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Collection Number: 03367

Collection Title: Elizabeth Amis Cameron Blanchard Papers, 1694-1954

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Size 9.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3,000 items)
Abstract Elizabeth Amis Cameron Hooper Blanchard (1873-1956), a white author, art collector, and interior decorator, was related by birth and marriage to the Amis, Hooper, Blanchard, and Butterworth families, many members of which are represented in the collection. Materials include Blanchard's personal correspondence, chiefly with her mother Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Hooper, and notes, memoranda, diary entries, clippings, pictures, and breeding and racing records, relating to Blanchard's book, The Life and Times of Sir Archie: The Story of America's Greatest Thoroughbred. There are also genealogical materials on the Amis and Dulany families and copies of Amis and Cameron family wills. Family letters of the Amis, Butterworth, and Blanchard families, include letters to and from the four Amis sisters after the death of their mother Sarah Greene Davis Amis in 1852, while they travelled in Europe and lived with their Butterworth relatives in New York and Morristown, N.J.; letters among the Amises and Butterworths after the latter moved, in 1864, to California, where Samuel Butterworth was managing a mine at Almaden; letters from Thomas Amis, who went to live with relatives in Madison Parish, La., in 1870; and correspondence to and from the Blanchards after their marriage when they travelled to Japan, 1906. Also of note are letters from Sarah Greene Davis Amis while she was living on a plantation near Columbus, Miss., in the 1830s and 1840s, to her grandomother in Warrenton, N.C., that document people enslaved by the Amis and Davis families. Additions to the collection include scattered correspondence of Elizabeth Amis Cameron Hooper Blanchard between 1907 and 1954; the expansive memoir of Mary ("Mamie") Emily Amis Hooper, which mentions several enslaved or formerly enslaved people connected to the Amis family and describes enslaved life at Moorfield (Northampton County, N.C.), Little River (Lowndes County, Miss.), and Fortune's Fork (Madison Parish, La.), from the perspective of a white woman; miscellaneous other papers and volumes; and photographs chiefly depicting friends and family members and places visited.
Creator Blanchard, Elizabeth Amis Cameron, d. 1956.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
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Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Elizabeth Amis Cameron Blanchard Papers #3367, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Elizabeth Blanchard of New York City in 1958, from Mrs. F. Graham Jarman in 1968; Dr. F. Graham Jarman Jr. of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., in April and May 1975; John E. Tyler in memory of Margaret Long Tyler in 1993 (Accs. 93040 and 93162); Sarah Gayle Hunter Randolph in 2006 (Acc. 100737); and Charles Randol (C.R.) Harper Wright III in 2023 (Acc. 20230915.1).
Additional Descriptive Resources
Original finding aid filed in folder 1a.
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Processed by: Susan Ballinger, June 1976; Nancy Kaiser, December 2023

Encoded by: Kathryn Michaelis, May 2010

Conscious editing by Nancy Kaiser, December 2023: Updated abstract, subject heading, biographical note, scope and content note, contents list.

This collection was originally received in two parts, Subcollection 3367(A) and Subcollection 3367(B), which have since been divided into three series. An addition was received in 1993.

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

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Elizabeth Amis Cameron Hooper Blanchard (1873-1956), a white author, art collector, and interior decorator, was related by birth and marriage to the Amis, Hooper, Blanchard, and Butterworth families. Other people represented in the collection include her husband, John Osgood Blanchard (d. ca. 1912); her mother, Mary ("Mamie") Amis Hooper (1843-1943); her mother's three sisters, Elizabeth ("Bettie") Amis (1837-1872), Sallie Amis Nowland (b. 1841), and Julia Amis (1848-1876); the Amis sisters' parents, Thomas Amis (active 1834-1876) and Sarah Greene Davis Amis (d. 1852); and their aunt, Mary Amis Butterworth (active 1855-1880), and uncle, Samuel F. Butterworth (active 1855-1866).

There are several enslaved and free people who have been identified in the collection, including the following:

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The collection includes correspondence, chiefly between Elizabeth Amis Cameron Hooper Blanchard (1873-1956) and her mother Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Hooper (1843-1943), and notes, memoranda, diary entries, clippings, pictures, and breeding and racing records, relating to Elizabeth Blanchard's book, The Life and Times of Sir Archie: The Story of America's Greatest Thoroughbred. There are also genealogical materials on the Amis and Dulany families and copies of Amis and Cameron family wills. Family letters of the Amis, Butterworth, and Blanchard families, include letters to and from the four Amis sisters after the death of their mother Sarah Greene Davis Amis in 1852, while they travelled in Europe and lived with their Butterworth relatives in New York and Morristown, N.J.; letters among the Amises and Butterworths after the latter moved, in 1864, to California, where Samuel Butterworth was managing a mine at Almaden; letters from Thomas Amis, who went to live with relatives in Madison Parish, La., in 1870; and correspondence to and from the Blanchards after their marriage when they travelled to Japan, 1906. Also of note are letters from Sarah Greene Davis Amis while she was living on a plantation near Columbus, Miss., in the 1830s and 1840s, to her grandomother in Warrenton, N.C., that document people enslaved by the Amis and Davis families. Additions to the collection include scattered correspondence of Elizabeth Amis Cameron Hooper Blanchard between 1907 and 1954; the expansive memoir of Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Hooper, which mentions several enslaved or formerly enslaved people connected to the Amis family and describes enslaved life at Moorfield (Northampton County, N.C.), Little River (Lowndes County, Miss.), and Fortune's Fork (Madison Parish, La.), from the perspective of a white woman; miscellaneous other papers and volumes; and photographs chiefly depicting friends and family members and places visited.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Elizabeth Blanchard Correspondence and Related Material, 1694-1954 and undated.

About 600 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Included in this series are correspondence, genealogical material, poems, miscellaneous manuscripts, and other related materials. The correspondence is chiefly between Elizabeth Blanchard and her mother, Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Hooper. Also included are letters from various artists, including Edward Hopper and John Singer Sargent, and friends interested in the arts.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 1.1A Correspondence and Related Material, 1907-1954 (Additions of 1993).

About 200 items.

Arrangement: by content, then chronological.

Acquisitions information: Accessions 93040, 93162

Scattered correspondence of Elizabeth Hooper Blanchard to and from relatives, friends, and business associates, between 1907 and 1954. Included are letters to Blanchard from Edmund Quincy, American painter, written 1932-1953, and from General and Madame R. Hely d'Oissel of France, most of them undated and all written in French. Several letters are among the last Blanchard received from her mother, Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Hooper, who died in 1943.

Folder 124

Correspondence, 1907-1909

Folder 125

Correspondence, 1910-1916

Folder 126

Correspondence, 1917-1919

Folder 127

Correspondence, 1920-1927

Folder 128

Correspondence, 1933-1945

Folder 129

Correspondence, 1946-1954

Folder 130

Edmund Quincy correspondence, 1932-1953

Folder 131

General and Madame R. Hely d'Oissel correspondence, 1915-1939 and undated

Folder 132

Correspondence, undated

Folder 133

Materials relating to art exhibits and auctions, 1916, 1926 and undated

Folder 134

Materials relating to the Blanchards' trip to Europe, 1926

Folder 135

Miscellaneous invitations, 1915, 1937, 1939

Folder 136

Materials relating to the Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association, 1933-1935

Folder 137

Miscellaneous materials

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17 items.

Arrangement: by subject.

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14 items.

This subseries contains research notes and a typed draft of Elizabeth Blanchard's book The Life and Times of Sir Archie: The Story of America's Greatest Thoroughbred. The typed draft of the book comprises volumes 1-7. The remaining volumes primarily contain information on Sir Archie's bloodlines.

Folder 23

Volume 1: "Development of Thoroughbreds and Racing in England and North Carolina Before Sir Archie"

Folder 24

Volume 2: "Virginia and Maryland Before Sir Archie"

Folder 25

Volume 3: "South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut Before Sir Archie"

Folder 26

Volume 4: "Sir Archie and the Amises, Also John Randolph of Roanoke and William R. Johnson--'Napoleon of the Turf'"

Folder 27

Volume 5: "Virginia, New York, and South Carolina"

Folder 28

Volume 6: "New Jersey, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware"

Folder 29

Volume 7: "My Great Day At Newmarket Jockey Club" and various other writings

Folder 30

Volume 1a: "Sir Archie's Get, A-H"

Folder 31

Volume 2a: "Sir Archie's Get, I-P"

Folder 32

Volume 3a: "Sir Archie's Get, R-Z"

Folder 33

Volume 1b: "Sir Archie's Stallion's Get, A-Gohanna"

Folder 34

Volume 2b: "Sir Archie's Stallion's Get, Golden Fleece-Pacific"

Folder 35

Volume 3b: "Sir Archie's Stallion's Get, Paymaster-St. John"

Folder 36

Volume 4b: "Sir Archie's Stallion's Get, Stockholder-Zinganee"

Folder 147

Horse pedigree narratives for Byerly Turk, Flying Childers, and Boston

Acquisitions information: Accession 100737

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2A. Miscellaneous Volumes (Additions of 1993).

5 items.

Acquisitions information: Accessions 93040, 93162

Folder 138

Volume 11: Address book

Folder 139-140

Folder 139

Folder 140

Volume 12: Recipe book and enclosures

Folder 141

Volume 13: Scrapbook

Folder 142

Volume 14: Scrapbook, 1930s

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5 items.

Acquisitions information: Accession 100737

Folder 143

Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Hooper scrapbook, circa 1870s-1880s

Chiefly handwritten recipes; also includes newspaper clippings, reprint of "The Influence of Chemicals in Stimulating the Ripening of Fruits," 1909 by A. E. Vinson.

Folder 144

The Hugenot, publication no. 6, 1933

Folder 145

Julia Amis sketchbook, circa 1861

Includes sketches, pressed leaves, printed line illustrations pasted in.

Folder 146

Gladstone on MacLeod and Macaulay: Two Essays (New York: R. Worthington, 1877)

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2 items.

Acquisitions information: Accession 20230915.1

Folder 148

Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Hooper memoir

The memoir of Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Hooper (1843-1943), the mother of Elizabeth Amis Cameron Blanchard, as detailed to her family friend (and distant relative through marriage) Elizabeth Randol Baker. The memoir is handwritten, and approximately 220 single-sided notebook pages long. the creator of the document numbered the pages, although a few may have been numbered incorrectly toward the end of the sequence. Some pages are torn along the spine side.

The memoirs chronicle the life of Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Hooper. Topics include Amis family history, including emigration as Huguenots from France to Virginia; the story of her birth in Warrenton, N.C., in 1843 to Thomas Amis and Sarah Greene Davis Amis; her family's migration from their plantation Moorfield in Northampton County, N.C., to Lowndes County, Miss., where they established plantations (her father's "Little River"); plantation social life and customs for wealthy white families; descriptions of interactions with enslaved people from the perspective of a white woman; the practice of enslavers naming enslaved newborns; enslaved quarters at Fortune's Fork, including buildings for childcare and storage of food provisions and clothing alotments; moving with her sisters to New York in 1851 to live with their aunt and uncle, Mary Amis Butterworth and Samuel Butterworth, after her mother's death; her travels to Europe, including as a teenager for schooling in Paris, Dresden, and Rome, and later as a young adult; Mary's reflections on living in Paris during the Second French Empire of Napoleon III, while the Civil War was beginning in the United States; returning to the United States four days after the Battle of Gettysburg to tend to a wounded relative; moving to New Almaden, Calif., with her aunt and uncle Butterworth; a violent conflict with Apache people in Arizona; her marriage to Joseph Hooper (1840-1873); being widowed with two young daughters (Ethel and Elizabeth ("Bee")); living a few years in Europe but ultimately settling in the Bay Area of California (St. Helena and San Rafael).

Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Hooper mentions her husband briefly and only once in the entire text. Much of the remaining document seems to chronicle her subsequent life in California and her travels elsewhere, as well as those of various family and friends. The death of Mary's daughter Ethel in 1912 prompted her to relocate from California to New York to be closer to her other daughter Elizabeth ("Bee"), and she ultimately settled in Virginia until the end of her life. The text is replete with proper names, family histories and legacies, geographies, anecdotes, and observations of social customs and norms, although dates are infrequently mentioned.

The memoirs mention many individuals with whom Mary interacted briefly or continuously over many years, including several people who were enslaved by the Amis family or later employed by them:

  • Sam Dagger was an enslaved overseer at Little River plantation in Lowndes County, Miss. He was married to Queenie.
  • Sophia Amis ("Mammy") was a caretaker to Mary's mother Sarah Greene Davis Amis. At age 9 Sophia was given as a wedding present to Sarah Greene Davis Amis by her father-in-law John D. Amis (ca. 1785-ca. 1841) of Jackson, Northampton County, N.C. When Sarah Greene Davis Amis died, Sophia was devised to Elizabeth ("Bettie") Amis, who emancipated her several years later. Sophia's family apparently was in Kentucky at this time, but she elected to stay with the Amis sisters and travelled with them to New York, Europe, and California. She later married a steward on a ship that sailed between San Francisco and China.
  • Lettie was an enslaved maid of Sarah Green Davis Amis from before her marriage to Thomas Amis. Lettie had a daughter, Jane.
  • "Uncle William," an enslaved valet and then butler at Fortune's Fork plantation that belonged to Junius Amis, and to Junius's widow Henrietta Amis. William self-emancipated while on a trip to Boston and became a coachmen. He later returned to work for the family as a coachman in California.

Other people mentioned include an unidentified Indigenous person who came for a cup of salt every day to the Amis house in Columbus, Miss.; an enslaved person at Moorfield plantation in North Carolina who stood guard at the crossroads and invited travellers to dinner at the Amis's home; Jose, a child probably of Mexican descent, who was raised by the Amis family in California; "John," who was Chinese and employed as a cook by Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Butterworth, and his wife Sue; and Gung and Lon who were Chinese and employed as gardeners at the San Rafael place of Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Butterworth.

Digital Folder DF-3367/1

Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Hooper memoir (transcription)

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About 1,500 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Chiefly correspondence between various members of the Amis family.

NOTE: in December 2023, archivists reviewed folders 40-46 to locate information about enslaved people who are documented in this collection.

Folder 40

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1836-1839

Records of enslavement:

  • 4 December 1836: letter from Sarah Greene Davis Amis, Knoxville, to Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Warrenton, mentioning Lethe and Sophia, who were enslaved caretakers for the Amis family, and describing the journey through the mountains to Columbus, Miss.
  • 22 December 1836: letter from Sarah Greene Davis Amis, Choctaw, to Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Warrenton, mentioning Lethe and Sophia, who were enslaved caretakers for the Amis family, and 2 unidentified enslaved sawyers, and describing the high wages in the local economy. Amis also reported that of the more than 300 people enslaved by the family who had moved to the area, 20 had died: 15 children had died of whooping cough, 1 woman had died during childbirth, and the others died of colds from living in the open air.
  • 19 February 1837: letter from Sarah Greene Davis Amis, Choctaw, to Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Warrenton, lamenting her father's emotional neglect; mentioning Lethe, an enslaved caretaker for Amis, and the enslaved people who were expected to arrive from North Carolina; high prices for the trafficking through hiring out of enslaved labor, skills, and knowledge; and the rumor that her father had trafficked Lethe through sale.
  • 24 August 1837: letter from Sarah Greene Davis Amis, Choctaw, to Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Warrenton, describing a postpartum infection in her breast, and mentioning the death of 2 enslaved people and that Lethe, who was an enslaved caretaker for Amis and whose enslaved mother was in Warrenton, was doing well.
  • 17 December 1838: letter from Sarah Greene Davis Amis, Columbus, Miss., to Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Warrenton, mentioning Frances, an enslaved nurse who cared for Sarah's daughter Betty, and who was pregnant with her own child. Amis also sent to family in Warrenton, including enslaved people.
  • 22 December 1839: letter from Sarah Greene Davis Amis, Prairies, to Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Warrenton, mentioning "Mammy" (Sophia?), who was a nurse for Betty, and that Lethe, an enslaved caretaker for Amis, was pregnant with her own child. Sarah requested that news of Lethe be shared with her "Mammy" through "Uncle Austin." She also reported that none of the enslaved people had died, that an enslaved woman gave birth the previous night, and that there had been 11 enslaved children born that year, 9 of them girls.
Folder 41

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1840-1847

Records of enslavement:

  • 4 January 1840: letter from Sarah Greene Davis Amis, Prairies, to Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Warrenton, reporting that Lethe, an enslaved caretaker for Amis, had given birth to a baby girl on 24 December 1839. Amis commented on the light skin color of the infant and asked that the news of the birth be passed to Lethe's "Mammy," who may have been Lotty.
  • 17 April 1841: letter from Sarah Greene Davis Amis, Columbus, Miss., to Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Warrenton, complaining that Lethe, an enslaved caretaker for Amis, was less valuable to her because she must be with her own baby at night. Sarah also reported that Sophia was the caretaker for Betty.
  • 2 August 1840: letter from Sarah Greene Davis Amis, Columbus, Miss., to Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Warrenton, mentioning Francis, an enslaved person, had been sick with bilious fever. Sarah also reported that Francis's husband had burnt his neck badly, and that Lethe, an enslaved caretaker for Amis, and her now 7 month old infant Sally were doing well.
  • 9 November 1841: letter from Sarah Greene Davis Amis, Walnut Bayou, Madison Parish, La., to Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Warrenton, commenting on the response of the people enslaved by "the old man" to her arrival.
  • 23 January 1845: letter from Sarah Greene Davis Amis, Columbus, Miss., to Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Warrenton, describing the birth of Eliza Henry, the child of Lethe, an enslaved caretaker for Amis. Amis also mentioned Sophia, an enslaved caretaker for the Amis children, and an unidentified woman who did the cooking and washing.
  • 27 January 1846: letter from Sarah Greene Davis Amis, Columbus, Miss., to Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Warrenton, mentioning the marriage of Lethe, an enslaved caretaker for Amis. Lethe was married the Saturday before Christmas (20 December 1845) to another enslaved person in a large wedding. Amis reported that Sophia minded the baby and Mary was tended by Lucy, an enslaved maid.
  • 17 March 1847: letter from Sarah Greene Davis Amis, Columbus, Miss., to Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Warrenton, mentioning that Lethe, an enslaved caretaker for Amis, was sick and may not get well, and Amis's desire to have the child sent away the first good opportunity.
Folder 42

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1851-1852

Records of enslavement:

  • 26 June 1851: letter from Sarah Greene Davis Amis to Bettie Amis, Aberdeen, Miss., mentioning the dresses brought back by Sophia, an enslaved caretaker for the Amis children.
  • 1 July 1851: letter from Sally Amis and Sarah Greene Davis Amis, Columbus, Miss., to Bettie Amis, Aberdeen, Miss., mentioning Sophia, an enslaved caretaker for the Amis children.
Folder 43

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1855-1856

Folder 44

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1857

Records of enslavement:

  • 31 August 1857: letter from Thomas Christian, Columbus, Miss., to Bettie Amis, concerning settlement of her mother's estate and his fear of getting into trouble with the law on account of Sophia [Amis], who had been the enslaved caretaker for the Amis children and whom Bettie had inherited from her mother. Sophia appears to have had some agency in the hiring out of her own labor, skills, and knowledge.
Folder 45

Amis family correspondence and related material, January-June 1858

Records of enslavement:

  • 7 January 1858: letter from Sophia [Amis], Columbus, Miss., to Sallie Amis, regarding the possibility of Sophia, who had been an enslaved caretaker for the Amis childrent, relocating to North Carolina, her experience of being trafficked through the hiring out of her labor, skills, and knowledge, and the news from Columbus, Miss.
  • 16 March 1858: letter from Thomas Christian, Columbus, Miss., to Bettie Amis, regarding Sophia [Amis], the enslaved caretaker for the Amis children who had been inherited by Bettie, and the possibility of manumitting her and sending her to live in New York with the Amis sisters.
  • 5 June 1858: letter from Thomas Christian, Columbus, Miss., to Bettie Amis, regarding the possibility of manumitting Sophia [Amis], the enslaved caretaker for the Amis children who had been inherited by Bettie, and sending her to live in New York with the Amis sisters..
Folder 46

Amis family correspondence and related material, July-December 1858

Records of enslavement:

  • 5 July 1858: letter from Bettie Amis to Thomas Amis, mentioning travel to Sophia, who had been the enslaved caretaker for the Amis children, to have dresses made.
  • 18 July [1858?]: letter from Thomas Amis, Branchville, to Bettie Amis, mentioning an unidentified woman enslaved by Mr. Joiner, who had named her infant child Bettie Amis.
  • 10 December 1858: letter from Mary Amis Butterworth, New York, to Bettie Amis, Dresden, Germany, reporting that Sophia [Amis], who had been manumitted by Bettie Amis and was living in New York with the Butterworths, was doing well.
  • [December 1858?]: letter from Mary Amis Butterworth to "children," mentioning Sophia [Amis], who had been manumitted by Bettie Amis and was living in New York with the Butterworths.
Folder 47

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1859

Folder 48

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1860-1861

Folder 49

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1862

Folder 50

Amis family correspondence and related material, January-October 1863

Folder 51

Amis family correspondence and related material, November-December 1863

Folder 52

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1864

Folder 53

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1865

Folder 54

Amis family correspondence and related material, January-April 1866

Folder 55

Amis family correspondence and related material, May-December 1866

Folder 56

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1867

Folder 57

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1868

Folder 58

Amis family correspondence and related material, January-June 1869

Folder 59

Amis family correspondence and related material, July-December 1869

Folder 60

Amis family correspondence and related material, January-July 1870

Folder 61

Amis family correspondence and related material, August-December 1870

Folder 62

Amis family correspondence and related material, January-June 1871

Folder 63

Amis family correspondence and related material, July-December 1871

Folder 64

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1872

Folder 65

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1873

Folder 66

Amis family correspondence and related material, January-July 1874

Folder 67

Amis family correspondence and related material, August-December 1874

Folder 68

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1875-1876

Folder 69

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1877-1892

Folder 70

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1893-1897

Folder 71

Amis family correspondence and related material, January-July 1898

Folder 72

Amis family correspondence and related material, August-December 1898

Folder 73

Amis family correspondence and related material, January-March 1899

Folder 74

Amis family correspondence and related material, April-June 1899

Folder 75

Amis family correspondence and related material, July-August 1899

Folder 76

Amis family correspondence and related material, September-October 1899

Folder 77

Amis family correspondence and related material, November-December 1899

Folder 78

Amis family correspondence and related material, January-March 1900

Folder 79

Amis family correspondence and related material, April-May 1900

Folder 80

Amis family correspondence and related material, June-July 1900

Folder 81

Amis family correspondence and related material, August-December 1900

Folder 82

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1901-1902

Folder 83

Amis family correspondence and related material, January-July 1903

Folder 84

Amis family correspondence and related material, August-December 1903

Folder 85

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1904

Folder 86

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1905

Folder 87

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1906

Folder 88

Amis family correspondence and related material, January-March 1907

Folder 89

Amis family correspondence and related material, April-June 1907

Folder 90

Amis family correspondence and related material, July-September 1907

Folder 91

Amis family correspondence and related material, October-December 1907

Folder 92

Amis family correspondence and related material, January-March 1908

Folder 93

Amis family correspondence and related material, April-June 1908

Folder 94

Amis family correspondence and related material, July-December 1908

Folder 95

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1909

Folder 96

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1910-1921

Folder 97

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1922-1923

Folder 98

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1924-1925

Folder 99

Amis family correspondence and related material, January-May 1926

Folder 100

Amis family correspondence and related material, June-August 1926

Folder 101

Amis family correspondence and related material, September-December 1926

Folder 102

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1927-1929

Folder 103

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1930-1931

Folder 104

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1932-1941

Folder 105

Amis family correspondence and related material, 1942-1943

Folder 106

Letters from Bettie Amis, undated 1860s-1870s

Folder 107

Letters from Sallie Amis Nowland, undated 1860s-1870s

Folder 108

Letters from Julia Amis, undated 1860s-1870s

Folder 109

Letters from Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Hooper, undated 1860s-1870s

Folder 110

Letters from Thomas Amis, undated 1860s-1870s

Folder 111

Letters from Aunt Mary Amis Butterworth, undated 1850s-1860s

Folder 112

Letters between Elizabeth ("Bee") Blanchard and her husband John ("Jack")

Folder 113

Letters from Mrs. John Henry (Emily?) Hammond, undated

Folder 114

Letters from Josephine Hopper, undated

Folder 115

Letters from Dodge MacKnight and Louise MacKnight, undated

Letters from Louise are in French.

Folder 116

Miscellaneous undated correspondence, chiefly 1860s and 1870s

Folder 117

Miscellaneous undated correspondence

Folder 118

Mrs. Hooper's letters and verses, undated

Folder 119

Miscellaneous papers, undated

Folder 120

Miscellaneous papers, undated

Folder 121

Miscellaneous papers, undated

Folder 122

Newspaper clippings

Folder 123

Bettie Amis commonplace book, beginning 23 November 1867

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3367/1

Mary Amis and Thomas Amis passports, 1858, 1860

Mary Amis, issued by the State Department, 7 December 1858

Thomas Amis, issued by the United States Legation to France, 9 June 1860; in French

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 4A. Pictures (Additions of 1993).

About 700 items.

The 26 image folders are filed in three image boxes.

Arrangement: by subject.

Acquisitions information: Accessions 93040, 93162

Image Folder PF-3367/1

Elizabeth Blanchard, some with Ethel Hooper

Image Folder PF-3367/2-3

PF-3367/2

PF-3367/3

Ethel Hooper, Mary Emily ("Mamie") Amis Hooper, Bettie and Sallie Amis, and members of the Lyman and Nowland families

Image Folder PF-3367/4

Various family members and friends, all of whom are identified on the versos of their photographs

Image Folder PF-3367/5

Various family members and friends, partially identified on the versos of their photographs

Image Folder PF-3367/6-9

PF-3367/6

PF-3367/7

PF-3367/8

PF-3367/9

Various unidentified family members and friends

Image Folder PF-3367/10

Horses, including some photgraphs used to illustrate The Life and Times of Sir Archie: the Story of America's Greatest Thoroughbred

Image Folder PF-3367/11

Unbound photograph album

Contains images of Chapel Hill, N.C., Washington, D.C., and Virginia.

Image Folder PF-3367/12

Photographs from a trip to China and Russia, circa 1906

Image Folder PF-3367/13

Picture postcards from a trip to Europe, 1926

Image Folder PF-3367/14-16

PF-3367/14

PF-3367/15

PF-3367/16

Photographs and a few postcards from a trip to Japan, 1906

Image Folder PF-3367/17

Photographs of Saint Helena, Calif., mounted in a small album and a few loose photographs, 1890s-1940s

Image Folder PF-3367/18

"Wendanbrook," 1935

Image Folder PF-3367/19

Unidentified places

Image Folder PF-3367/20

Unbound album of photographs of unidentfied places

Image Folder PF-3367/21-26

PF-3367/21

PF-3367/22

PF-3367/23

PF-3367/24

PF-3367/25

PF-3367/26

Photograph album and loose photographs that were enclosed in album

Some photographs of Fiji, Japan, Samoa, and Tahiti. Most places unidentified. Some items are cyanotypes.

Special Format Image SF-P-3367/1-2

SF-P-3367/1

SF-P-3367/2

Oval miniature portraits of Mary Emily Amis and Julia Amis

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