French Family Papers, 1678-2000

Container Title
Series: Audiovisual Materials
Audio recordings: Trio: Marjorie Patek, Jean Owen, Karen Patek
Audio   2037A/1
Side   [A]
1. Dona Nobis Pacem, 2. Children's Prayer, 3. A Poor and Lonely Stranger, 1951 Christmas
Physical Description: Disc (8 inches; 78 rpm) 
Audio   2037A/1
Side   [B]
1. Lift Thine Eyes, 2. Summer Is i-comin In
Audio   2037A/2
Side   [A]
1. Lift Thine Eyes, 2. Dona Nobis Pacem, 1951 Christmas
Physical Description: Disc (8 inches; 78 rpm) 
Audio   2037A/2
Side   [B]
1. Summer Is i-comin In, 2. Children's Prayer, 3. A Poor and Lonely Stranger
Audio   2037A/3
Side   [A and B]
"Ceremony of Carols" excerpts / Britten, 1954 December
Physical Description: Disc (10 inches; 33 rpm) 
PH 7142
Photographs
Physical Description: 7 folders of prints, 8 negatives, 2 photograph albums, 1 daguerreotype, 63 glass negatives, and 2 printing plates 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs of many members of the extended French family, including snapshots taken at Margaret ("Peg") Owen's wedding and at family Christmas gatherings at the home of Ethel Quarles French; Ethel Quarles' California trip photo album (1906), and grand tour album (1911); photos taken aboard the SS Santa Paula, where Cyril Owen worked as a ship pianist (1937); family snapshot albums of images taken during Eunice French Owen's illness and at the Louis Osborne French property in Republic, Michigan; and a wedding portrait album of Eunice French and Cyril Owen, November 26, 1938. Also includes a photo album with portraits of members of the Thiers, Capron, Marsh and other families, and a daguerreotype of David B. Thiers, the husband of Louisa Capron Thiers. The glass plate negatives (42 8x10-inch, 6 5x7-inch, and 15 4x5-inch) were taken by Samuel W. French; there is one corresponding print of his wife, Minnie Boardman French. The printing plates include portraits of Charles Quarles and of Louisa Kirwan Thiers on her 107th birthday.
M78-619
Photographs, 1678-1977
Physical Description: 2607 photographs and 25 negatives (9 archives boxes and 8 flat boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Comprised primarily of images of family members in various settings, including recreational pursuits in Northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Many photographs created by Louis Thiers, a professional photographer, are included in this collection. Includes tintypes.
Box   1
Quarles family
Box   2
Quarles family
Box   3
Louis Thiers, photographer
Box   4
Louis Thiers, photographer
Box   5
Thiers family
Box   6
Samuel and Louis French family
Box   7
Louis French family
Box   8
Unidentified people
Box   9
General
Box   10
Samuel French scrapbook
Box   11
Samuel French scrapbook
Box   12
Samuel French scrapbook
Box   13
Samuel French scrapbook
Box   14
Samuel French scrapbook
Box   15
Samuel French scrapbook
Box   16
Charles Quarles, University of Michigan album
Box   17
French, Thiers, and Quarles family
M90-301
Architectural drawings
Physical Description: 9 drawings (1 oversize folder) 
Scope and Content Note: For a home owned by Charles Quarles on Farwell Place, Milwaukee, designed by James Douglas.