Title: McCormick Family Photographs and Graphic Materials
Inclusive Dates: circa 1842-1966

Creator:

• McCormick Family

Call Number: M2002-174

Quantity: 14.0 cubic feet (12 flat boxes, 6 record center cartons, 8 archives boxes, 5 card boxes, 1 volume, and 1 wooden box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Photographs and other graphic materials relating to the family of Cyrus Hall McCormick. Included are cartes-de-visite, lithographs, informal photographs, formal studio photographs, tintypes, painted porcelain, daguerreotypes, and photo albums featuring the children and grandchildren of Cyrus Hall McCormick; the Fowler, Spice, and Merrick families; the Robert McCormick family; and friends of the McCormicks. One item of particular note is the 1923 death mask of Nettie Fowler McCormick.

Note:

Forms part of the McCormick Collection.

There is a restriction on access to this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2002174

This collection has been arranged into two series: McCormick Family Portraits, and McCormick Family Friends and Relatives.

Access Restrictions

The death mask of Nettie Fowler McCormick is closed to research due to its fragile condition.

Acquisition Information

Presented by International Truck and Engine Corporation, Warrenville, Illinois. Accession Number: M2002-174

M2002-174	Series: McCormick Family Portraits
Box   1	Cyrus and Nettie McCormick, large and oversize
Box   2	Cyrus McCormick, Nettie McCormick, and miscellaneous family, oversize
Box   3	Cyrus H. McCormick, lithographs and oversize photos Note: Includes “Men of Progress” photos.
Box   4-5	Cyrus H. McCormick Sr.
	Nettie Fowler McCormick cartes-de-visite (small photographs)
	Glass slides
Box   6 Folder   1	Borg
Box   6 Folder   2	Charles Deering
Box   6 Folder   3	James Deering
Box   6 Folder   4	William Deering
Box   6 Folder   5	O.S. Ellithorpe
Box   6 Folder   6-7	M.L. Goss
Box   6 Folder   8	W.H. Jones
Box   6 Folder   9-10	B.A. Kennedy
Box   6 Folder   11	S.V. Kennedy
Box   6 Folder   12	Latin
Box   6 Folder   13	Alex Legge
Box   6 Folder   14	Harvester Works engraving, 1860
Box   6 Folder   15	Charles H. McCormick
Box   6 Folder   16	Harold McCormick
Box   6 Folder   17	J.E. Merrion
Box   6 Folder   18	H.F. Perkins
Box   6 Folder   19	J.W. Webster
Box   6 Folder   20	Wood
Box   6 Folder   21	Harvester scene, 1857
Box   6 Folder   22	Harvester Works, 1858
Box   6 Folder   23	Harvester Works, 1863
Box   6 Folder   24	Unidentified man
Box   6 Folder   25	Deering, 1875
Box   6 Folder   26	Deering Works, 1889
Box   6 Folder   27	Deering
	Daguerreotypes
Box   6 Folder   28	Henry McCormick
Box   6 Folder   29	Stephen McCormick
Box   6 Folder   30	Elizabeth McCormick Catlett
Box   6 Folder   31	Mary McCormick
Box   6 Folder   32	Fredricksburg?, circa 1853
Box   6 Folder   33	Unidentified woman
Box   6 Folder   34	Unidentified man and woman
	Photo album, dismantled
Box   6 Folder   35	Bust of Nettie Fowler McCormick
Box   6 Folder   36	Nettie Fowler McCormick and Robert McCormick
Box   6 Folder   37	Mary Virginia McCormick and Alica McCormick
Box   6 Folder   38	Mary Virginia McCormick as a little girl
Box   6 Folder   39	Anita McCormick as a young woman
Box   6 Folder   40	Mrs. Bentley?
Box   6 Folder   41	Charles H. McCormick from the landscape picture, or made at the same time
Box   6 Folder   42	Harold McCormick as child, wearing sash and hat
Box   6 Folder   43	Anita McCormick Blaine
Box   6 Folder   44	Carrie Herrick
Box   6 Folder   45-48	Unidentified females
Box   6 Folder   49	The Brighton Cats, commercial photo
Box   6 Folder   50	Flowers and poem, commercial photo
Box   6 Folder   51	Town of Evesham, commercial photo
Box   6 Folder   52	Woman Physical Description: Tintype
Box   6 Folder   53	J.D. Davidson
	Tintypes
Box   6 Folder   54	Mary Virginia McCormick (right) and girl
Box   6 Folder   55	Group of women
Box   6 Folder   56-57	Mary Virginia McCormick and girl
Box   6 Folder   58-60	Unidentified girls
Box   6 Folder   61	Baby
Box   6 Folder   62	Mary Caroline Adams and baby
	E.G.M. Carrington photo album
Box   6 Folder   63	Unidentified man
Box   6 Folder   64-65	Nettie Fowler McCormick
Box   6 Folder   66	Young girl
Box   6 Folder   67	Man
Box   6 Folder   68	Stanley McCormick
Box   6 Folder   69	Harold McCormick
Box   6 Folder   70	Harold McCormick as a child in hat and sash
Box   6 Folder   71	Anita McCormick
Box   6 Folder   72	Stanley McCormick?
Box   6 Folder   73	Mary McCormick and Anita McCormick
Box   6 Folder   74-75	Unidentified women
Box   6 Folder   76	Jane (Mrs. Eldridge G.) Merick
Box   6 Folder   77	Edward John Fowler
Box   6 Folder   78	Unidentified man
Box   6 Folder   79	Daisie Day
Box   6 Folder   80	Robert H. McCormick
Box   6 Folder   81-83	Unidentified portraits
Box   6 Folder   84	Dr. Fred Merrick
Box   6 Folder   85-95	Unidentified portraits
Box   6 Folder   96	Ship
	Photo album, dismantled
Box   6 Folder   97	Mary Ann Hall (Mrs. Robert) McCormick
Box   6 Folder   98	William Sanderson McCormick
Box   6 Folder   99	Cyrus H. McCormick as a child
Box   6 Folder   100	Cyrus H. McCormick about 16
Box   6 Folder   101	William Sanduson McCormick
Box   6 Folder   102	Unidentified woman
Box   6 Folder   103	Robert McCormick Adams Sr.
Box   6 Folder   104	Sarah Ella Adams
Box   6 Folder   105	Adams, man
Box   6 Folder   106	Mary Adams
Box   6 Folder   107	Henrietta Hamilton McCormick
Box   6 Folder   108	Elizabeth Day McCormick?
Box   6 Folder   109	Robert Hall McCormick
Box   6 Folder   110	Henrietta Laura McCormick?
Box   6 Folder   111	Leander Hamilton McCormick?
Box   6 Folder   112	James Hall Shields
Box   6 Folder   113	Mary Caroline McCormick Shields
Box   6 Folder   114	James Shields, James Hall Shields, son of Caroline McCormick Shields
Box   6 Folder   115	Sarah Amanda Shields?
Box   6 Folder   116	Jane (Mrs. Eldridge G.) Merick
Box   6 Folder   117	Emma Merick
Box   6 Folder   118	Female child, 8-10?
Box   6 Folder   119	Jennie Merick Chaffee
Box   6 Folder   120	Oliver Chaffee?, baby
Box   6 Folder   121	William Mackey
Box   6 Folder   122	Clossief? Note: Signed on front.
Box   6 Folder   123	J.D. Davidson
Box   6 Folder   124	Hugh Adams
Box   6 Folder   125	Amanda Joanna McCormick Adams (Hugh?), Mrs. Hugh Adams?
Box   6 Folder   126	J. Lawrence Smith
Box   6 Folder   127	J.D. Davidson
Box   6 Folder   128	Cabanel?
Box   6 Folder   129	Man
Box   6 Folder   130	Mr. and Mrs. Michel Chevalier
Box   6 Folder   131	Woman with baby on lap
Box   6 Folder   132	E.D. Palmer
Box   6 Folder   133	E.Q. Merick
Box   6 Folder   134	Jennie Chaffee with two babies, standing, Alice and Melzar?
Box   6 Folder   135	Jeannie Merick Chaffee, Jeannie Carolyn Merick Note: Later Mrs. Oliver N. Chaffee.
Box   6 Folder   136	Oliver Newberry Chaffee
Box   6 Folder   137	Alice (left) and Mary Chaffee
Box   6 Folder   138	Walter (far left), Wally (center), and Melzar
Box   7 Folder   1	Mary Ann Grigsby McCormick
Box   7 Folder   2	Emma McCormick Smith
Box   7 Folder   3-6	Unidentified
Box   7 Folder   7	R. Hall McCormick
Box   7 Folder   8	Daisie Day
Box   7 Folder   9	James H. Shields
Box   7 Folder   10	Amanda Shields?
Box   7 Folder   11	James H. Shields
Box   7 Folder   12	Chapman?
Box   7 Folder   13	John H. Chapman as a child?
Box   7 Folder   14	Mary A. Chapman
Box   7 Folder   15	Unidentified infant
Box   7 Folder   16	Reverend John Hall, D.D.
Box   7 Folder   17-18	Unidentified
Box   7 Folder   19	Grand Duke Alexis
Box   7 Folder   20	Unidentified man
Box   7 Folder   21-22	Reverend Francis Landey Patton
Box   7 Folder   23-24	Unidentified
Box   7 Folder   25	Charles S. Carrington?
Box   7 Folder   26	Unidentified man
Box   7 Folder   27	General Robert D. Lilley
Box   7 Folder   28-30	Unidentified
Box   7 Folder   31	Princess Elizabeth of Roumania
Box   7 Folder   32	Rose Cecilia Patton
Box   7 Folder   33	Queen Victoria
Box   7 Folder   34	Father Hyacinthe
Box   7 Folder   35	Unidentified man
Box   8	Nettie Fowler McCormick
Box   9	Nettie McCormick and Anita McCormick Blaine series
Box   10	Nettie Fowler and Fowler McCormick scrapbooks
Box   11	Nettie Fowler McCormick
	Daguerreotypes, tintypes, glass portraits and negatives of Nettie, extended family, friends
Box   12 Folder   1	Cyrus McCormick, glass oval portrait
Box   12 Folder   2	Stanley McCormick, glass oval portrait
Box   12 Folder   3	Mary Virginia McCormick, Anita McCormick with group of people under trees
Box   12 Folder   4	Cyrus, Mary Virginia, Anita McCormick
Box   12 Folder   5	Mary Virginia, Cyrus, Anita McCormick Physical Description: Albumen print
Box   12 Folder   6	Unidentified man with white hair
Box   12 Folder   7	Nettie Fowler? with Maria D. Merick and possibly Isaac L. Lyon Physical Description: Daguerreotype
Box   12 Folder   8	Emma Hammond
Box   12 Folder   9	Unidentified man with dark hair Physical Description: Tintype
Box   12 Folder   10	Nettie Fowler McCormick with son Robert Physical Description: Glass negative
Box   12 Folder   11	Nettie Fowler McCormick with baby in her arms, probably Anita Physical Description: Tintype
Box   12 Folder   12	Nettie Fowler McCormick with 4 children and unidentified woman Physical Description: Tintype
Box   12 Folder   13	Cyrus and Mary Virginia McCormick Physical Description: Tintype
Box   12 Folder   14	Nettie Fowler McCormick, Ermina Gertrude Merick, Caroline Maria Fowler Physical Description: Daguerreotype  Note: Highly deteriorated.
Box   12 Folder   15	Nettie Fowler McCormick as a bride, highly deteriorated Note: Highly deteriorated.
Box   12 Folder   16	Judith Pratt and Fredrick Augustus Pratt Physical Description: Daguerreotype  Note: Highly deteriorated.
Box   12 Folder   17	Pass with photograph of Cyrus McCormick, for U.S. International Exhibition, Philadelphia
Box   12 Folder   18	Cyrus McCormick? Physical Description: Lantern slide, color
Box   12 Folder   19	Photo card, Cyrus McCormick?
Box   12 Folder   20	William S. McCormick Physical Description: Albumen print
Box   12 Folder   21	Eldridge G. Merick, Jane C. (Fowler) Merick, Ermina G. Merick, Melzar Fowler Merick, January (Jeannie or Jennie) Caroline (Carolyn?) Merick from top left to right Physical Description: 6 daguerreotypes in case
Box   12 Folder   22	Souvenir from the grave of Lieutenant General T.J. “Stonewall” Jackson
Box   13-14	Cyrus McCormick Jr., large
Box   15	Cyrus McCormick Jr. and family
Box   16	Harold F. McCormick
Box   17	Harold McCormick, Edith McCormick, and children at Walnut Grove
Box   18	Anita McCormick Blaine, large
Box   19	Harold and family, Ganna Walska, Harold properties
Box   20-21	Anita McCormick Blaine
Box   22-23	Stanley and Katharine Dexter McCormick
Box   24	Mary Virginia McCormick
Box   25	Nettie Fowler McCormick Biographical Association portraits of family and friends
	Series: McCormick Family Friends and Relatives Note: Mostly formal portraits of or pertaining to McCormick relatives, friends, and acquaintances found among Nettie Fowler McCormick's papers and personal belongings.	⇧
Box   26 Folder   1-84	Relatives of Cyrus Hall McCormick: Adams, Amanda-Tracey
	Relatives of Nettie Fowler McCormick and related photos
Box   26 Folder   85-143	Allen - Lloyd-Smith
Box   27 Folder   1-50	Lloyd-Smith - Wood
	Friends, acquaintances and other individuals, exclusive of relatives
Box   27 Folder   51-119	Adams, Maggie - Clemens, Harold S.
Box   28 Folder   1-149	Colie - Luce, Henry R., Nettie Fowler McCormick Physical Description: Negatives, copy negatives (mainly of Nettie Fowler : McCormick )
Box   29 Folder   1-158	Luce et al. - Winant - unidentified Physical Description: Negatives
Box   30 Folder   1-7	Wood - Zwemer
Box   30 Folder   8	Mrs. Emmons Blaine
	Photographs found among Nettie Fowler McCormick's personal belongings
Box   30 Folder   9	Boughton Place, Kent
Box   30 Folder   10	Brownville, New York
Box   30 Folder   11	California Junior Republic
Box   30 Folder   12	Carrington, Ermina G.M.
Box   30 Folder   13	Cazenovia, New York
Box   30 Folder   14	Central Kindergarten, Normal College, Seoul, Korea
Box   30 Folder   15	Chaffee, Jennie Merick
Box   30 Folder   16	Chrysanthemums
Box   30 Folder   17	Old stone church, Depauville, New York
Box   30 Folder   18	Clarissa Fowler's home
Box   30 Folder   19	Chaumont River, railroad drawbridge
Box   30 Folder   20	Cemetery, Clayton, New York
Box   30 Folder   21	Fowler monuments at Clayton cemetery
Box   30 Folder   22	Anson Fowler and E.G. Merick home in Clayton, New York
Box   30 Folder   23-24	Clayton Lodge
Box   30 Folder   25-26	Methodist Episcopal church in Clayton, New York
Box   30 Folder   27	Pioneer steamboat Ontario, Clayton, New York
Box   30 Folder   28	Clayton postcards
Box   30 Folder   29-33	Depauville, New York views
Box   30 Folder   34	Falley Seminary
Box   30 Folder   35	Fowler coat of arms
Box   30 Folder   36	Fowler, Delia, Milo, and Gertrude
Box   30 Folder   37	Fowler, Maria Esselstyn
Box   30 Folder   38	Fowler, Richard Esselstyn
Box   30 Folder   39	Fowler, Nettie group photo
Box   30 Folder   40-42	Fowler, John Nash and family
Box   30 Folder   43	Maria and Eldridge M. Fowler, Nettie Fowler?
Box   30 Folder   44	French, Dr. Calvin H.
Box   30 Folder   45	Gardens
Box   30 Folder   46	Genesee Wesleyan Seminary
Box   30 Folder   47	Gray, Dr. Charles Oliver
Box   30 Folder   48	Hastings College, Hastings, Iowa
Box   30 Folder   49	Haynes, Dr. Landon Carter
Box   30 Folder   50	Historical pageant, Richmond, Virginia
Box   30 Folder   51	“Hive of the Averys”
Box   30 Folder   52	Major Richard Esseltyn home
Box   30 Folder   53-55	Homes and landscape views, probably California
Box   30 Folder   56	Lake Forest home, winter
Box   30 Folder   57-58	Unidentified houses
Box   30 Folder   59	Huron College, Huron, South Dakota
Box   30 Folder   60	International Harvester farm implement in field
Box   30 Folder   61	Langley Park, Beckenham, Kent
Box   30 Folder   62	Lake Forest Presbyterian Church
Box   30 Folder   63	Lees Junior College, Jackson, Kentucky, 1939
Box   30 Folder   64	Lyon, Maria D.
Box   30 Folder   65	Manchester, Vermont
Box   30 Folder   66	Mausoleum proposed by Robert C. Fisher Company, 1892
Box   30 Folder   67	Nettie Fowler McCormick and children Physical Description: Tintypes
Box   30 Folder   68	Harriet McCormick, Anita McCormick Blaine, and their sons
Box   30 Folder   69	McCormick coat of arms
Box   30 Folder   70-72	Cyrus H. McCormick
Box   30 Folder   73	Virginia Inventors historic sign
Box   30 Folder   74	Harold and Stanley McCormick
Box   30 Folder   75	Nettie McCormick sketch by Baroness Frederick
Box   30 Folder   76-78	Nettie McCormick
Box   30 Folder   79	Nettie McCormick at Paris Exposition
Box   30 Folder   80	Nettie McCormick with Mary Chapman, Amanda Shields and Jeannie Merick Chaffee
Box   30 Folder   81	Nettie McCormick at Urraca Ranch
Box   30 Folder   82	McCormick building at Paris Exposition
Box   30 Folder   83	McCormick historical exhibit, 1907
Box   30 Folder   84-85	Mary Ann Hall and Robert McCormick
Box   30 Folder   86-87	McCormick, S.C.
Box   30 Folder   88	Cottage at Montecido
Box   31 Folder   1	Mary Virginia McCormick and her residences
Box   31 Folder   2	McCosh, Dr. James
Box   31 Folder   3	Merick, Eldridge G.
Box   31 Folder   4	Merick, Ermina G.
Box   31 Folder   5	Merick, Jane Fowler (Mrs. Eldridge G.)
Box   31 Folder   6	Merick, Dr. Fred
Box   31 Folder   7	Mount Carmel Presbyterian Church, Steele's Tavern, Virginia, slide
Box   31 Folder   8	Lake St. Regis camp
Box   31 Folder   9-10	New Providence Church, Rockbridge Company, Virginia
Box   31 Folder   11	Old Providence Church Augusta Company, Virginia
Box   31 Folder   12	Opera singers
Box   31 Folder   13	Pollack, Laura
Box   31 Folder   14	Postcard album
Box   31 Folder   15	Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work
Box   31 Folder   16-18	Richfield Springs, New York
Box   31 Folder   19	Dr. Riefsrujder? missionary to Japan
Box   31 Folder   20	Scenes, semi-tropical climate
Box   31 Folder   21	Speer, Dr. Robert E.
Box   31 Folder   22	Spicer, Charlotte Westcott
Box   31 Folder   23	Spicer genealogy
Box   31 Folder   24	Spicer, Henry H.
Box   31 Folder   25	Spicer, Silas Fish
Box   31 Folder   26	Tilden, S.J.
Box   31 Folder   27	Tucker, Delva Fowler
Box   31 Folder   28	Unadilla? Forks, New York cemetary
Box   31 Folder   29	Van Camp, Mercy (Spicer)
Box   31 Folder   30	Van Rensselaer Manor, home of Clifford L. Miller, New York
Box   31 Folder   31	Virginia Settlement playground, Huntsville, Alabama, 1910
Box   31 Folder   32	Walton House
Box   31 Folder   33	Watkins Glen, New York Glen Springs
Box   31 Folder   34	Women's Board of Foreign Missions of the North-West
Box   31 Folder   35	Young man in uniform
Box   31 Folder   36	Prints from daguerreotypes belonging to Cyrus McCormick
Box   31 Folder   37	Unidentified landscapes
Box   31 Folder   38-47	Unidentified groups
Volume   1	Harriet H. McCormick scrapbook
Wooden Box   1	Plaster death mask of Nettie Fowler McCormick, 1923 Access Restrictions: This item is closed to research. See the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.