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Compiled and written by Kimberli Faulkner Hull
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In September 2021, a photo album containing 47 cabinet card photographs was purchased at the Sandwich, Massachusetts Bazaar Flea Market. The album contained no markings to identify the original owner of the album. All but one of the photographs were taken in New Bedford, Massachusetts and several of the photographs were dated 1890.

The New Bedford High School Class of 1890

Of the 47 cabinet cards in the album, 43 people have been identified. Of the 43 identified, one, Ray Greene Huling, was the high school principal in 1890 and all but two graduated from New Bedford High School in 1890.¹ The two that were not part of the graduating class were siblings of someone who graduated in 1890 – Cyrus Chapman Howland, the brother of Blanche Russell Howland, and Edward Slocum, the brother of Frederick Slocum.²

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The Photographers

All but one of the photographs were taken by three New Bedford photographers:³

• John O’Neil in the Hastings Building at 88 Purchase Street, 18 photos
• Headley and Reed at 5 Purchase Street, 21 photos
• Henry W. Smith at 25 Purchase Street, 2 photos

The one photograph not taken by the three local photographers was Harriet “Hattie” Newton Hyatt’s, taken by her uncle, noted photographer, Isaiah West Taber, of San Francisco, California, formerly of Fairhaven, Massachusetts.⁴

1890 New Bedford, Massachusetts photo album

Photos of the album were taken exactly as when the album was acquired. Profiles with full-size photos for each of the people in the photo album are linked from their names below, which are in the order they appeared in the album. An alphabetical list linking to the profiles follows this section.

Alphabetical list of profiles

* Not a member of the New Bedford High School Class of 1890

Description and Acquisition

Item: 1890 New Bedford, Massachusetts photo album containing 47 cabinet card photographs
Item acquisition: Sandwich, Massachusetts Bazaar Flea Market
Relationship: None found.

Endnotes

1. “New Bedford High School Class of 1890”; photograph held by the New Bedford Free Public Library photograph collection, New Bedford, Massachusetts; published online at Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collection Online.

Also, Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of New Bedford, with the Superintendent’s Annual Report, for the Year 1890, (New Bedford : Mercury Publishing Company, 1891), p. 21-23, New Bedford High School Graduating Exercises, 27 June 1890.

Also, “Class of ‘90,” newspaper article, The Evening Standard (New Bedford, Massachusetts), 28 June 1890, p. 2, col. 6.

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2. Kimberli Faulkner Hull, author, “Edward M. Slocum (1871–1949),” Chasing Light Media, Cool Adventures (https://cooladventures.com/collection/edward-m-slocum-1871-1949/ : posted 2021).

Also, Kimberli Faulkner Hull, author, “Cyrus Chapman Howland (1871–1920),” Chasing Light Media, Cool Adventures (https://cooladventures.com/collection/cyrus-chapman-howland-1871-1920/ : posted 2021).

Also, Annual Report of the Public Schools of New Bedford, Mass. 1891. (New Bedford, E. Anthony and Sons, City Printers, 1892), page prior to title page, New Bedford High School drawing, artist unknown.

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3. W. A Greenough, complier, The New Bedford City Directory 1889, (New Bedford, Massachusetts : W. A Greenough, 1889), p. 508, Photographers.

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4. “Noted Photographer of City for Forty Years Passes Away,” Isaiah West Taber obituary, The San Francisco Call (San Francisco, California), 23 Feb 1912.

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5. “Admission to the High School,” newspaper article, The Evening Standard (New Bedford, Massachusetts), 10 July 1886, p. 5, col. 3.

Admitted from Fifth Street School (with photographs in 1890 album):

Admitted from Middle Street School (with photographs in 1890 album):

Admitted from Parker Street School (with photographs in 1890 album):

Admitted from Acushnet Village School (with photographs in 1890 album)

• Hattie N. Hyatt

Graduated from New Bedford High School with a photograph but not on the admissions list

• Hattie Seabury Davis [lived in Little Compton, Rhode Island during childhood]

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Additional Resources

• Bristol County, Massachusetts Genealogy Library and Resources
• Massachusetts Genealogy Library and Resources
• Rhode Island Genealogy Library and Resources
• Unknown individuals in 1890 photo album

Citing this page: Kimberli Faulkner Hull, author and compiler, “1890 New Bedford, Massachusetts photo album” Cool Adventures ( https://cooladventures.com/collection/1890-photo-album/ : published 2021); privately held by the Faulkner–Hull Collection, Massachusetts.

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