Edwin E. Witte Papers, 1903-1970

Container Title
M94-176
Series: Visual Materials
Subseries: Thwaites Family iconographic collections
Note: Some material originally boxed with this photographic material has been integrated into the Thwaites Manuscript Collection, Wis Mss VJ
Separated: Blanchard Harper (RGT family friend) glass plate negatives added to existing negatives series (H3), (H31), (H32), (H302).
Box   1
Fredrik (or Frederick) Turville (or Turvill) Thwaites
Box   1
Small album: trip to Arizona, New Mexico and California, 1905
Box   1
Small album: trip to Rocky Mountains, Pikes Reak, circa 1906
Box   1
4 albums: Geological travels, 1905-1920
Box   1
Album: Amy Mueller travel snapshots, circa 1928-1932
Box   2-3
F.T. Thwaites albums, circa 1923-1955
Note: 1 album unnumbered; 9 albums with photos numbered 1-2579.
Box   4
F.T. Thwaites negatives, most corresponding to numbered geological albums
Box   5
Lantern slides, lecture on trip to Britain, 1883?
Box   5
Lantern slides, trip to Norway, 1902
Box   5
Herbarium scrapbook of botanical samples by Jessie T. Thwaites begun in 1871
Box   5
Cartes de visites and cabinet card album of Turvill family (English relations)
Box   5
Cartes de visite album, Christmas 1877
Box   5
Reuben Gold Thwaites family cartes de visite album from Turvill family
Box   5
“Gem” thumbnail tintype album Turvill/Thwaites families
Reuben Gold Thwaites travel albums
Volume I
Box   6
“Photographs taken by Reuben G. Thwaites”
Box   6
Virginia and West Virginia Bicycling Trip, 1901
Box   6
Morris Park, 1901 July 20-August 5
Box   6
Library Conference, Lake Placid, New York, 1901 September 22-30
Box   6
Yellowstone Park, 1903
Box   6
Jackson's Lake, 1903
Volume II
Box   6
“Photographs taken by Reuben Gold Thwaites”
Box   6
Yellowstone Park (Geo. K. McConnell, photographer), 1903
Box   6
Driving trip to Washington (F. Thwaites, photographer), 1903 August
Box   6
Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, etc., 1904
Box   6
Santa Fe, New Mexico and California, 1905
Volume III
Box   6
“Photographs taken by Reuben Gold Thwaites,” 1905-1913
Box   6
High Sierras, 1905
Box   6
Cornwall, Brittany and Normandy, 1907
Box   6
New Hampshire, 1909
Box   6
Caribbean trip, 1913 February-March
Box   6
“Yachting Cruise in the West Indies” (Cuba, Jamaica, Panama Canal Zone, Martinique, Porto Rico)
Box   6
“Photograph taken in Europe by Reuben Gold Thwaites” (Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Paris, England), 1897 May-September
Box   6
Norway, etc., photographs by Reuben Gold Thwaites, volumes 1 and 2, 1902
Box   6
Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, “with a few bits in the Laurel Hills,” Reuben G. Thwaites, photographer, 1894 May 3-June 11
Note: Later described in Afloat on the Ohio
Set of rough proofs from original negatives produced 1991.
Box   6
1891 England bike trip, R.G. Thwaites, photographer described in Our Cycling Tour in England, 1892
Note: Photocopy: original returned to donors, 1989.
Box   6
Partial album with some views from American Library Association, 1899
Box   6
Georgia, etc.
Note: corresponding negatives separated and filed as Negative series (T53); some still in Box 4
Box   7
Snapshots by William Thwaites
Box   8
Flat box of loose album pages of Blanchard Harper photos of the Turvill family, Lakeside, etc.
Loose photographs in categorized envelopes
Box   9
Langdon Street houses, 1886, 1898, 1909
Box   9
Old Turville Point house, 1889-1899
Box   9
The Old Homestead, 1885
Box   9
Picnics, Hunting, Boating (mostly on Turvill farm)
Box   9
Turvill farm, scenic views, family outdoors
Box   9
Farm activities, Turville Point
Box   9
Thwaites Cottage, Lakeside, 1887, 1895
Box   9
Thwaites house at Turville Wood, circa 1910
Box   9
Miscellaneous Madison views
Box   9
Portraits: including Thwaites, Turvill and family members, and Historical Society staff
Negative Series WHi(T53)
Subseries: Nitrate negatives, 1891-1907
Note: See Appendix A for item descriptions.
Access Restrictions: Use of nitrate negatives restricted. Consult reference archivist regarding access to negatives.
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