Whitney Smith Photograph Collection, 1860-1960
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Scope and Content:
The Whitney Smith photographic collection consists of
525 portraits and snapshots of the Smith and Whitney Families (including vacations to Saltair, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Yellowstone National
Park), sketches by Charles S. Whitney, and early Mormon Church leaders such as John Henry Smith.
Provenance:
Donated to Special Collections & Archives by W. Whitney Smith
of Logan, Utah in December of 1991. Removed from MS179, MS246, and MS247.
Biographical Note:
Helen Mar Kimball Whitney Family
Helen Mar Whitney (1838-1896) was the daughter of Heber C.
Kimball and
Vilate Murray. She was a prominent early Utah pioneer and a frequent contributor to the Women's Exponent.
Her husband, Horace K. Whitney (1823-1884) was a pioneer in Salt Lake Valley and worked at the LDS Church's printing and tithing office.
Her son, Orson F. Whitney (1855-1931) became an apostle in the LDS Church on April 9, 1906.
John Henry Smith Family
John Henry Smith (1848-1911) was born to George A. Smith and his fifth wife, Sarah Ann.
He
married Sarah Farr (1849-1921) on October 20, 1866 and his second wife, Josephine (1857-1948) on April 7, 1877. He served an LDS
mission in 1874 to Great Britain, but was summoned home at his father’s death in 1875. In November of 1882 he became
President of the European Mission. Smith also served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, acted as head of the
LDS Church (due to the incarceration of Church leaders on polygamy charges), and was the second counselor to Joseph F.
Smith. His political positions included assistant clerk to the territorial house of representatives, member of the
state legislature, president of the Utah constitutional convention, and president of the Mexican Colonization and Agricultural Company.
John and Sarah's son Winslow Farr Smith (1881-1966) served on an
LDS mission to Germany between 1902 and 1905, and on April 9, 1906 he was
ordained a member of the 3rd quorum of the 70. He married Emily Whitney, the daughter of Orson F. Whitney and Zina B.
Smoot, on June 7, 1906. Between 1919 and 1923 Winslow served as mission president of the Northern States Mission, and from 1924
until 1940 he served as the President for the Ensign Stake.
Winslow Whitney Smith (1907-1994) was born on May 14, 1907 to Winslow Farr Smith and Emily Whitney Smith. He served in
the LDS German Mission from 1927 to 1930 and later served as Mission President to the Swiss-German Mission from 1961
until 1965.
References.
Information for these histories was obtained through MS246, MS179, www.familysearch.org and Builders of the kingdom, by Pusey © 1981.
Register completed by Peter F. Schmid, January 1998, and revised Liz Woolcott/Jennifer Feik, February 2004.
Inventory:
Box 1.
1:01. Farr, Nancy Chase. Carte-de-visite portait, mother of Sarah Farr Smith; 1860s, by Savage
& Ottinger (Salt Lake City).
1:01a. Farr, Lorin (1820-1909). Carte-de-visite portrait; ca. 1860s, by Savage & Ottinger
(S.L.C.).
1:02-03. Garret, Earl. Carte-de-visite portrait, Earl Garrett and Winslow Farr Smith;
August 1, 1903, by Emil Clausen (Copenhagen).
1:04. Nuttall, L. John (1834-1905). Carte-de-visite portrait, Nuttall, D. McKenzie, and John
Henry Smith; July 29, 1874, by Van Dyke & Brown (Liverpool).
1:04a. Smith, George A. (1817-1875). Carte-de-visite portrait, ca. 1860s, by C.R. Savage,
Pioneer Art Gallery (S.L.C.).
1:05. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Carte-de-visite portrait, ca. 1868, by Edward Martin
(Salt Lake City).
1:05a. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Carte-de-visite portrait with wife, Marietta Smith;
signed on verso by the photographer; ca. 1868; by Edward Martin (S.L.C.).
1:06. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Carte-de-visite portrait, ca. 1870, by C.R. Savage (Salt
Lake City).
1:07-09. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Carte-de-visite portraits, early 1870s, by C.R. Savage
Art Bazar (S.L.C.).
1:10-10b. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Carte-de-visite portraits taken during Smith's
trip to Europe Nov. 1882-Jan. 1885, by J.B. Smith & Son (Nottingham).
1:11. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Carte-de-visite portrait taken during Smith's LDS
mission in Great Britain; 1874, by R.W. Thrupp (Birmingham).
1:12-13. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Carte-de-visite portraits taken on Smith's visit
to Copenhagen, during his LDS mission in Great Britain; May 24, 1875, by
Lauritz Olsen & Co.
1:14. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Carte-de-visite portrait, taken on Smith's visit to
Copenhagen, while touring the continent, taken July 28, 1883 by Hansen, Theodor H.
(Copenhagen).
1:15. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Carte-de-visite portrait, taken on Smith's visit to Bern, in 1884, M. Vollenweider & Sohn (Bern).
Box 2.
2:01-02. Smith, Nicholas G. Carte-de-visite portraits, Nicholas G. and Winslow Farr
Smith on LDS mission; September 29, 1902, by Schotel, Jac & L. (Rotterdam).
2:03-03a. Smith, Nicholas G. Carte-de-visite portrait Nicholas G. and Winslow Farr Smith
on LDS mission; ca. 1903, by Ferd. Schwalbert (Stettin).
2:04-05. Smith, Sarah Farr (1849-1921). Carte-de-visite portraits, wife of John Henry
Smith holding one of their children; September 23, 1868, by Savage & Ottinger
Portrait Gallery (S.L.C.).
2:06. Smith, Sarah Farr (1849-1921). Carte-de-visite portrait of Smith, wife of John Henry
Smith; 1860s, by C.R. Savage Pioneer Portrait Gallery (S.L.C.).
2:07. Smith, Sarah Farr (1849-1921). Carte-de-visite portrait of Smith, wife of John Henry
Smith; ca. 1880s, by C.R. Savage Art Bazar (S.L.C.).
2:08. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Portrait at 19 years of age, 1900.
2:09-10. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Portraits; 1901 or 1902, by Krueger (Salt Lake
City).
2:11. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Carte-de-visite portrait; October 6, 1902, by Ferd.
Schwalbert (Stettin).
2:12-13. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Carte-de-visite portrait; August 1, 1903, by Emil
Clausen (Copenhagen).
2:14-14a. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Carte-de-visite portraits, with George B. Miller;
October 30, 1903, by Alexander Matthaey (Stettin).
2:15. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Carte-de-visite portrait; 1903, by Alex. Matthaey
(Stettin).
2:16. Trayner, Jacob. Trayner, Winslow Farr Smith, Rupert Gaufen, and J. Howard Garrett, in
character for production of Three Hats; detail of larger print: see 4:07; March 17, 1898.
2:17. Smith, Winslow Farr. Oval portrait; ca. 1903.
2:18. Whitney, Orson F. (1855-1931). Carte-de-visite portrait; March 21, 1873, by C.R. Savage Pioneer
Art Gallery (Salt Lake City, UT).
2:19. Whitney, Zina Beal Smoot. Carte-de-visite portrait; ca. 1870s, by C.R. Savage Pioneer
Art Gallery (Slat Lake City, UT).
Box 3.
3:01. Hansen, Marie. Cabinet portrait, Hansen and son, Winslow Farr Smith; ca. 1880, by C.R.
Savage Art Bazar (S.L.C.).
3:02. Heppler, Arthur L. Portrait; Heppler, John Elkins, and Winslow Farr Smith; March 25,
1902, by Ferd. Scwalbert (Stettin).
3:03-04. Smith, George (1870-1945). Group portrait; sons of John Henry and Sarah Farr
Smith; ca. 1883, by C.R. Savage, Art Bazar (S.L.C.). Includes: Smith, Don
Carlos; Smith, E. Chase; Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ).
3:05. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Cabinet portrait; ca. 1880, by G.W. Davis (Washington,
D.C.).
3:06. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Cabinet portrait, taken Oct. 1884 while touring Ireland, by Haden (Birmingham).
3:07. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Cabinet portrait, taken during LDS mission in great
Britain; 1874, by Vandyke (Liverpool).
3:08. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Cabinet portrait, taken on visit to the continent during
LDS mission in Great Britain; 1875, by Theodor Hansen (Copenhagen).
3:09-10. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Cabinet portraits; ca. 1880, by C.R. Savage, Art
Bazar (S.L.C.).
3:11. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Cabinet portrait; ca. 1892, by C.R. Savage, Art Bazar
(S.L.C.).
3:12. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Cabinet portrait; 1890s, by Shipler (S.L.C.).
3:13. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Cabinet portrait; 1899, by Fox & Symons (S.L.C.).
3:14. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Portrait; 1899, by Granert (Chattanooga).
3:15. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Cabinet portrait; ca. 1885, by C.R. Savage, Art Bazar.
3:16-19. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Cabinet portrait; Smith in costume as the German
Emperor in Stephen's Pageant of Nations, which played in the Salt Lake
Tabernacle. Two are hand-tinted. 1892, by Sainsbury & Johnson (S.L.C.).
3:20-21. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Portraits, probably taken just before leaving on
LDS mission to Germany; January 1902, Johnson (S.L.C.).
3:22. Whitney, Zina Beal Smoot. Cabinet portrait; ca. 1870s, C.R. Savage (S.L.C.).
3:23. Smith, Sarah Farr (1849-1921). Portrait; ca. 1899, by Granert (Chattanooga).
3:24. Smith, Sarah Farr (1849-1921). Cabinet portrait, wife of John Henry Smith; 1880s, C.R.
Savage Art Bazar (S.L.C.).
Box 4.
4:01:01. Cleghorn, Clare. Portrait; ca. early 1920s, by Wilcox (Salt Lake City).
4:01:02. Crimson, Kenneth A. Portrait; July 2, 1904, Atelier Electra (Stuttgart).
4:01:03. Parkinson, George D. Portrait; May 11, 1904.
4:01:04. Smith, George A. (1817-1875). Reproduction of a drawing, on prospectus for
Zora Smith Jarvis' biography of Smith (1961); 1960.
4:01:05. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Copy print of earlier portrait, John Henry and his
wife Sarah Farr Smith, ca. 1868.
4:01:06-07. Smoot, Emily Hill. Portraits; ca. 1850s.
4:01:08. Libby, Hannah. Portrait, ca. 1850s.
4:01:09. Smith, Sarah Farr (1849-1921). Portrait; 1910s.
4:01:10. Russell, William.
4:01:11. Russell, Sarah. ca. early 1900s.
4:01:12. Russell? ca. 1910s.
4:02:01-02. LeCompte, Edward D. Portraits of the Salt Lake City doctor; 1910s.
4:02:03. Lecompte, Edward D. Portrait of the Salt Lake City doctor; 1910s, by Lumiere
(Salt Lake City).
4:02:03-09. Lecompte, Edward D. Portraits of Salt Lake doctor; ca. 1919.
4:02:10. Lecompte, Edward D. Duplicate of 4:02:02.
4:03:01-02. Smith, Claire. Portrait, sister of Winslow Farr Smith; March 31, 1930, by Lumiere
Studio (S.L.C.).
4:03:03. Smith, Claire. Portrait, sister of Winslow Farr Smith; ca. 1920s, by Thomas
Studio (S.L.C.).
4:03:04. Smith, Claire. Portrait; ca. 1930s, by Lumiere Studio (S.L.C.).
4:03:05. Smith, Claire. Duplicate of 6:01:01; May 8, 1919.
4:03:06. Smith, Claire. Duplicate of 4:03:05.
4:04:01. Smith, Emily Whitney. Portrait; ca. 1910s, by Edward Fox (Chicago).
4:04:02. Smith, Emily Whitney. Portrait; ca. early 1890s, by Monroe Studio (S.L.C.).
4:04:03-04. Smith, Emily Whitney. Portraits; ca. 1930s.
4:04:05. Smith, Emily Whitney. Portrait; ca. 1920s, by Thomas Studio (S.L.C.).
4:05:01. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Portrait; 1910, by Fox & Symons (S.L.C.).
4:05:02. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Portrait; ca. 1905, Symons (S.L.C.).
4:06:01-02. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Smith in Holy Cross Hospital with two broken
wrists; June 1897.
4:06:03. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Portrait; ca. 1905, by Johnson (S.L.C.).
4:06:04-05. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Portraits taken Oct. 6, 1904 during Smith's LDS mission to
Germany; 1903-04, by Atelier Electra (Stuttgart).
4:06:06. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Portrait; 1922, by Edward Fox (Chicago).
4:06:07-13. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Portraits; ca. 1923, by Stone (Chicago).
4:06:14. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Hand tinted portrait, 1920s.
4:06:15. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Snapshot, ca. 1920s.
4:06:16. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Portrait; 1950s.
4:07:01-02. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). On stage with Seventeenth Ward cast of Three
Hats, 1898. Includes: Smith, Frank; Trayner, Jacob; Gaufen, Rupert; Wardrof,
Dean; Davis, Ida; Garrett, j. Howard; Jacobs, Stella.
4:08:01-03. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Portraits with Ben Rich and Del Gay; 1900, by
Thomas (Ogden).
4:08:04. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Group portrait with salesman of the J.G.
McDonald Candy Co., 1902, by Johnson (S.L.C.).
4:08:05. Caricature of Ensign stake presidency including George Q. Cannon, Winslow F. Smith, and George Q. Morris.
4:08:06. Caricature of Winslow F. Smith.
4:08:08. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Groups portrait, Smith family members gathered
on the anniversary of the birth of John Henry Smith, Sept. 18, 1948. Includes:
Rex, Bessie Smith; Smith, George Albert (1870-1945); Smith, Claire; Smith
Josephine; Smith, Zella.
4:08:09. Smith, Winslow Farr (1881- ). Portrait with former missionary companions;
1958, by Fox Tiffany Studios. Includes; Hale, Heber Q.; Nibley, Preston;
Campbell, Serge.
4:08:10. Mormon Church - Officials. Composite photo, portraits of Smith family from
Joseph Smith Jr. to later patriarchs.
4:08:11-13. Salt Lake City, Utah - Colleges and Universities - 1890s. Maud May Babcock's
gym class for women, 1890s. Includes: Babcock, Maud May (1867 - 1954);
Whitney, Margaret; Whitney, Emily; Whitney, Helen; Ross, Mary.
4:08:14. Smith, Winn. Posed with Emily Smith and Thera C. Whitney, ca. 1900.
4:09:01. Unidentified portrait, 1904.
4:09:02. Unidentified portrait by Noggle, Ogden. ca. 1904
4:09:03. Unidentified woman dressed as a Gypsy(?), holding a plate of burning incense;
1910s, by Link Studio, Ogden.
4:09:04. Unidentified portrait; 1920, by Photo Arts Co., Ogden.
4:09:05. Unidentified portrait; by Chas Happe (Long Island, N.Y.). ca. 1930s.
4:09:06. Unidentified portrait; by Blank & Stoller (New York, N.Y.). ca.1930s.
4:09:07. Portrait of two unidentified women; ca. 1904.
4:09:08. Unidentified portrait of two women and one man taken March 7, 1905.
4:09:09. Portrait of unidentified women; ca. 1895.
4:09:10. Unidentified portrait of a young man dated Jan. 1901.
4:09:11. Unidentified portrait of young man dated Jan. 1901. Duplicate of 4:09:10.
4:09:12. Unidentified portrait; same young man as 4:09:10. Dated Jan. 1901.
4:09:13. Portrait of an unidentified man; ca. 1880s.
4:09:14. Unidentified portrait of a young boy wearing a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. ca. 1890s.
4:10:01. Whitney, Helen Mar (1838-1896). Full-plate tintype, hand-tinted, ca. 1860s.
4:10:02. Whitney, Horace Kimball (1823-1896). Full-plate tintype portrait, hand-tinted,ca.
1870s.
4:10:03. Whitney, Elizabeth Ann (1800-1882). Portrait; copy print after painting in E.A.
Whitney Hall at Brigham Young University. ca. 1850s.
4:10:03a. Whitney, Elizabeth Ann (188-1882). Portrait; ca. late 1860s.
4:10:04. Whitney, Helen Kimball, mother of Orson F. Whitney. Portrait; ca. 1879.
4:10:05. Whitney, Newell (1795-1850). Portrait; ca. 1830s.
4:10:06. Portrait of unidentified woman; ca. late 1890s to early 1900.
4:10:07. Orson F. Whitney (1855-1931); ca. 1880s.
Box 5.
5:01:01-45. Bryce Canyon (Utah)-Views-1920s. Views of Bryce Canyon, some professional
and some family snapshots taken on an excursion in Bryce Canyon; 5:01:38-43 by
Hopkins Photos.
5:02:01. Park City, Utah-Views-1918. Real photo postcard view.
5:02:03-04. Lagoon (Utah)-Scenes-1910s. Real photo postcards, Smith family members
swimming at "Waikiki Beach."
5:02:05-09. Saltair (Utah)-Bathers-1910s. Real photo postcards scenes of Smith family
members bathing at Saltair, seasons 1915 through 1919.
5:02:10. Real photo postcard of girl with gun; ca. 1920.
5:02:11. Real photo postcard of family portrait; ca. 1904.
5:02:12. Real photo postcard of swimmers at Saltair; August 7, 1919.
5:03:01-17. Miscellaneous family snapshots; ca. 1900-1911.
5:04:01-29. Miscellaneous family snapshots; ca. 1900-1918.
5:05:01-34. Miscellaneous family snapshots; ca. 1900-1918.
5:06:01-22. Miscellaneous family snapshots; ca. 1900-1918.
5:07:01-48. Miscellaneous family snapshots; ca. 1900-1918.
5:08:01-29. Miscellaneous family snapshots; ca. 1910-1918.
5:09:01-48. Miscellaneous family snapshots, including mission to Asia 1911-1912.
5:10:01-38. Miscellaneous family snapshots; ca. 1908-1914.
5:11:01-37. Miscellaneous family snapshots.
5:12:01-15. Miscellaneous family snapshots.
5:13:01-05. Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming)-Views-ca. 1910s. Views showing
Yellowstone River, bears, geysers, et cetera, by Haynes (St. Paul, Minnesota).
5:13:06. Jackson (Wyoming)-Views-ca. 1910s. View of Jackson Lake and Mt. Moran, by
Haynes (St. Paul).
5:14. Mississippi River (Illinois)-Views-1881. Pencil drawing by Charles S. Whitney;
probably after a photograph or lithograph, ca. 1881.
5:15. Miscellaneous drawings made and/or collected by Charles S. Whitney.
5:16. Nauvoo, Illinois-Views-1840s. Pencil drawing by Charles S. Whitney depicts Nauvoo in
the 1840s; 1883.
5:17-19. Three sketch books done by Charles S. Whitney as a child.
5:20. Photographers: Savage, C.R. Views of Utah and Tourist's Guide: published
reproductions of views throughout the state after photographs by Savage; includes text;
1887, by Savage.
Box 6.
6:01:01. Smith, Claire. Portrait, sister of Winslow Farr Smith; three poses printed as one
photograph; 1919, by Thomas Studio (Salt Lake City).
6:01:02. Murphy, Ray D. Portrait, president of Equitable Life Assurance Society of the
United States; 1953, by Fabian Bachrach (New York).
6:03. Carthage, Illinois-Jails-1880s. Pencil drawing of Carthage Jail by Charles S. Whitney;
probably after sketch in Piercy's Route From Liverpool...; ca. 1881.
6:04. Smith, John Henry (1848-1911). Portrait, with his wives and other family members;
1890s, by Johnson (S.L.C.).
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