Photograph album owned by Emily Howland
date: label: Date
content: 1864
name: label: Manufactured by
content: James B. Smith & Co., American
label: Signed by
content: Caroline N. Lacy, American, 1838 - 1898
label: Received by
content: Emily Howland, American, 1827 - 1929
label: Subject of
content: Harriet Tubman, American, 1822 - 1913
label: Subject of
content: John Willis Menard, American, 1838 - 1893
label: Subject of
content: Charles Sumner, American, 1811 - 1874
label: Subject of
content: Lydia Maria Child, American, 1802 - 1880
label: Subject of
content: William Henry Channing, American, 1810 - 1884
label: Subject of
content: Wendell Phillips, American, 1811 - 1884
label: Subject of
content: Freedmen's Bureau, American, 1865 - 1872
notes: label: Caption
content: Caroline “Carrie” Nichols (later Carrie N. Lacy; see 2017.30.13) presented this carte-de-visite album to her friend and fellow teacher Emily Howland on January 1, 1864, at Camp Todd, a freedmen’s camp and school located in Arlington, Virginia. Emily Howland was an abolitionist, educator, philanthropist, and suffragist who founded, financially supported, and taught in numerous schools for African Americans for more than 70 years from 1857 until her death in 1929 at the age of 101.
label: Caption
content: Typical of a CDV album during this period, the Howland Album contains photographs of Howland’s family, friends, and colleagues, as well as souvenir images of notable abolitionists and famous figures during the 1860s and 1870s. Based on the photograph dates and later inscriptions, it is clear that Howland added photographs to the album as she collected them throughout the mid- to late 19th century.
label: Description
content: Black leather photograph album owned by Emily Howland containing photographs of friends, family, and celebrities. The album covers and binding are made from embossed black leather with gold gilt decorations on the covers and spine. Both covers are the same, with a scallop-edged diamond outlined in gold at the center and geometric borders surrounding it, ending in a thin gold gilt geometric border around the edges. Gilt text is stamped on the spine reading "PHOTOGRAPHS". The front and back interior covers have decorative paper with small gold repeating stylized dots on a white ground adhered to them. There are four (4) sheets of paper at the front of the album, followed by twenty-five (25) thicker pages that each feature a window for holding two (2) photographs per page, and one (1) sheet of paper at the back of the album. There is room for fifty (50) photographs, though the album contains only forty-seven (47) photographs plus one (1) loose photograph too large to fit into the windowed pages. Windows 20, 21, and 47 are empty. The windows are rectangular with rounded corners and are surrounded by a gold printed border. The front pages include a page with information about the album publisher and an Index page with two printed columns of numbered lines for identifying the photographs. The Index page is not filled out. There is an inscription written in black ink on the first page that reads "To / Emily Howland / From her friend / Carrie Nichols / Jan 1st, 1864 / Camp Todd / Virginia". All of the interior pages are edged in gilt with a design impressed into the top, right side, and bottom edges of the pages that creates a floral spray when the album is closed. The album fastens on the right side with two (2) metal hinged bars that are attached to the back cover and close over metal pins attached to the front cover. The bars are embellished with a three-dimensional metal design imitating a floral fabric looped through a metal buckle.
place: label: Place used
content: Camp Todd, Arlington County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Antislavery
label: Topic
content: Education
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Feminism
label: Topic
content: Local and regional
label: Topic
content: Military
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: Reconstruction, U.S. History, 1865-1877
label: Topic
content: Religion
label: Topic
content: Social reform
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865
label: Topic
content: United States Colored Troops
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Emily Howland Photograph Album
label: Classification
content: Slavery and Freedom Objects
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: Anti-slavery movements
label: Movement
content: Abolitionist movement
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture shared with the Library of Congress
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2017.30
objectType: label: Type
content: photograph albums
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: leather, metal, and ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (closed): 6 1/4 × 5 1/4 × 2 7/8 in. (15.9 × 13.3 × 7.3 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (open with clasps): 6 1/4 × 11 in. (15.9 × 27.9 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (open without clasps): 6 1/4 × 9 in. (15.9 × 22.9 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (Storage container): 5 7/8 × 11 1/4 × 11 7/16 in. (15 × 28.5 × 29 cm)