Daguerreotype, Charles Grandison Finney and Elizabeth Grandison Finney, ca. 1850

Formerly Series X. Consists of three photographic albums, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, a drawing, and photographs. Two photographic albums, dated ca. 1860s, belonged to William C. Cochran, and show Cochran progress in age from a child into an adult. Daguerreotypes and ambrotypes include early images of Caroline Mary Rudd Allen (dated ca. 1853), Carrie N. Allen (dated ca. 1850s), George Nelson Allen (undated), and Charles Grandison Finney (dated ca. 1850s). Photographs depict all members of the Allen family, as well as William C. Cochran (dated ca. 1860s), Susan Allen Wright (undated), and John and Hope Cox Pope (dated 1901). Images are arranged alphabetically and then chronologically. Also contains two specimens, amythest stone and a fragment of petrified wood, that were originally part of Allen’s “Cabinet Collection.”