Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Peto, John Frederick, 1854-1907
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content: John Frederick Peto and Peto family papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 2-7, OV 5; 1.3 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1850-1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.petojohn, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains photographs and glass plate negatives of Peto, his family, his home and studio, and his artwork. Photographs of Peto include several portraits, Peto in his studio at Island Heights, New Jersey, with fellow artist William Harnett, and with family members. Additional photographs are of his wife Christine, his daughter Helen as a baby and young girl, and several other family members of the Peto family in Philadelphia, and of Christine's family, the Smiths, in Lerado, Ohio. Also found are photographs of the interior and exterior of Peto's home and studio in Island Heights, props he used for his paintings, photographs of Abraham Lincoln also used for his artwork, and miscellaneous photographs, some of which may have been taken by Peto. Also contained here are several photographs of Peto's artwork. Of the numerous glass plate negatives in this collection, some are also found among the photographs mentioned above, others have not been printed, but have been digitized and are available online.


Glass plate negatives are housed separately and closed to researchers, though all have been digitized to provide access.