ca. 1850s, Alexander W. Longfellow. Carte de visite

Images circa 1825-1882. Includes photographs, engravings, illustrations from publications, cased images, and cartes de visite, primarily of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, his family, residences, as well as related individuals and subjects. Among the Longfellow family photographs are fourteen cased images (ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, and tintypes), including matching portraits, circa 1860, of Henry Longfellow and his wife Frances Elizabeth Appleton Longfellow, and a fine daguerreotype portrait of Henry Longfellow’s younger brother Samuel as a young man. There are also about fifty cartes de visite of members of Henry Longfellow and his younger brother Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow’s immediate and extended families, including images of five of Henry and Frances’ six children, as well as Alexander and his wife Elizabeth Clapp Porter Longfellow, and their five children. Many of the cartes de visite are compiled in an album that probably belonged to Alexander and Elizabeth Longfellow’s family. There are some non-family images in the collection including twenty-one cartes de visite of Harvard University faculty, most contemporary with Henry Longfellow’s tenure at Harvard.