Photographs of Family
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942
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content: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers
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content: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers / Series 10: Photographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1862-1931
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whitgert, Subseries 10.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Family photographs are arranged in rough chronological order.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Photographs have been scanned in entirety with the exception of duplicates, photographs with permission restrictions, and blank versos of photographs.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This subseries consists of early photographs of the Vanderbilt and Whitney families, and photographs of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's own family, including her husband, Harry Payne Whitney, her children, Flora, Cornelius, and Barbara, and other family members. Early photographs of the Vanderbilt family include ones of Whitney's grandfather, "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, and her father, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, and one from the Vanderbilt family trip to Florida in 1896. Early photographs of the Whitney family include ones of William C. Whitney and Flora Payne Whitney (Whitney's in-laws), ones of Pauline and Harry Payne Whitney as children, and ones of other family, friends, and business and political associates of William C. Whitney. Photographs of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's own family include ones from her honeymoon, ones of her children and ones of her with her children (including one of Whitney with her mother, daughter, and grandchild, representing four generations of the family), and ones from various family weddings. Also found are photographs of Whitney's childhood friend, Esther Hunt.