Atkins family photographs, ca. 1884-ca. 1958, guide to the photograph collection

Atkins family photographs, ca. 1884-ca. 1958, guide to the photograph collection

Alvarez, Jose, photographer.

Atkins, Edwin Farnsworth, 1850-1926 --Photographs.

Atkins, Katharine W., 1860-1953 --Photographs.

Atkins family--Photograph collections.

Barbour, Thomas, 1884-1946 --Photographs.

This collection contains photographs taken and collected by the Atkins family of Boston and Belmont, Mass., sugar merchants engaged in trade with Cuba, 1845-1950. The bulk of the photos are of various cities and seaports in Cuba, as well as of Soledad, the estate where the family's sugar business, E. Atkins & Co., was located. There are also a number of images of the Harvard Botanical Garden and the Harvard Botanical Laboratory, both of which were located on the grounds of Soledad, and portraits and snapshots of various Atkins and Weeks family members in Cuba.

The Atkins family took and collected these photographs described in this finding aid by the Massachusetts Historical Society

MHS Photo. Collection. 37.

Massachusetts Historical Society, www.masshist.org

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