Photographs, 1860s-1980s

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This group of late 18th and early 20th century photographs includes 60 photographs of the Abbot family and their house, Bellevue, most of which are identified; one photocopy of a large group portrait of Abbots on the porch at Bellevue, circa 1900, with names and dates labeled on reverse; 24 photographs of the Minor family; one photograph album containing mostly pictures of students at a turn-of-the-century women's college, including pictures of Lucy and Virginia Henderson; and 15 unidentified portraits of children, and young men and women. Also included are some snapshots of African American family servants.

Series includes cyanotypes (two are in the album), many cartes-de-visite, and a few tintypes, taken mostly at photographers' studios in Charlottesville and Lynchburg, Virginia. There are also photographic reproductions of paintings or early photographic portraits and engravings. Modern photographs are of the cemetery where family members are buried, and their tombstones.

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