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    COFFIN/ROBINSON FAMILY PAPERS
 MSG# 50

SERIES IV	PHOTOGRAPHS	DATES
2.5' (4 boxes)		1880-1940

The Photograph Series consists of a group of loose photographs and one photo album of the Robinson and Coffin families and the places they frequented. Although many of the photographs have been identified, about one quarter of them remain unidentified.

Perhaps the most interesting item in the series is an album of photographs are taken by Ruth Robinson in 1900 and 1901. All the photos are identified in her own handwriting and provide a fascinating glimpse of life in America at the turn of the century. In addition to the only photographs of Edgewood Farm in the collection, the album contains photographs taken during a visit to Camden, South Carolina. Those photographs reveal a great deal about the South as it poised on the brink of the twentieth century. There are photographs of antebellum mansions and former slave quarters in which blacks still lived. There is even a photograph of an elderly black couple identified as former slaves. Finally, in this album are several photographs of the remains of the famous Narragansett Casino, taken the day after the magnificent hotel along Ocean Road in Narragansett was destroyed by fire.

Also of interest in this series are photographs of most of the principal members of the two families, Isaac, Jeremiah, and Ruth Robinson, and Elsie, Tristram, Peter, and Trelsie Coffin.

The series is arranged alphabetically by the name of the person or place photographed. Ruth Robinson's photo album is at the beginning of the series and photographs of unidentified people and places are grouped together at the end of the series.

BOX	FOLDER	FOLDER TITLE	DATES
14	97	Album of Ruth Robinson	1900-1901
	98	Cary, William	n.d.
	99	Church, William	n.d.
	100	Coffin, Elsie P. R.	n.d.
	101	Coffin, Elsie P. R.	n.d.
	102	Coffin, Elsie P. R.	n.d.
	103	Coffin, Peter and Tristram P. [?]	ca.1920
15	104	Coffin, Trelsie	n.d
	105	Coffin, Tristram R.	ca.1925
	106	Coffin/Robinson Family Member	n.d.
	107	Pate, Grandmother and Grandfather	1890?
	108	Robinson, Ellen Pate	n.d.
	109	Robinson, Isaac R.	n.d.
	110	Robinson, Jeremiah P.  See also: Oversize	n.d.
	111	Marshall, Alexander and Pearse, Joseph  See:  Oversize	n.d.
	112	Robinson, Ruth [?]	n.d.
	113	Robinson, Ruth [?]	n.d.
	114	Rod, the Family Dog	n.d.
	115	Thomas, A. E.	n.d.
	116	Unidentified People	n.d.
16	117	Unidentified People  See: Oversize	n.d.
	118	Unidentified People	n.d.
	119	Unidentified People	n.d.
	120	Marginal Dock Company	n.d.
	121	Unidentified Places	n.d.
	122	Unidentified Places	n.d.
	123	Unidentified Places	n.d.
17	124	Unidentified Places	n.d.

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