Item 51: Albumen Print Photograph by Unknown of the McClintock Family, Commissioned by Augusta McClintock, [ca. 1890s]

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 51

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Albumen Print Photograph by Unknown of the McClintock Family, Commissioned by Augusta McClintock, [ca. 1890s]

Dates

Created: [ca. 1890s]

Disclaimer for Name and Subject Authorities

Some of the name and subject authority tags have been assigned by educated guessing and estimation of persons and subjects by region, age, profession, and familial relationships. They have been thoroughly researched by using primary and secondary sources available digitally, and named in each description, or in some cases linked directly to the person tag.

Access:

All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.

Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Photograph

Condition Note:

Good. There is some flaking to the backing.

Measurements:

Backing: 8 ½ in. x 5 ¼ in.; Photograph: 5 x 7 ⅛ in.

Description:

The following item depicts an albumen print photograph depicting Andrew Hamilton McClintock, with his father, Andrew Todd McClintock, holding two young children. The children are most likely those of Andrew Hamilton McClintock, Andrew Todd McClintock and Gilbert Stuart McClintock. The reverse of the manuscript has an annotation that appears with Augusta McClintock’s name, the wife of Andrew Todd and mother of Andrew Hamilton. An albumen print photograph was a photographic method that utilized egg whites, the albumen, to create a smooth surface to produce a shine to the page. The page was first coated with the albumen, layered with a silver nitrate solution in order to produce light-sensitive silver salts. Lastly, the glass negative would be placed on the page and exposed to light, revealing the image captured. The date for the image has been estimated by the ages of the two children, Andrew and Gilbert, who were born 1885-1886. Their young ages would put them no later than the early 1890s.