Box 1

Includes Christmas card, letter concerning financial matter, telegraph concerning shipping business, and a receipt.

Black and white family photographs, including formal portraits, portraits of a pet cat, and snapshots. Black and white photo of British actress Mary Frances Scott-Siddons. Photos were taken in Chicago, Washington DC, Boston, and Richmond and Portland, Maine. Only photo hand labeled is of Helen Lee (Sommersted?), dated 1899.

Black and white photographs of a group of women dressed as men in various theatrical costumes. Photos were taken by the Partridge Company in Boston.

Black and white photographs, possibly removed from a scrapbook. Includes women climbing "Dan's Rock" (Maryland?).

Two cyanotypes with some names. Black and white photographs of the pet cat, Fluffy Ruffles (Howiston?) 1908, people at the beach, and some nature shots.

Black and white photographs, informal snapshots of people inside and outside a home.

Black and white photographs of a farm and workers.

Black and white photographs of a tugboat, the Resolute, and other ships on the water, men outside cabins, and possibly a mill. On ther verso of the photographs is written "A.B. Houdlette, artist, Richmond, Me."