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The collection consists of a photograph album containing mostly portraits of the Molten family. The photographs are all albumen
prints from the 1870s and 1880s except for one tintype from the 1860s. Reference material provided by the Molten descendants
identify many of the portrait subjects and photographers, and it is noted that some of the unidentified portraits may be of
the Brearley branch of the family. The photographers based in Philadelphia include Frederick Gutekunst, Broadbent & Phillips,
Suddards & Fennemore, Taylor & Brown, James Cremer, O. Knipe, P. Edward Chillman & Co., Gilbert & Bacon, and Samuel McMullin.
Other photographers, many of whom were based in New England but some were as distant as Australia, England, and Germany, include
F. Baum, Rawson, J.A. Wins, H.G. Smith, G. & R. Lavis, Moses Bowness, Tuttle & Co., Hermann Witte, R. Dighton, W. L. (Washington
Lafayette) Germon, and Harry Pointer.
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