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Blanche Hungerford Latimer Collection - PP69
Finding Aid to the Blanche Hungerford Latimer Photograph Collection, 1913-1918, PP69
H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Historical Society
Collection summary
Title | Blanche Hungerford Latimer Photograph Collection |
Creator | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford |
Call number | PP69 |
Inclusive dates | 1913-1918 |
Bulk dates | 1915-1917 |
Extent | 3 boxes |
Abstract | Contains photographs taken by Blanche Hungerford Latimer. Subjects range from scenes in New York City to portraits of her friends and family. The collection also includes her husband’s, Walter R. Latimer, work on similar subjects. Other photographers represented in the collection are Paul L. Anderson, Alice Willet, Clarence H. White, and H. R. Neeson. |
Administrative summary
Repository | H. Furlong Baldwin Library Maryland Historical Society 201 W. Monument St. Baltimore, MD 21201 |
Access restrictions | Open to the public without restrictions. |
Use restrictions | For information about how to purchase digital reproductions and for permission information, please visit the Rights and Reproductions page. |
Provenance | Gift of Walter R. Latimer, Jr., 1976 (72251); and gift of Mrs. F.H. Icaza, 1976 (72542) and 1981 (76488) |
Accession number | 72251; 72542; 76488 |
Processing note | Finding aid created by Katherine Cowan, December, 1999; Reprocessed by Lara Westwood, February, 2015 |
Biographical Note
Blanche Hungerford Latimer (ca. 1889-1944) was born in Baltimore, the daughter of Blanche A. Crowther Hungerford and Dr. Robert Arthur Hungerford. After attending Western High School, Blanche studied at the Maryland Institute for seven years, on her way to becoming a portrait photographer. She continued her studies in New York City, where she did postgraduate work in the School of Art and Photography at Columbia University and studied with pictorialist Clarence H. White at his School of Photography in 1914. White’s teachings advocated for the photographer to create the image with manipulation in the development process rather than a true-to-life replication.
She met with success in her career as a photographer. The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain exhibited two of her photographs in 1914. Her photograph “City Street” was published in the 1920 edition of Pictorial Photography in America, the publication of the Pictorial Photographers of America, which was founded in 1916 by White. “City Street” exemplified her murky, black and white style, which portrays her subjects in soft focus. Her other examples of her work were exhibited in the United States, and internationally in England, and Russia. Latimer had a studio on Hamilton St. in Baltimore.
She met her husband, Walter Roland Latimer, Sr. (ca. 1878-1924), in New York, from High Bridge, New Jersey, who was also a student of Clarence H. White. They married in 1918. They had two children, Blanche Adelaide and Walter Roland. The family lived in High Bridge, but after her husband’s death, the family moved to Maryland.
Scope and Content
The collection primarily contains photographs taken by Blanche Hungerford Latimer. Subjects range from scenes in New York City to portraits of her friends and family. Photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge and of St. John the Divine Cathedral are highlights of the collection. She also experimented with different development processes and styles, but mostly created platinum prints. The collection also includes her husband’s, Walter R. Latimer, work on similar subjects. He also created several portraits of his wife. Other photographers represented in the collection are Paul L. Anderson, Alice Willet, Clarence H. White, and H. R. Neeson.
The collection is organized in fifteen series by subject or photographer. They have also been arranged by size. Smaller prints are located in Box 1 and may have larger duplicates in Boxes 2 and 3. The photographs of Blanche H. Latimer are arranged by subject, whereas the rest are filed by photographer. Some of the photographs were remounted for exhibition, but wherever possible the original mountings are kept with the print.
Note:
Two of the photographs from the collection were removed to the Cased Photograph Collection:
CSPH 282: Hungerford, Blanche Alice Crowther. Opalotype.
CSPH 283: Crowther, Blanche Alice (Mrs. R. Arthur Hungerford). Tintype.
Container List
Contents | Dates | Photographer | Image ID # | Box |
Series I: New York City |
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New York City scenes | Ca. 1915-1916 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.001-.003 | 1 |
Brooklyn Bridge | 1913-1915 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.004-.005 | 1 |
Dock scenes | No date | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.006 | 1 |
Grant’s Tomb | 1913 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.007 | 1 |
On the East Side | Ca. 1915-1916 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.008-.009 | 1 |
St. John the Divine Cathedral | No date | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.010-.016 | 1 |
Trinity Church, Wall Street | Ca. 1915 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.017 | 1 |
Series II: Cyanotypes |
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Cyanotypes | No date | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.018-.020 | 1 |
Series III: Maryland Scenes |
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Maryland scenes | Ca. 1916-1917 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.021-.022 | 1 |
Series IV: Miscellaneous |
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Miscellaneous | No date | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.023-.031.2 | 1 |
Series V: Portraits |
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The Wayside Blacksmith | Before October 1915 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.032-.033 | 1 |
Mary Hungerford Farrier | 1917 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.034 | 1 |
The Reverend William Lindsay Glenn (Godfather of Blanche A. H. Latimer and W. R. Latimer, Jr.) | No date | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.035-.036 | 1 |
(Robert) Arthur Hungerford (Died 12/1/16) | Ca. 1915-1916 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.037-.040 | 1 |
Marie de Ford Keller | No date | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.041 | 1 |
The Reverend Arthur B. Kingsolving and daughter Anne (Mrs. John Nicholas Brown) | 1915 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.042 | 1 |
Francis Gibbs LaMotte | No date | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.043 | 1 |
Blanche Adelaide Hungerford Latimer (6-7 mos. old) in baptismal robe of Hungerford family | No date | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.044 | 1 |
Unidentified portraits | 1914 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.045-.046 | 1 |
Series VI: Walter R. Latimer |
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Portraits of B. H. Latimer | 1915 | Latimer, Walter R. | PP69.047-.048 | 1 |
Series VII: Other Photographers |
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B. H. Latimer and Dr. W. Wayne Babcock | No date | Unidentified | PP69.049 | 1 |
Portraits of B. H. Latimer | 1915-1918 | Unidentified (possibly B. H. or W. R. Latimer) | PP69.050-.063 | 1 |
Latimer wedding | 1918, May 7 | Unidentified | PP69.064-.065 | 1 |
Mary Hungerford | No date | Koehne, William L. | PP69.066 | 1 |
Unidentified portraits | No date, 1914 | Unidentified | PP69.067-.068 |
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Series VIII: Ephemera |
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Ephemera | No date, 1883-1917 |
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Series IX: New York City |
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New York City | No date | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.069-.070 | 2 |
Dock scene | No date | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford [?] | PP69.071 | 2 |
Dock scene (Spuyten Duyril) | No date | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.072 | 2 |
Dock scenes | No date | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.073-.074 | 2 |
Brooklyn Bridge | 1915 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.075-.077 | 2 |
City Street | 1914 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.078 | 2 |
St. John the Divine Cathedral | No date | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.079 | 2 |
Series X: “Weeds” |
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“Weeds” | Ca. 1915 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.080-.081 | 2 |
Series XI: Miscellaneous |
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Miscellaneous | No date | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.082-.083.2 | 2 |
Series XII: Portraits |
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“Romance” | 1914 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.084 | 3 |
George Farrier, Jr. | October 1914 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.085 | 3 |
Anne Kingsolving | 1915 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.086 | 3 |
Unidentified portraits | No date, 1915 | Latimer, Blanche Hungerford | PP69.087-.089 | 3 |
Series XIII: Printed works |
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Saturday Evening Post | 1913, May 17 |
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Series XIV: Walter R. Latimer |
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A Bunch of Color | 1917 | Latimer, Walter R. | PP69.090 | 3 |
Metallic Lace | 1915 | Latimer, Walter R. | PP69.091-.092 | 3 |
Miss Brown | 1915 | Latimer, Walter R. | PP69.093 | 3 |
Floyd and Guy (Latimer) | 1916 | Latimer, Walter R. | PP69.094 | 3 |
Blanche Hungerford Latimer | 1914-1917 | Latimer, Walter R. | PP69.095-.101 | 3 |
Series XV: Other Photographers |
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Blanche Hungerford Latimer | 1918 | Unidentified | PP69.102 | 3 |
Blanche Hungerford Latimer | 1915 | Anderson, Paul L. | PP69.103-.104 | 3 |
Blanche Hungerford Latimer | No date | Neeson, H. R. | PP69.105 | 3 |
Senior Student Body of Clarence H. White School of Photography, New York City | Ca. 1914 | White, Clarence H. | PP69.106 | 3 |
Walter R. Latimer, Sr. | Ca. 1915 | Willett, Alice | PP69.107 | 3 |
Unidentified portraits | No date | Unidentified (possibly B. H. or W. R. Latimer) | PP69.108-.111 | 3 |
