Pencil and watercolor caricature of S.H. Kauffmann at easel, ca. late 1880s
Scope and Contents
Approximately 80 photographs of the Kauffmann family including: Samuel Hay Kauffmann, Louise Kauffmann Simpson, Victor Kauffmann, Jessie Christopher Kauffmann, Philip Christopher Kauffmann, and Samuel Hay Kauffmann II. Collection is mostly portrait photographs, including a daguerreotype, tintypes, albumen cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards, gelatin silver developing out paper, and platinum prints. Of note: a tintype Union Case, a Mathew Brady carte-de-visite, Japanese albumen photographic prints with hand coloring, and a hand-written will by S.H. Kauffmann to his wife, Sarah F. Kauffmann dated 1878.
Dates
- Creation: ca. late 1880s
Creator
- From the Collection: Kauffmann, Samuel Hay (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Extent
From the Collection: 0.5 Linear feet
From the Collection: 1 Boxes
Repository Details
Part of the The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library Repository