Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Page, William, 1811-1885
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content: William Page and Page Family papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 7-9, OV 12, MGP 5-6; 1.4 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1845-1947, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pagewill, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Glass plate negatives have been scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series includes photographic portraits, snapshots, photographs of homes and other buildings, travel photographs, and photographs of works of art. Most portraits are mounted cabinet photographs or cartes-des-visites, but a small number of tintypes, daguerreotypes, and unmounted prints are also found. Portraits depict William Page, his family, descendants, and friends, as well as sitters for his painted portraits. Photographs after 1900 depict primarily the family of George S. Page, William Page's son, his wife and children, and their families.

Several of the portraits from the 19th century were taken in the Brady studios of Matthew Brady, and a few from the Sarony studio in New York are also found. There is a large portrait of Page taken by Charles H. Williamson. Pencil tracings on several enlarged photographs, grid marks on cabinet photographs and tintypes, and color notes handwritten on photographs seem to indicate that some of these photographs were used as studies for paintings. Drawings of some of the photographic subjects are also found in the Artwork series. 

Most of the portraits and snapshots in this series are unidentified. Where subjects have been identified, their names appear in the folder list. 

Many of the photographs of works of art relate to Page's study of Shakespeare, including a collection of Shakespeare portraits and photographs of the supposed death mask of Shakespeare then in Darmstadt, Germany. Other photographs of works of art include a series of heliotypes of classical busts in the Gray Collection of Harvard College.

Glass plate negatives are housed separately and closed to researchers.