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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library Photo Archives
Title: Hamilton Andrews Hill family collection of photographs of Europe
Creator:
Hill (Family : Hill, Hamilton Andrews,
1827-1895)
Identifier/Call Number: photCL 350
Physical Description:
7.5 Linear Feet
(5 boxes).
Date (inclusive): approximately
1890s
Abstract: Photographs of Europe dating from
approximately 1890s, collected by the Hamilton Andrews Hill family of Boston,
Massachusetts.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. Hamilton Andrews Hill family collection of photographs of Europe,
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of H. Stanton Hill, grandson of Hamilton Andrews Hill, 1986.
Hamilton Andrews Hill (1827-1895) was born in London and immigrated to the United States
with his family in 1841. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and was
secretary of the Boston Board of Trade. He authored many books, including History of the Old
South Church (Third Church) Boston, published in 1890. After his first wife died, he married
Anna Frances Carruth (1846-1914) of Boston, in 1869, and they had two children: Anna C. Hill
(1871-) and Hamilton Hill (1874-1940).
A collection of 632 photographs in 11 albums of cities and scenery of Europe, dating from
approximately 1890s. The photographs were collected and mounted into albums by the Hamilton
Andrew Hill family of Boston, Massachusetts beginning in 1890, when members of the family
sailed to Great Britain, May 3, 1890 (written at the beginning of Album 1). Primarily
cabinet-sized prints, with some larger, the images are by various European photographers
including George Washington Wilson, James Valentine, Francis Frith & Company, Francis
Bedford, and Fratelli Alinari. The first three albums have captions in ink and some pressed
flowers glued to pages; the others have no writing. Views include architecture, ancient
ruins, people, city and street scenes, photographs of paintings and statues, and other
scenes, and depict primarily Great Britain, Italy, France, Austria, Switzerland, Germany,
and Holland.
Processed by Huntington Library staff, circa late-20th century. In 2021, Suzanne Oatey
created a finding aid derived from a collection file.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs
Photograph albums
Austria -- Description and travel
Europe -- Description and
travel
France -- Description and
travel
Germany -- Description and
travel
Great Britain -- Description and
travel
Italy -- Description and
travel
Switzerland -- Description and travel
Bedford, Francis,
1816-1894
F. Frith & Co
Fratelli Alinari
Hills &
Saunders
Valentine, James,
1815-1879
Wilson, G. W.
(George Washington), 1823-1893