Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection

The Trumans and Underhills were prominent Philadelphia-area Quaker families with close ties to Swarthmore College and active in social concerns. The collection includes six albums and other miscellaneous photographs and silhouettes.

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Title:
Scenery
Description:
Outdoors snapshot
Date:
(approximate) 1905
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Title:
Boardwalk in distance
Description:
Outdoors snapshot
Date:
(approximate) 1905
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Title:
Pier
Description:
Outdoors snapshot
Date:
(approximate) 1905
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Title:
Sailboat
Description:
Outdoors snapshot
Date:
(approximate) 1905
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Title:
The Haunted Castle'
Description:
Eagle Rock house exterior
Date:
(approximate) 1905
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Title:
George Truman Underhill, and two men
Description:
Indoors portrait of four men; George Truman Underhill and Benjamin Mott Underhill in middle row
Date:
(approximate) 1905
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Title:
Old Friends: Geo. & Tom Byrne, Oct. ‘03'
Description:
Four men on city street; George Truman Underhill on right
Date:
1903-10
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Title:
House exterior
Description:
Outdoors snapshot
Date:
(approximate) 1905
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Title:
The Haunted Castle'
Description:
Eagle Rock house exterior
Date:
(approximate) 1905
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Title:
Unpaved road
Description:
Outdoors snapshot
Date:
(approximate) 1905
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Title:
George Truman Underhill
Description:
Outdoors snapshot
Date:
(approximate) 1905
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Title:
Lillian Underhill and Benjamin Mott Underhill
Description:
Outdoors; George Truman Underhill in background (?)
Date:
(approximate) 1905
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Album 1, circa 1905
Title:
Album 1, circa 1905
Description:
Photograph album belonging to Benjamin Mott Underhill, who took most of the pictures. Snapshots of Benjamin Mott Underhill (1863-1930), George Truman Underhill (b. 1859) and other members of the Underhill family in the Philadelphia area and Southern New Jersey. Of special interest: an early parade; the Atlantic City boardwalk and attractions; San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake; boats, steamships, submarines.
Date:
(approximate) 1905
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Album 2, circa 1875
Title:
Album 2, circa 1875
Description:
Portrait album. Of special interest: portraits of James and Lucretia Mott, Gulielma and William Penn, Benjamin West, Joseph John Gurney and Elizabeth Gurney Fry.
Date:
(approximate) 1875
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Album 3, circa 1875
Title:
Album 3, circa 1875
Description:
Portrait photographs of the Underhill family.
Date:
(approximate) 1875
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Album 4, circa 1875
Title:
Album 4, circa 1875
Description:
Portrait album. Of special interest: photograph of several paintings, including “Washington and Lincoln. (Apotheosis.)” by J. A. Arthur (1865); portrait of soldier with both arms amputated; portrait of Alexei Alexandrovich, Grand Duke of Russia, 1850-1908.
Date:
(approximate) 1875
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Album 5, circa 1875
Title:
Album 5, circa 1875
Description:
Portrait album. Of special interest: portraits of Jane C. Hunt, James and Lucretia Mott, Isaac T. Hopper, Benjamin West, Franklin B. Gowan, David Sands, Elizabeth and Elias Hicks, George Fox White; drawing of Swarthmoor Hall in Ulverston England.
Date:
(approximate) 1875
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Album 6, circa 1870
Title:
Album 6, circa 1870
Description:
Portrait album belonging to George Truman (1798-1877). Probably assembled by photographer Fredrick Gutekunst, in Philadelphia, from copies and negatives of photographs taken in other places at other times. Of special interest: portrait of Fredrick Gutekunst with camera; Richard P. and Jane C. Hunt; portrait of young man in traditional Japanese garb.
Date:
(approximate) 1870
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Dr. W(?) Shoemaker
Title:
Dr. W(?) Shoemaker
Description:
Portrait
Date:
(approximate) 1875
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection
Aaron C. Macy, Jr.
Title:
Aaron C. Macy, Jr.
Description:
Portrait
Date:
(approximate) 1875
Collection:
Truman-Underhill Photograph Collection

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