated photograph of Grace Aspinwall (Bowen) Hardy (1850-1940) with her doll, Lena Rivers, which is held by Historic New England (#9.7); an undated photograph of orator Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) (#8.19); a 1935 signed photograph of a Wilfred Grenfell (#9.5); an signed photograph of an Edward Thayer Monroe (#10.3); and an photograph of the Bowen family nurse, Jane S. Stuart (d. 1916) (#10.8). Additionally, the subseries contains a 1949 photograph taken by the U.S. Navy of Hamilton Holt (1872-1951), Governor Fuller Warren (1905-1973), and President Harry S Truman (U.S. President, 1945-1953), while attending an educators meeting in Florida on March 8 and an undated clipping with a photograph of Hamilton Holt (1872-1951), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (U.S. President, 1933-1945), and First Lady (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, (#9.11). The subseries is arranged alphabetically by surname; when applicable, women are identified by married name.
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