Charles Henry Currier Collection
Photographs of middle class life in Boston, 1890s-1910s
Collection digitized? No.
The Currier Collection provides a glimpse of middle class
life in Boston at the turn of the century. Charles Henry Currier
(1851-1938), a successful Boston jeweler, became a professional
photographer in 1889. Over a twenty-year period, Currier photographed
homes, offices, factories, charitable institutions, and recreational
organizations in the Boston area, frequently portraying clients
at work or with friends and family. He destroyed all of his
glass plate negatives except those acquired by the Library
from Ernst Halberstadt in 1950. The negatives have been reproduced
as 523 reference prints and are filed by subject. The Currier
Collection is recorded in the
catalog of the Prints and Photographs
Division. Many items from the collection were featured in an exhibition at
the Rose Art
Museum at Brandeis University and described in the catalog Charles H. Currier,
a Boston Photographer (Active ca. 1887-1910): An Exhibition of the Poses Institute
of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum,
March 15-April 12, 1964 ([Waltham, Mass.: 1964] [16] p.
TR140.C8B7).
Note: Information for this entry was compiled
in the late 1970's for inclusion in: Special Collections
in the Library of Congress: A Selective Guide. Compiled
by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress,
1980. The entry has not been revised.
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