Clark and Stebbins Family Daguerreotypes

Title

Clark and Stebbins Family Daguerreotypes

Subject

Subject -- Studio Photograph -- Single Portrait

Description

Cased Photograph File

Creator

Elizabeth Stebbins Waterbury Clark 1827-1913

Date

ca. 1845

Contributor

Frederick Hamilton Clark

Rights

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Language

En-US

Type

Still Image

Text

These photographs come from the estate of Henry Austin Clark Sr. (1865-1951). Identified portraits include: Clark, Frederick Hamilton (3) Clark, Josephine Jennings, Francis Osborn Jennings, Henry (2) Jennings, Lib Knapp, James Noble, Fitzgerold Osborn, George L. (3) Stebbins, John Stebbins, Russel, Jr. Stebbins, Samuel (?) Walter, Miss Jarvis Wheeler, Alan Wheeler, Mrs. A.H. Wheeler, Emma Wheeler, Helen (3) Wheeler, Mary Jennings (3) Wheeler, Ned Wheeler, Rosanna Clark (4)

These vintage images were passed down by the family of Dr. Frederick Hamilton Clark, New York City dental surgeon, and Elizabeth Stebbins (Waterbury) Clark, who descended from Benoni Stebbins (1655–1704) killed at the 1704 Deerfield, MA massacre. His son,  Benjamin Stebbins (1692-1780) survived the massacre and was among the first to settle Ridgefield, Connecticut and married to Sarah Mead (1695–1774). Their son was Joseph Stebbins (1733–1794) who married Joanna Smith (1743–1793).

These daguerreotypes are the family members and friends of  son, Samuel Stebbins (1762–1836) and wife, Ruth Wilson (1762–1850) and their children John Stebbins (1783–1834), Betsy Stebbins Hawley (1785–1878), William Stebbins (1786–1873), Ruth Stebbins (1789–1851), Joanna Stebbins (1793–1866), Samuel S Stebbins 1796-1852, Sarah Stebbins (1798–1892), Cecilia Stebbins Waterbury (1802–1871), Mary Emma Stebbins Dauchy (1805–1860). Also their grandchildren, John Wilson Stebbins (1807–1837), Charles Largin Stebbins (1809–1836), Henry G. Stebbins (1811–1881), Mary Garland (1813–1882), Emma Stebbins (1815–1882), Angeline Fleming (1818–1896), William Stebbins (1820), and Caroline Tilton (1828–1901). Mary Hawley Hatch (1817–1899), Sarah Maria Stebbins Merrill (1812–1870), Emma Louisa Bowne (1814), William Stebbins (1817), James Jordan Stebbins (1821–1848), Alfred Stebbins (1825–1903), Adelaide Huntington (1827–1856), Elizabeth Waterbury Clark (1827–1913), Henry Waterbury (1831–1891).

On March 5, 2015 the lot was auctioned by Cowan's Auctions 
http://www.cowanauctions.com/auctions/item.aspx?id=158452#


Original Format

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Files

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Date Added
May 27, 2014
Collection
Stebbins Family papers
Item Type
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Citation
Elizabeth Stebbins Waterbury Clark 1827-1913, “Clark and Stebbins Family Daguerreotypes,” Henry Austin Clark Sr. Library, accessed May 16, 2024, https://haclibrary.omeka.net/items/show/113.