Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
PH 1932.02 |
Title |
Winchester Historical and Genealogical Society Photograph Album |
Collection |
Photograph Collection |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Scope & Content |
This album contains 47 portrait photographs of members of the Winchester Historical and Genealogical Society, which was active from 1884 to 1898. Some of the photographs have handwritten notes about the subject on the back. |
Admin/Biographical History |
Abijah Thompson initiated the WHGS during the summer of 1884 when he approached George Cooke to prepare papers for the organization and regulations of such a society. Cooke produced a prospectus and draft constitution and bylaws. In November 1884, the WHGS was formed. "The objects of this society," states the constitution, "shall be to collect, preserve, and supply to inquirers the facts of the local history of Winchester, and such family genealogies as may be offered to its archives; and to prepare, or cause to be prepared, from time to time, such paper relative to these subjects as may be of public interest to our citizens." In addition to seven officers, 38 men and women signed the constitution and became members of the WHGS. Monthly meetings were held from September to May. Two customary pieces of business at all meetings were the announcement of donations and the reading of papers, later published in The Winchester Record. After the construction of Town Hall in 1887, the WHGS used the room above the reading room in the Public Library, then located in one wing of the Town Hall. As time passed, most of the original active members of the WHGS died. In 1898 the WHGS itself quietly expired after voting to turn over its property to the trustees of the public library for safe-keeping. Dates for those members whose photographs are in the collection have been provided below. Unless otherwise noted, it is assumed that they were residents of Winchester at the time, though some later moved away. |
Copyrights |
Permission to publish material from this collection is subject to approval by the Town of Winchester. |
Finding Aids |
A finding aid with detailed information about the contents of the collection is available. Contact the Archives for a copy. |
Search Terms |
Winchester Historical and Genealogical Society |
People |
Ayer, Albert Ayer, Thomas Prentiss Blanchard, David O. Brown, George P. Clark, Oliver R. Cobb, John R. Cooke, George Edward Cutter, Stephen Cutter, William R. Dunham, Charles H. Dupee, James A. Dwinell, James Follansbee, Charles E. Francis, James B. Herrick, Moses Holt, Stephen A. Johnson, Henry F. Johnson, Warren Littlefield, George S. Littlefield, George T. Lunt, Charles F. Miller, Henry Childs Miller, Mary H. Page, Frederick H. Parker, Harrison Pratt, William Richardson, John Winslow Richardson, Nathaniel Richardson, Sumner Sanderson, Edmund Seymour, Charles R. Skillings, David Nelson Stone, Edward Stratton, George Symmes, Luther Thatcher, Henry Knox Thompson, Abijah Thompson, Leander Thompson, Maria Thompson, Stephen Twombly, Samuel Walker Wadleigh, Edwin A. Whitney, Arthur Eastman Woodbury, James A. Youngman, David |
Containers |
Winchester Historical and Genealogical Society Photograph Album |