Title: Kimball Photograph Portfolio, approximately 1865-1929
Creator: Kimball, Howard A., 1845-1929
Accession / Call Number: S 1992.68.2
Object ID: S 1992.68.2
Date: approximately 1865-1929
Physical Description: 1 oversize box ; 1.63 linear feet
Scope and Content: Photographer Howard A. Kimball's note: "In making this series of pictures it was first planned to make some of the governors and noted New Hampshire people of historical interest, but it has later developed into a complete set of all the Governors since the State became independent, as well as some of the provincial executives, and it is the only complete set in existence aside from the oil portraits in the State House, and in to the portraits have been added photos of many buildings of historical interest which adds greatly to the value of the collection which is without doubt the most interesting and valuable the "Kimball Studio" have ever issued.: As Kimball says, there are formal photos of New Hampshire governors, ending with Huntly Spaulding in 1929. An assortment of nineteenth-century political figures is also represented, along with some colonial officials. Some representations of people are photographs of statues or oil portraits. Kimball also documented buildings: there are images of New Hampshire Capitol buildings as well as of the New Hampshire Historical Society. In addition to official buildings, Kimball photographed a few houses he felt were important because they were built in the eighteenth century or were associated with famous people. Most of these are in Portsmouth, NH, but also among them is Daniel Webster's birthplace in Franklin, NH, taken in 1877 before it was restored (page 3) and again later, and General John Sullivan's house and the slave quarters behind it in Dover, NH (page 9). Although Kimball dated the terms of the governors and the construction of the buildings he documented, the photographs themselves are almost never dated.
Subjects:
Architecture, Domestic,
Dwellings,
Governors,
Legislators,
New Hampshire--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775,
Nurses,
Politicians,
Politics and government,
Portrait photography,
Slavery,
Slaves--Dwellings,
Statues,
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865,
United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763,
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783,
Winter storms
Locations: Concord, NH
Dover, NH
Franklin, NH
Mount Washington, NH
Portsmouth, NH
People:
Bachelder, Nahum Josiah, 1854-1934,
Badger, William, 1779-1852,
Baker, Nathaniel B., 1818-1876,
Bartlett, John H., 1869-1952,
Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795,
Bass, Robert P., 1873-1960,
Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757,
Bell, Charles Henry, 1823-1893,
Bell, John, 1765-1836,
Bell, Samuel, 1770-1850,
Berry, Nathaniel Springer, 1796-1894,
Boscawen, Edward, 1787-1841,
Bradstreet, Simon, 1603-1697,
Brown, Albert O., 1853-1937,
Brown, Fred H., 1879-1955,
Burnet, William, 1687/88-1729,
Busiel, Charles A., 1842-1901,
Chandler, William E., 1835-1917,
Cheney, Person Colby, 1828-1901,
Cilley, Joseph, 1791-1887,
Colby, Anthony, 1792-1873,
Currier, Moody, 1806-1898,
Dame, Harriet Patience, 1815-1900,
Dearborn, Henry, 1751-1829,
Dinsmoor, Samuel, 1766-1835,
Dinsmoor, Samuel, 1799-1869,
Dix, John A., 1798-1879,
Dudley, Joseph, 1647-1720,
Duston, Hannah Emerson, 1657,
Felker, Samuel Demeritt, 1859-1932,
Floyd, Charles M., 1861-1923,
Gallinger, Jacob H., 1837-1918,
Gilman, John Taylor, 1753-1828,
Gilmore, Joseph Albree, 1811-1867,
Goodell, David H., 1834-1915,
Goodwin, Ichabod, 1794-1882,
Haile, William, 1807-1876,
Hale, John Parker, 1806-1873,
Hale, Samuel W., 1823-1891,
Harriman, Walter, 1817-1884,
Harvey, Matthew, 1781-1866,
Hill, Isaac, 1789-1851,
Hubbard, Henry, 1784-1857,
Langdon, John, 1741-1819,
Jordan, Chester B. , 1839-1914,
Keyes, Henry Wilder, 1863-1938,
Kimball, Howard A., 1845-1929,
Langdon, Woodbury, approximately 1739-1805,
Martin, Noah, 1801-1863,
McLane, John, 1852-1911,
Metcalf, Ralph, 1798-1858,
Morril, David L., 1772-1849,
Morris, Robert, 1734-1806,
Morris, Robert, 1734-1806,
Moses, George H., 1869-1944,
Olcott, Simeon, 1735-1815,
Page, John, 1787-1865,
Perkins, George Hamilton, 1835-1899,
Pierce, Benjamin, 1757-1839,
Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869,
Pierce, Jane Means Appleton, 1806-1863,
Plumer, William, 1759-1850,
Prescott, Benjamin F., 1833-1895,
Quinby, Henry Brewer, 1846-1924,
Ramsdell, George A., 1834-1900,
Reed, James, 1722/23-1807,
Rollins, Edward H., 1824-1889,
Rollins, Frank W., 1860-1915,
Thompson, Benjamin, 1753-1814,
Rumford, Sarah Thompson, 1774-1852,
Sawyer, Charles H., 1840-1908,
Smith, Jeremiah, 1759-1842,
Smith, John Butler, 1838-1914,
Smyth, Frederick, 1819-1899,
Spaulding, Huntley N., 1869-1955,
Spaulding, Rolland, 1873-1942,
Stark, John, 1728-1822,
Stearns, Onslow, 1810-1878,
Steele, John Hardy, 1789-1865,
Straw, Ezekiel Albert, 1819-1882,
Sullivan, John, 1740-1795,
Sulloway, Cyrus A., 1839-1917,
Thornton, Matthew, 1714?-1803,
Tuck, Edward, 1842-1938,
Tuttle, Hiram A., 1837-1911,
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852,
Weston, James A., 1827-1895,
Wentworth, Benning, 1696-1770,
Wentworth, John, 1671-1730,
Whipple, William, 1730-1785,
Williams, Jared Warner, 1796-1864,
Winant, John G., 1889-1947,
Woodbury, Levi, 1789-1851
Organizations:
Kimball Studio (Concord, N.H.),
New Hampshire Historical Society,
New Hampshire State House,
United States. Congress. Senate
Credit Line: New Hampshire Historical Society purchase.
Restrictions: Available for research.
Level Description: Collection
Finding Aid Link: RS56846_Kimball_Photograph_Portfolio_S1992.68.2.pdf