A Guide to Photographs of the Gaines family , 1850-1922 #10716-a

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Preferred Citation

Photographs of the Gaines family, 1850-1892, Accession #10716-a, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was given to the Library by Nancy P. Allan of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, on January 4, 1989.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of thirty-one photographs, ca. 1850-1922, including ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, cartes-de-viste, sepia photographs, a postcard, and a snapshot.

These photographs include not only those of the Gaines family but also the Sutton family, a Richmond family involved in real estate and law, related to the Gaines family through the marriage of Sallie Gaines and James Taylor Sutton in 1856.

Contents List

Photographs

John Dickson Gaines (1857-?)
Lucius Henry Gaines
Marcus Junius Gaines
Mary Ann Gaines (1856-?)
Mary Ann Camm Gaines
[Richard Gaines?]
Rose Britton Gaines
[Dr. Thomas Gaines?]
Nannie (Sutton) and Nicholas Thomas Purdy
Frank Taylor Sutton, Sr.
Judge Frank Taylor Sutton, Jr.
James Junius Sutton
Lillian Gayle Sutton
Richard Gaines Sutton
Sallie Gaines Sutton
Watt Plow Co., Inc., store front (postcard)