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a huge assortment of photographs, manuscripts, and other ephemera related to the family of Nathaniel Williams of Boston, Massachusetts and the Devereux family of Philadelphia. Photography includes a fine cdv album in red velvet with 8 albumen cdvs with imprints from Philadelphia, Boston and Rome; PLUS larger photo album with 28 cabinet cards and 10 cdvs and cdv-sized tintypes, including some truly spectacular homes, sporting teams and many identified portraits, with Philadelphia and Boston imprints; PLUS another larger album with 100+ cdvs, mostly albumen, including some fine shots of children and their toys, a naval officer, with imprints from Philadelphia, Boston, Lima, Germany, Italy, England and several other European countries and ca 10 cabinet cards; PLUS a sixth plate daguerreotype of a woman in Boston leather-covered push-button-type case; PLUS another sixth plate daguerreotype of a middle aged gentleman, stamped on mat S. Broadbent, housed in embossed paper-covered case. In 1841-1842, Samuel Broadbent was listed as a daguerrian at 136 Nassau Street, New York City. In 1843-1844 he was listed as a daguerrian in Savannah, Ga., and was noted as traveling south in the winter, daguerreotyping, between 1843 and 1847. In 1845 he was noted as a daguerrian in both Macon and Athens, Ga. PLUS two oval 6th plate images on milk glass, one in velvet oval case and second in shadow box frame with label of Williams & Everett Boston, each with portraits of young ladies; PLUS 2 trimmed cdvs in brass kick stand frames; PLUS 40+ loose cdvs; PLUS 8 loose cabinet cards; PLUS a stack of Kodak 5" x 2.5" negatives, mostly of European trips; PLUS 20+ boudoir cards; AND a few loose images of various sizes and vintages. A very large number of these images are identified on verso as to sitter and date taken. Archive also includes an engraved American silver dollar, smoothed and turned into a school medal, 4th place awarded to N. Langdon Williams Jr. 1840, and a cast octagonal coin silver medal from a benevolent society in Philadelphia, the 2 together weigh 36g; plus an engraved steel bookplate with the Williams family crest, marked Geo. B. Sharp 13 Baxter St. N.Y., 4" x 6". Paper items include three bound 12mo half leather ms volumes with book plate of Nathaniel L. Williams Boston 1803, being an account of travel through England, Ireland and Scotland with some quite interesting accounts of industrial unrest, comparison of the British and American justice systems, some interesting social commentary about the lack of morals of the nobility, mainly the men in keeping mistresses and gambling. While impressed with the history of art and architecture of Britain the writer was definitely an American republican at heart and deplores the perceived injustice of the British social, judicial and political system. Also includes accounts of travel through France and Holland, each volume is ca 200 completely filled lined pages and written in a legible hand. PLUS a ms ledger being trustees day book for the estate N.L. Williams of Philadelphia; PLUS a second ledger book with ms Articles of Incorporation of a club formed by the class of 1886, John Hopkins University of which 3 different Williams were in that class; PLUS 5 ms folio volumes on lined paper with silk ribbon binding with the following titles Chronology of Christian Architecture, one untitled 2 volume work in Latin, two volumes of A Chronology of Mosaic Painting, and A Chronology of Tuscan Sculptors, all in English, except as noted and in a quite legible hand; PLUS an ms poem written by Wm K. Williams on half sheet lined paper. Some genealogy is included: a printed family chronology of John S. Hutton whose descendants Mary, married John Devereux in 1799; PLUS a small leather-bound 4to ms volume of poetry by Mrs. Mary Devereux, dated Philadelphia, 1830; PLUS a 20th century ms family history in pencil on lined legal pad type paper; PLUS several 12mo books belonging to a Dr. Wm. Klapp Williams. There is al