New England Women's Auxiliary Association photograph album.

Corporate Authors : U. S. Sanitary Commission ; May, Abby W. 1829-1888.

Boston : sp, sd — ca 1862-1866.

Description : 42 [l.] in album ; 14.5 x 9.5 cm.

Photographs : 42 cartes-de-visite, 10 x 6 cm.

Photographers : varia ; Edward L. Allen (active ca 1860s-1890s) ; James Wallace Black 1825-1896 ; John Adams Whipple, 1822-1891.

Repository : Massachusetts Historical Society.

Subject : Military Medicine — U. S. Sanitary Commission, Civil War, 1860-1865.

Notes :

• Album apparently owned by Abby W. May.
• 39 photos are of individual members, mostly women officers of the Auxiliary.
• 3 photos are of Sanitary Commission buildings in Newbern, N.C. and elsewhere.
• Caption information provided for most of the photographs.
• URL of the Massachusetts Historical Society : http://www.masshist.org
• Abby W. May was a leader in Boston reform circles and the sister of the abolitionist Rev. Samuel May, Jr. (1810-1899).
• Individuals represented include A. L. Holmes, Annie T. Endicott, L.N. Goodwin, Abby S. Stephenson, Anne D. Sever, and Louisa L. Schuyler.