Shipley-Bringhurst-Hargraves Family Papers: Photographs

Shipley, Bringhurst, and Hargraves are the family names associated with Rockwood, a Victorian Rural Gothic Revival mansion and estate that was built in north Wilmington, Delaware, between 1851 and 1854. The photographs series of the family papers (MSS 684 Series IV.A), circa 1840-1980 (bulk dates 1880-1935), comprises approximately ten thousand photos created and kept by the extended Bringhurst family and contains examples of early photographic processes, historic original prints, and later prints developed from original negatives. Virtually every historic type of photography is represented in Series IV.A.: daguerreotypes, tintypes, cyanotypes, cartes-de-visite, albumen prints, and later processes.