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[Photographs from the Edward Lambe Parsons and Bertha Brush Parsons family papers]Abstract:
Photographs documenting multiple generations of the family of Edward Lambe Parsons and his wife Bertha Brush Parsons. Includes
studio portraits and snapshots of Edward and Bertha, their children Harriet, Helen and Arthur, and various family antecedents
and descendants. Also includes snapshots documenting individual and family activities and various Parsons residences, and
two family photograph albums. PIC box 1 includes Parsons and Brush family portraits; portraits of various sports teams and
other groups associated with Edward during his years at Yale; images of Edward and Bertha's wedding; views of Parsons residences
in Berkeley, San Francisco and Saratoga; snapshots of various travels (Greece, Hawaii and Ojai); and a family photograph album
(vol. 1) from the 1920s and 1930s, highlights of which include family residences, family leisure activities, Edward's activities
in the clergy, and 1936 scenes of the construction of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. PIC box 2 contains snapshots documenting
multiple Sierra Club High Trips taken by Harriet Parsons between 1941 and 1951; photographs pertaining to an unidentified
family descendant taken in Pacific Grove in the 1980s; photographs pertaining to a Hodgkins family; and photographs of miscellaneous
and unidentified subject matter. AX folders contain a photograph album (vol. 2) compiled by Helen Elizabeth Dallas (Edward
and Bertha's granddaughter) documenting her childhood and that of her daughter Susannah Dallas Fuchs; a portrait of Harriet
Parsons; group portraits from Edward's Yale years; and a print of St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh. B folder contains a group
portrait documenting the 1919 consecration of Edward Lambe Parsons in San Francisco. H folder contains a panoramic group portrait
of students at Yale University, including Arthur W. Parsons, taken in 1922. CASE box 1 includes 2 daguerreotype portraits
of an unidentified young man (perhaps of the Brush or Keeler family) and young woman, perhaps his wife. CASE box 2 contains
a 19th century portrait photograph on milk glass depicting an unidentified Brush family member with his granddaughters Eliza
and Sarah. Nitrate negatives are snapshots of the Parsons family residence in Saratoga taken in the 1930s.
PIC box 3 includes portraits and snapshots of Edward Lambe Parsons, Bertha Brush Parsons, their children, George Jarvis Brush
and his family, and other family members. PIC box 4 contains miscellaneous portraits and snapshots; photograps of exteriors
and interiors of residences and other buildings; photographs of fine art; postcards; drawings; and a 1916 calendar. AX folders
contain ovesize portraits and views of residences and churches. Nitrate negatives are snapshots depicts miscellaneous scenes,
a few including Edward Lambe Parsons, most of unidentified subjects.
Date:
1860 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caFamilies -- California -- Photographs
Familles -- Californie -- Photographies
Families
Homes
Students
California
Sierra Club -- Photographs
Yale University -- Students -- Portraits
Sierra Club.
Yale University.
Parsons, Edward Lambe -- 1868- -- Archives
Parsons, Bertha DeForest Brush -- 1872-1935 -- Archives
Parsons family -- Photographs
Parsons, Edward Lambe -- 1868- -- Photographs
Parsons, Edward Lambe -- 1868- -- Homes and haunts -- Photographs
Parsons, Bertha DeForest Brush -- 1872-1935 -- Photographs
Parsons, Harriet -- 1901-1991 -- Photographs
Parsons family -- Archives
Brush family -- Archives
Parsons (Famille) -- Archives
Brush family
Parsons, Edward Lambe -- 1868-
Parsons family
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by various Parsons family members.
Also includes nitrate negatives: approximately 25 shelved in NNEG misc. box 13; and 18 shelved in NNEG misc. box 15.
Photograph albums have been disbound for safer handling of contents.
Identified studio photographers include Roberts & Courser (San Francisco), C.H. Williamson (daguerreotype, Brooklyn), L. Alman
(New York), Sarony's (New York), C.D. Frederick's & Co. (New York), W. Kurtz (New York), Randall (New Haven), Phelps (Connecticut),
Gilbert & Bacon (Philadelphia), Lombardi (Brighton), Boyé and Sidney V. Webb.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Daguerreotypes and milk glass photograph (CASE boxes 1-2) : RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the
appropriate curator.
NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.
Transferred from the Edward Lambe Parsons and Bertha Brush Parsons family papers (BANC MSS 2021/132).
Gift ; of Reginald H. Barrett ; 2021.
Additions : Gift ; of The Church Divinity School of the Pacific ; 2019
Edward L. Parsons, 1868-1960, served as pastor at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Berkeley, California, 1904-1919. He was Bishop
of the Episcopal Diocese of San Francisco, 1919-1924, and Bishop of California, 1924-1941. Parsons was a strong activist for
social welfare concerns, and in the promotion of Christian union. Edward Lambe Parsons was born in New York on May 18, 1868.
Intending to become a lawyer, he attended Yale University in 1885, where he and his roommate, Gifford Pinchot, served as deacons
of their class. After graduation Parsons decided instead to attend Union Seminary in New York. Although his family on both
sides were Presbyterians, his petition to the Presbyterian ministry was rejected. He consulted with Bishop William Lawrence,
Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, and attended Episcopal Theological Seminary at Cambridge, graduating in 1894. Parsons spent
a year with Rector William R. Huntington at Grace Church in New York City, and in September 1896 became rector of a small
church in Menlo Park, California. To supplement his salary he taught philosophy at Stanford University. In 1904 Parsons was
called to serve as rector at St. Mark's in Berkeley, where he remained for the next fifteen years.
Bertha DeForest Brush was the daughter of George Jarvis Brush and Harriet Silliman Trumbull of New Haven, Connecticut. She
married Edward Lambe Parsons in 1897. Together, they had four children: Arthur Wellesley, Harriet Trumbull, Helen Clement,
and Lorain de Forest.
Photographs from the Edward Lambe Parsons and Bertha Brush Parsons family papers, BANC PIC 2022.018, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPortrait.
portraits.
Archives.
Photographs.
Portraits.
Photographs albums.
Daguerreotypes.
Panoramic photographs.
Portraits.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 1250 photographs in 6 boxes and 10 oversize folders : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; sheets various sizes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Daguerreotypes and milk glass photograph (CASE boxes 1-2) : RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the
appropriate curator.
NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.