INVENTORY All pictures are daguerreotypes unless otherwise noted. Most individuals in group pictures are identified separately with a key or caption that is stored with the daguerreotype. + indicates item has been digitized. Box 1 Group Portraits Class of 1848 [?] Composite of 8 Young Ladies with Mrs. Marianne Dascomb Class of 1853 Composite of 10 Graduates in Ladies Literature Course with Mrs. Marianne Dascomb and President Charles G. Finney (2 copies) Class of 1853 [?], 9 Men including Charles P. Parmelee c. 1853 Composite of 12 Male Faculty (see Fletcher for reproduction, pp 688-89) Class of 1854 [?] 13 Women Class of 1854 Composite of 9 Men, Composite of 8 Men and 1 Woman (2 daguerreotypes in one case) Edgerton, Sarah A. [?] (Mrs. D.N. Bordwell) Fairchild, James H. Finney, President Charles Grandison 15 unidentified men +Class of 1855 14 Ladies with Mrs. Marianne Dascomb Hazle, Ann Maria Wood, Harriet 12 unidentified ladies 4
Box 1 Group Portraits (cont.) Class of 1855 7 Men, 3 Women (3 unique daguerreotypes) Individuals pictured in the three separate Class of 1855, 7 Men, 3 Women daguerreotypes are the same, as follows: Baldwin, Rosanna (Mrs. Avery S. Walker) Booth, Almeda Ann Foote, William Wirt Holbrook, Martin Kellogg McMillan, George Millikan, Silas Franklin Miner, Alcy Eliza (Mrs. Jason Downer) Norton, Smith Spaulding, Oliver Lyman Wright, Johnson Box 2 Group Portraits Class of 1855 15 Ladies with Mrs. Marianne Dascomb (case damaged) Hazle, Ann Maria Wood, Harriet 13 unidentified ladies Class of 1855 15 Ladies with Mrs. Marianne Dascomb and Mrs. Charles G. Finney Hazle, Ann Maria Wood, Harriet 13 unidentified ladies +1856 Samuel Burdett, Gardner Trowbridge, and Henry Payson Kinney, May 7, 1856 (ambrotype) (with text, filed in 45/1 Miscellaneous Manuscripts) [1988/081] Class of 1857 3 Women [Sarah Treat, Jeanie Wells, Amanda Knowlton] (ambrotype, damaged) (2 unique ambrotypes) Knowlton, Amanda E. (Mrs. Xenophon Wheeler) Treat, Sarah Marie (Mrs. Francis Douglas) Wells, Jeannie (Mrs. Henry Willard) 5
Box 2 Group Portraits (cont.) Class of 1857 10 Women, 9 Women (2 ambrotypes in each case) (3 separate cases, 6 unique ambrotypes) Individuals pictured in the three separate Class of 1857, 10 Women, 9 Women ambrotypes are the same, as follows: Andrews, Mary Jane (Mrs. Silas F. Millikan) Condit, Myra Gilman-Ross, Mary Maria (Mrs. Abel Hastings Ross) Ingraham, Sarah C. (Mrs. Thonton B. Penfield) Knowlton, Amanda E. (Mrs. Xenophon Wheeler) Knowlton, Mary Amelia (Mrs. Henry Baker) Pepoon, Julia Charlotte Prunty, Rose Ann (Mrs. John L. Firestone) Rider, Betsey L. (Mrs. Ezra R. Andrews) Secrest, Nancy (Nannie; Mrs. Joseph A Standeford) Treat, Sarah Marie (Mrs. Francis Douglas) Wells, Jeannie (Mrs. Henry Willard) 7 unidentified women Class of 1857 9 Women (ambrotype, no cover) Gilman-Ross, Mary Maria (Mrs. Abel Hastings Ross) Knowlton, Amanda E. (Mrs. Xenophon Wheeler) Knowlton, Mary Amelia (Mrs. Henry Baker) Pepoon, Julia Charlotte Rider, Betsey L. (Mrs. Ezra R. Andrews) Secrest, Nancy (Nannie; Mrs. Joseph A Standeford) 3 unidentified women Class of 1857 [?] 7 Men, 8 Men, (2 ambrotypes in one case, poor condition) Bisbee, Charles G. Cravath, Erastus M. Jones, William Allen 12 unidentified men 1857 3 Faculty [Fairchild, Morgan, Monroe], (ambrotype, poor condition) Fairchild, James H. Morgan, John Monroe, James 6
Box 2 Group Portraits (cont.) c. 1858-60 Oberlin Group, 4 Women (ambrotype, poor condition) Dascomb, Marianne Gilman-Ross, Mary Maria (Mrs. Abel Hastings Ross) Hughes, Anna B. One unidentified woman Box 3 Individual Portraits * Images are undated unless otherwise indicated Anthony, Jacob Merritt, 1853-54 Prep. (copy of daguerreotype) Conant, Mary (Mrs. John Lynch), 1850-51 Lit. (ambrotype, no backing, no case) Cowles, Prof. Henry, (tintype) Finney, Charles G., 1857 (ambrotype) [2001/026] (used by Allen D. Cochran to paint a portrait in 1934) Hawley, Uriah Kendall, Sewell N., AB 1850, Sem. 1853 Kinney, Henry Payson, 1852-55 Prep., AB 1859 (ambrotype) Lynch, John, AB 1851 (ambrotype, no backing, no case) Morgan, Prof. John (ambrotype) Parmelee, Horace Meigs, AB 1839, Sem. 1842 Porter, Zeruiah (Mrs. Edward Weed), Lit. 1838 Porter, Zeruiah and husband Edward Weed Smith, Jailer and Mrs., (in charge of Oberlin-Wellington rescuers) Smith, Lucretia (Mrs. Lewis E. Sikes), AB 1846, and Rev. Sikes Box 4 Individual Portraits and Unidentified Tefft, James Cutler, AB 1847, Sem. 1850 Thissel, Horatio N., 1841-42 Prep., 1842-43 College (daguerreotype July 1, 1850) Treat, Sarah Marie (Mrs. Francis Douglas), 1857 Lit., (2 ambrotypes) Unidentified Woman, 1853 Lit. Unidentified Woman, 1853 Lit. (damaged) Unidentified Woman, 1853 Lit. Unidentified Woman, 1853 Lit. Unidentified Black Woman, (tintype owned by Emma A. Bridgman (Mrs. Roselle T. Cross, 1863-66 Lit, 1869-70 Cons.) Unidentified daguerreotypes (9) 7
Box 5 Individual Portraits, Unidentified Unidentified daguerreotypes (24) Box 6 Group Portraits Seminary Class of 1855 (framed) Box 6A Group Portraits Seminary Class of 1853 with + John Mercer Langston (framed) Box 7 (Group Portraits) Eight unidentified men (framed) Nine unidentified men (framed) Twenty photographs of women, 19 individuals, 1 composite photo of 1848 (framed) See below for alphabetical listing of individuals 8
Alphabetical Listing of Persons in Group and Individual Portraits Andrews, Mary Jane (Mrs. Silas F. Millikan), 1857 Lit., in "Class of 1857" Anthony, Jacob Merritt, 1853-54 Prep., Individual Baldwin, Rosanna (Mrs. Avery S. Walker), AB 1855, in "Class of 1855" Booth, Almeda Ann, AB 1855, in "Class of 1855" Bennett, Ethan Osborne, 1853 Sem., in framed "Seminary Class of 1853" (Box 3) Bisbee, Charles G. [?], in "Class of 1857 [?] Men" Burdette, Samuel Swinfin, 1855-56 Prep., 1856-57 College, in "1856" Group with Kinney and Trowbridge Cleveland, Giles Butler, 1853 Sem., in framed "Seminary Class of 1853" (Box 3) Conant, Mary (Mrs. John Lynch), 1850-51 Lit. Individual Condit, Myra (not listed as an OC Student). In "Class of 1857" Conkling, Charles, AB 1850, 1853 Sem., in framed "Seminary Class of 1853" (Box 3) Cowles, Professor Henry, Individual Cravath, Erastus M., In "Class of 1857 [?] Men" Dascomb, Marianne, In "Class of 1848, 1853, 1855" Edgerton, Sarah. A. [?] (Mrs. D.N. Bordwell), AB 1854, in "Class of 1854" Fairchild, James H., in "Class of 1854" Finney, President Charles Grandison, In "Class of 1853, 1854,1855" Finney, Charles G., 1857 (ambrotype) [2001/026] (Box 3) Finney, Mrs. Charles G., in "Class of 1855" Foote, William Wirt, AB 1855, in "Class of 1855" Gilman-Ross, Mary Maria (Mrs. Abel Hastings Ross), 1857 Lit., in "Class of 1857" and Oberlin Group, 4 Women Harper, Almer, AB 1850, 1853 Sem., in framed "Seminary Class of 1853" (Box 3) Hawley, Uriah, Individual Hazle, Ann Maria [?], in "Class of 1855" Hughes, Anna B. AB 1858, in Oberlin Group, 4 Women Holbrook, Martin Kellogg, AB 1855, in "Class of 1855" Ingraham, Sarah C. (Mrs. Thonton B. Penfield), 1857 Lit., in "Class of 1857" Jones, William Allen, in "Class of 1857 [?] Men" Judd, Henderson, AB 1852, 1855 Sem., #40 framed (Box 3) Kendall, Sewell Norton, AB 1850, Sem. 1853, in 32/3 Paige Box, see also framed "Seminary Class of 1853" (Box 3) Kinney, Henry Payson, 1852-55 Prep., AB 1859, see "Burdett" Knowlton, Amanda E. (Mrs. Xenophon Wheeler), 1857 Lit., in "Class of 1857" and "3 Women of 1857" Knowlton, Mary Amelia (Mrs. Henry Baker), 1857 Lit., in "Class of 1857" Langston, John Mercer, AB 1849, AM 1852, 1853 Sem., in framed "Seminary Class of 1853" (Box 3) Lynch, John, AB 1851, Individual 9
Alphabetical Listing of Persons in Group and Individual Portraits (cont.) McMillan, George, AB 1855, in "Class of 1855" Millikan, Silas Franklin, AB 1855, in "Class of 1855" Miner, Alcy Eliza (Mrs. Jason Downer), AB 1855, in "Class of 1855" Morgan, Professor John, n.d., individual Norton, Smith, AB 1855, in "Class of 1855" Parmelee, Charles P. AB 1853, in Class of 1853 [probably], 9 Men Parmelee, Horace Meigs, AB 1839, 1842 Sem., Individual Pepoon, Julia Charlotte, 1857 Lit., in "Class of 1857" Porter, Zeruiah (Mrs. Edward Weed), 1838 Lit., 2 individual (one with husband) Prunty, Rose Ann (Mrs. John L. Firestone), 1857 Lit., in "Class of 1857" Rider, Betsey L. (Mrs. Ezra R. Andrews), 1857 Lit., in "Class of 1857" Rogers, John Almanza Rowley, AB 1851, 1853 Sem., #42 Framed (Box 3) Secrest, Nancy (Nannie; Mrs. Joseph A Standeford), Lit. 1857, "Class of 1857" Sikes, Rev. Lewis E., individual (with wife) Smith, Jailer, n.d., individual (with wife) Smith, Lucretia (Mrs. Lewis E. Sikes), AB 1846, individual (with husband) Smith, Moses Henry, AB 1850, 1853 Sem., in framed "Seminary Class of 1853" (Box 3) Spaulding, Oliver Lyman, AB 1855, in "Class of 1855" Tefft, James Cutler, AB 1847, 1850 Sem., individual Thissell, Horatio, 1841-42 Prep., 1842-43 College, individual Treat, Sarah Marie (Mrs. Francis Douglas), 1857 Lit., in "Class of 1857", "3 Women of 1857" and 2 individual Trowbridge, Gardner Clark, see "Burdett" Wadsworth, Thomas Arthur, AB 1847, AM 1851, 1853 Sem., in framed "Seminary Class of 1853" (Box 3) Weed, Reverend, see "Porter, Zeruiah" Wells, Jeannie (Mrs. Henry Willard), 1857 Lit., in "Class of 1857" and "3 Women of 1857" Williams, Wolcott Bigelow, AB 1850, 1853 Sem., in framed "Seminary Class of 1853" (Box 3) Wood, Harriet A. AB 1855, in Class of 1855 Wright, Johnson, AB 1855, in "Class of 1855" 10