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titleSaltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family photographs, ca. 1840-1946
repositoryMassachusetts Historical Society
descriptionPortraits, travel photographs, and family snapshots belonging to the Saltonstall, Brooks, and Lewis families, taken between ca. 1840 and 1946.

Seven boxes mostly contain loose formal portrait photographs and informal snapshots of various members of the Saltonstall, Brooks, Lawrence, and Lewis families. These loose photographs also include views of Lawrence and Brooks family homes in Massachusetts, views of Boston, and photos of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, among other subjects.

Thirty-six volumes of photographs mostly contain portraits of Saltonstall, Brooks, Lawrence, and Lewis family members and friends. There are also a number of volumes containing photographs taken by Sarah Lawrence Brooks of views of the Brooks family and their homes; Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall’s photos of her service with the Red Cross in France in World War I; the family life and travels of the Richard Middlecott Saltonstall family; photos of Lawrence Brooks’s travels abroad and in the Western U.S. (including photographs taken by novelist Owen Wister); and photographs of Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall’s gardens in Chestnut Hill, Mass., among many other subjects.


Family members represented in this photograph collection include Peter Chardon Brooks (1831-1920), Sarah Lawrence Brooks, Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall, Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall, Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979), Muriel Gurdon Saltonstall Lewis, and Richard Middelcott Saltonstall, among many others.

Photographers include James Wallace Black, Augustus Marshall, James Notman, John Adams Whipple, and Allen & Rowell, all of Boston, Mass.; the Keystone View Company; Sarah Lawrence Brooks; and Owen Wister, among many others. Includes lantern slides, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, tintypes, stereographs, and other paper-based photographs.

Notes:
In the Massachusetts Historical Society Photo Archives.
Local notes: See separate descriptions of daguerreotypes (Photos. 1.369, 1.387-391, 1.393-395, and 1.461-463), ambrotypes (Photos. 2.28 and 2.55), and opalotypes (Photos. 5.2-6), which are stored apart from the collection by format.

Lantern slides in this collection are stored apart from the collection by format (Photo. Coll. 6.8.1).

Call number(s): Photo. Coll. 33

Library Location: manuscript


extent3593 photographs in 5 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and 36 volumes; 7 lantern slides in 1 box.
formatsPhotographs
accessLantern slides: CLOSED TO RESEARCHERS DUE TO THEIR FRAGILE CONDITION.
record linkhttp://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap019
record sourcehttp://www.masshist.org/findingaids/
finding aidhttp://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap019
acquisition informationThe Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family photographs were removed from the Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family papers (Ms. N-368). The collection was deposited at the Massachusetts Historical Society by Eleanor Campbell in Feb. 1993 and given as a gift by her to the Society in Sept. 2000.
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titleSaltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family papers, 1863-1982
repositoryMassachusetts Historical Society
descriptionPersonal and family papers of Muriel Gurdon (Saltonstall) Lewis, including correspondence, travel notes, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, scrapbooks, diaries, and other records.

There are some scattered items of family members Peter C. and Sarah L. Brooks, George Lewis, Eleanor (Brooks) Saltonstall, and Leverett Saltonstall. The collection include diaries (1913, 1915, 1922, 1924, 1943-45), address books, scrapbooks, Christmas lists, and wedding lists of Muriel G. S. Lewis; 1925 travel diary of Eleanor B. Saltonstall; some early writings of Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall; passport and genealogy of Peter C. Brooks; school notes of Richard Saltonstall; and an essay by George Lewis III.

Three oversize scrapbooks (1934-39) contain clippings regarding the political career of Leverett Saltonstall. Also includes ephemera related to Eleanor (Lewis) and Levin H. Campbell.

Local notes:
Photographs removed to the Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family photographs (Photo. Coll. 33).

Postcards removed to MHS photo archives.

See separate descriptions of diaries.

See separate descriptions of daguerreotypes (Photos. 1.369, 1.387-391, 1.393-395, and 1.461-463), ambrotypes (Photos. 2.28 and 2.55), and opalotypes (Photos. 5.2-6), which are stored in the MHS Photo Archives by format.

Call number(s): Ms. N-368

Library Location: manuscript
extent5 document boxes, 1 oversize box, and 3 volumes
formatsPersonal Papers Clippings Ephemera Scrapbooks Diaries
accessContact repository for restrictions and policies.
record linkhttp://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0049
record sourcehttp://www.masshist.org/findingaids/
finding aidhttp://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0049
acquisition informationDeposited by Eleanor Campbell in Feb. 1993; gift of Eleanor Campbell in Sept. 2000.
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titleBrooks family papers, 1793-1924.
repositoryMassachusetts Historical Society
descriptionItems of Peter Chardon Brooks (1767-1849), including two letters from Brooks to Nathaniel Cutting (1793) and an 1803 insurance policy, letters from Brooks to his son Sidney (1845-48), and papers pertaining to his estate.

Also, materials illustrating Brooks family transactions with the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal and the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission (Massachusetts); items concerning the Mystic Valley Parkway, the Brooks properties in Medford and Winchester, and Grace Church in Medford (including a letter of Bishop Lawrence and a contract with John La Farge for a window); and Brooks utility bills.

Family members represented include P.C. Brooks II and III and Gorham Brooks.

Call number(s): Ms. N-163

Library Location: manuscript
extent1 box and 1 oversize container.
formatsCorrespondence Estate Papers Financial Records Legal Papers Ephemera
accessContact repository for restrictions and policies.
record sourcehttp://www.masshist.org/findingaids/
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titleMemoir of Peter Chardon Brooks, 1855-1899.
repositoryMassachusetts Historical Society
descriptionA volume containing a genealogy by William G. Brooks and ms. copies of obituaries of Peter Chardon Brooks (1767-1849), together with a copy of the printed "Memoir of Peter Chardon Brooks" from the NEHGS Register for Oct. 1854.

Also, a letter from Edward Everett to William G. Brooks (1855) and a letter from W.G. Brooks Jr. to P.C. Brooks 3d (1899).

Call number(s): Ms. N-165

Library Location: manuscript
extent1 vol.
formatsMemoirs Printed Materials Correspondence
accessContact repository for restrictions and policies.
record sourcehttp://www.masshist.org/findingaids/
acquisition informationRemoved from Saltonstall Library, Aug. 1989.
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titlePeter Chardon Brooks papers, 1776-1942.
repositoryMassachusetts Historical Society
descriptionPapers of P.C. Brooks 3d of Medford, Mass., contain genealogical materials on the Brooks family; papers concerning Brooks family properties in Medford and Boston, including estate inventories; notes and papers written by Gorham and P.C. Brooks I;

correspondence and receipts pertaining to the purchase of paintings, including a series of letters by J. Foxcroft Cole; and inventories of books, silver, and objets d’art.

Among the correspondents are Shepherd Brooks; Charles F. Adams; Saltonstall family members; artists B.C. Porter, Sarah Whitman, J.S. Sargent, Anders Zorn, W.M. Hunt, and Cyrus Dallin.

Includes a series of papers (1912) concerning Brooks’s purchase of Dallin’s Indian sculpture for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Collection contains exhibition catalogues as well.

Local notes:
Formerly cataloged as "P.C. Brooks 3d."
Collection includes printed material.
Photographs removed to the Peter Chardon Brooks family photographs (Photo. Coll. 32).

Call number(s): Ms. N-1945

Library Location: manuscript
extent3 boxes.
formatsPersonal Papers Financial Records Legal Papers Inventories Correspondence
accessContact repository for restrictions and policies.
record linkhttp://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap019
record sourcehttp://www.masshist.org/findingaids/
finding aidhttp://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap019
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titlePeter Chardon Brooks family photographs, 1866-1913.
repositoryMassachusetts Historical Society
descriptionThirty-six photographs from the collection of Peter Chardon Brooks, 3rd (1831-1920).

Contains formal portraits of Ellen Shepherd Brooks, Peter Chardon Brooks, 3rd, and his wife Sarah Lawrence Brooks (1845-1915).

Also contains photographs of sculpture and paintings of members of the Brooks family, as well as views of Groton and Medford, Mass. and the Shepherd family plot in the cemetery at Shepherdstown, W. Va., among other subjects.

Photographers include James Notman, A.N. Hardy, Horatio G. Smith, Allen & Rowell, and Notman Photograph Company (all of Boston, Mass.). This collection contains cabinet cards, cartes de visite, tin-types, and other paper-based photographs.

Call number(s): Photo Coll. 32

Notes:
In the Massachusetts Historical Society Photo Archives.
extent36 photographs in 1 narrow box.
formatsPhotographs
accessContact repository for restrictions and policies.
record sourcehttp://www.masshist.org/findingaids/
acquisition informationRemoved from the Peter Chardon Brooks papers (P.C. Brooks 3d).
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