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Cecilia Beaux papers, 1863-1968

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Series 6: Photographs, circa 1888-1919
0.3 Linear feet
Box 3

Photographs in this series include formal portraits of Cecilia Beaux and informal photographs of Beaux alone and with colleagues, friends, and family members in various settings including Concarneau, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Gloucester, and Malines, Belgium. Also found is a photograph of John Singer Sargent painting, shot from behind, and photographs of paintings by Beaux.
Photographs are arranged by subject and described in the folder list. Nitrate negatives of photographs taken at Green Alley and snapshots of family members were printed and discarded. Images in this group are separated into folders for vintage prints made during Beaux's lifetime, recent prints from the discarded nitrate negatives, duplicates, and copy negatives.
Additional photographs are found in the Correspondence series. See series description for further details.
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Portraits of Cecilia Beaux, 1917, undated
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Portraits of Cecilia Beaux, 1917, undated
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Beaux in Groups, circa 1888-1889, undated
One photograph believed to be CB in Concarneau, France with Mary Ursula Whitlock, Alexander Harrison, and others; the other shows Beaux with the Carnegie Institute Jury in 1899, including Walter Elmer Schofield, Anders Zorn, and Frank Duveneck, (front row L to R) John Wesley Beatty, William Merritt Chase, Cecilia Beaux, Edmund Tarbell, Julian Alden Weir, unidentified English judge, and possibly Charles Harold Davis.
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Beaux in Groups, circa 1888-1889, undated
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Beaux in Academic Robes, 1908
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Beaux Painting Cardinal Mercier, Malines, Belgium, 1919
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Green Alley, Gloucester, Massachusetts, after 1905
Several pictures depict Beaux outside her home, alone and with others who are unidentified; includes vintage prints.
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Green Alley, Gloucester, Massachusetts, undated
Several pictures depict Beaux outside her home, alone and with others who are unidentified; recent prints from discarded nitrate negatives.
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Green Alley, Gloucester, Massachusetts, undated
Several pictures depict Beaux outside her home, alone and with others who are unidentified; recent duplicate prints from discarded nitrate negatives.
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Green Alley, Gloucester, Massachusetts, undated
Several pictures depict Beaux outside her home, alone and with others who are unidentified; copy negatives.
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Beaux's Family Members, undated
Pictured are Beaux's nephew Harry Drinker and her Aunt Eliza; vintage prints.
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Beaux's Family Members, undated
Pictured are Beaux's nephew Harry Drinker and her Aunt Eliza; recent prints from discarded nitrate negatives.
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Beaux's Family Members, undated
Pictured are Beaux's nephew Harry Drinker and her Aunt Eliza; copy negatives.
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John Singer Sargent, 1903
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John Singer Sargent, 1903
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Unidentified Woman, undated
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Photographs of Works of Art, Installation Views, undated
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Photographs of Works of Art, undated
Not scanned
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