Scrapbook containing photographs and articles concerning mines owned or operated by James Whitlatch in various regions of Montana and New Mexico. Views include the Whitlatch Union Mine and the Park Gold Mines, worker housing, views of Helena, Montana, scenery in Montana and Utah, and scenes of Salt Lake City. The last several pages of the album are devoted to unidentified cartes-de-visite portraits. The clippings follow the mining career and social activities of James Whitlatch through the 1900s.
Description:
51 photographs are 25.4 x 19.4 cm. or smaller and 34 cartes-de-visite are 5.6 x 8.6 cm. or smaller. Most of the photographs are accompanied by manuscript or letterpress captions. Included with the photographs are newspaper clippings, magazine articles, trade advertisements, and one drawing of Eugene Whitlatch. A Montana Society of New York program is also included in the scrapbook, in which the name Elijah Woodward is written., Accompanied by a list of photographs., and Purchased from Peter Decker on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 1967.
Subject (Geographic):
Helena (Mont.)--Aerial views, Montana--Pictorial works., and Salt Lake City (Utah)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Montana Society of New York., Park Gold Mines (Mont.), Whitlatch Union Mine (Mont.), and Whitlatch, James W.
A cabinet photograph created by Charles Eisenmann, circa 1886-1894. Eisenmann was a photographer in the Bowery of New York City, circa 1876-1890.
Description:
Acquired from various sources. For more information refer to the material in the collection. and Millie-Christine (1851-1912), also known as Millie McKoy and Christine McKoy were African American conjoined twins and entertainers. Millie-Christine were born on July 11, 1851, to Monemia and Jacob, slaves owned by Jabez McKay on a plantation in Welches Creek, North Carolina. Around eighteen months after their birth, McKay sold the girls to Joseph Pearson Smith (1815-1862) of Wadesboro, North Carolina. Smith and his wife, Mary Aleff Cooper Smith (1822-1893) educated the twins; they could speak five languages, dance, play music, and sing. During their lifetime, Millie-Christine enjoyed a successful career as "The Two-Headed Nightingale." On October 8, 1912, Millie died of tuberculosis, while doctors euthanized Christine.
Subject (Name):
Eisenmann, Charles, 1850-, Millie-Christine, 1851-1912, and Millie-Christine,--1851-1912--Portraits.
Subject (Topic):
African American entertainers--Pictorial works, African American singers--Pictorial works., African American women--Pictorial works., African American women--Portraits., Conjoined twins--Pictorial works., and Conjoined twins--Portraits.
A cabinet photograph created by Frank Wendt, circa 1900. Wendt was a photographer in the Bowery of New York City, 1893-1897, and Boonton, New Jersey, from 1897-circa 1905.
Description:
Acquired from various sources. For more information refer to the material in the collection. and Millie-Christine (1851-1912), also known as Millie McKoy and Christine McKoy were African American conjoined twins and entertainers. Millie-Christine were born on July 11, 1851, to Monemia and Jacob, slaves owned by Jabez McKay on a plantation in Welches Creek, North Carolina. Around eighteen months after their birth, McKay sold the girls to Joseph Pearson Smith (1815-1862) of Wadesboro, North Carolina. Smith and his wife, Mary Aleff Cooper Smith (1822-1893) educated the twins; they could speak five languages, dance, play music, and sing. During their lifetime, Millie-Christine enjoyed a successful career as "The Two-Headed Nightingale." On October 8, 1912, Millie died of tuberculosis, while doctors euthanized Christine.
Subject (Name):
Millie-Christine, 1851-1912 and Millie-Christine,--1851-1912--Portraits.
Subject (Topic):
African American entertainers--Pictorial works, African American women--Pictorial works., African American women--Portraits., Conjoined twins--Pictorial works., and Conjoined twins--Portraits.
A carte-de-visite photograph created by the studio of Brown, Barnes, & Bell, circa 1885, inlaid in a page from album with manuscript inscription by an unidentified person that describes Millie-Christine and their physiology. Based chiefly in Liverpool, Brown, Barnes, & Bell operated studios throughout the United Kingdom, 1877-1933.
Description:
Acquired from various sources. For more information refer to the material in the collection. and Millie-Christine (1851-1912), also known as Millie McKoy and Christine McKoy were African American conjoined twins and entertainers. Millie-Christine were born on July 11, 1851, to Monemia and Jacob, slaves owned by Jabez McKay on a plantation in Welches Creek, North Carolina. Around eighteen months after their birth, McKay sold the girls to Joseph Pearson Smith (1815-1862) of Wadesboro, North Carolina. Smith and his wife, Mary Aleff Cooper Smith (1822-1893) educated the twins; they could speak five languages, dance, play music, and sing. During their lifetime, Millie-Christine enjoyed a successful career as "The Two-Headed Nightingale." On October 8, 1912, Millie died of tuberculosis, while doctors euthanized Christine.
Subject (Name):
Brown, Barnes & Bell, Millie-Christine, 1851-1912, and Millie-Christine,--1851-1912--Portraits.
Subject (Topic):
African American entertainers--Pictorial works, African American singers--Pictorial works., African American women--Pictorial works., African American women--Portraits., Conjoined twins--Pictorial works., and Conjoined twins--Portraits.
A carte-de-visite photograph created by Louis Bertin, circa 1874-1886. Bertin was a photographer in Brighton, England, 1874-1886.
Description:
Acquired from various sources. For more information refer to the material in the collection. and Millie-Christine (1851-1912), also known as Millie McKoy and Christine McKoy were African American conjoined twins and entertainers. Millie-Christine were born on July 11, 1851, to Monemia and Jacob, slaves owned by Jabez McKay on a plantation in Welches Creek, North Carolina. Around eighteen months after their birth, McKay sold the girls to Joseph Pearson Smith (1815-1862) of Wadesboro, North Carolina. Smith and his wife, Mary Aleff Cooper Smith (1822-1893) educated the twins; they could speak five languages, dance, play music, and sing. During their lifetime, Millie-Christine enjoyed a successful career as "The Two-Headed Nightingale." On October 8, 1912, Millie died of tuberculosis, while doctors euthanized Christine.
Subject (Name):
Bertin, Louis, b. ca. 1827., Millie-Christine, 1851-1912, and Millie-Christine,--1851-1912--Portraits.
Subject (Topic):
African American entertainers--Pictorial works, African American women--Pictorial works., African American women--Portraits., Conjoined twins--Pictorial works., and Conjoined twins--Portraits.
A carte-de-visite photograph created by Washington Lafayette Germon, circa 1865-1872. Germon was a photographer active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1846-1877.
Description:
Acquired from various sources. For more information refer to the material in the collection. and Millie-Christine (1851-1912), also known as Millie McKoy and Christine McKoy were African American conjoined twins and entertainers. Millie-Christine were born on July 11, 1851, to Monemia and Jacob, slaves owned by Jabez McKay on a plantation in Welches Creek, North Carolina. Around eighteen months after their birth, McKay sold the girls to Joseph Pearson Smith (1815-1862) of Wadesboro, North Carolina. Smith and his wife, Mary Aleff Cooper Smith (1822-1893) educated the twins; they could speak five languages, dance, play music, and sing. During their lifetime, Millie-Christine enjoyed a successful career as "The Two-Headed Nightingale." On October 8, 1912, Millie died of tuberculosis, while doctors euthanized Christine.
Subject (Name):
Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette), Millie-Christine, 1851-1912, and Millie-Christine,--1851-1912--Portraits.
Subject (Topic):
African American entertainers--Pictorial works, African American women--Pictorial works., African American women--Portraits., Conjoined twins--Pictorial works., and Conjoined twins--Portraits.
Three photographs forming a panoramic view of Portland, with houses in clearings in foreground, Willamette River in middle distance and Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens in background.
Description:
Carleton E. Watkins, photographer of the American West, travelled to Oregon in 1867 to take photographs along the Columbia and Willamette Rivers., Three photographs forming a panorama 39 x 151.9 cm. when joined., and Title devised by cataloger. Attribution to Watkins appears on back of photographs. Photographs dated from reference sources.
Subject (Geographic):
Hood, Mount (Or.)--Pictorial works., Portland (Or.)--Pictorial works., and Saint Helens, Mount (Wash.)
