P045-P073
Scope and Contents
This series contains more than one hundred photographs and post cards, many of them undated and unidentified. Particularly notable images are photographs of the Elys and their school in Bitlis. Other photographs are of scenes in Bitlis and elsewhere in Turkey and of Armenians in the region, including orphans and refugees. This series also includes photographs of buildings and historic sites in England and Europe, probably dating from the Ely's travels in 1865-1866, and three cyanotypes of buildings at Mount Holyoke College, printed on cloth.
Dates
- ca. 1861-1915
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted
Extent
From the Collection: 2 boxes (2 boxes (10 linear in.))
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
- Three men known to the Ely sisters during their time as missionaries in Turkey, l-r: Tavit, a student; Israel, a servant; and Muckitar, a student
- Helena Melconean, probably a student at the school founded by the Ely sisters in Bitlis, Turkey
- Azniv Kazanian, probably a student at the school in Bitlis, Turkey, founded by the Ely sisters
- Family group during the time of Charlotte and Mary Ely in Turkey; cabinet card portrait
- Two girls, possibly students at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Bitlis, Turkey, founded by the Ely sisters
- Three girls, possibly students at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Bitlis, Turkey, founded by the Ely sisters
- A teacher, one of Mary Ely's "girls" at the Bitlis school, surrounded by four of her pupils
- Opium smoker, by photographer J. Cady; presented to the Ely sisters by Mr. Knapp in December, 1870
- View of historic snowfall in Bitlis, Turkey, showing sled used by Charlotte and Mary Ely when they were missionaries there
- Armenian woman associated with Charlotte and Mary A. C. Ely when they were missionaries in Bitlis, Turkey
- Armenian family group portrait, possibly taken in Bitlis, Turkey, when Charlotte and Mary A. C. Ely were missionaries there
- Armenian boy and girl known to Charlotte and Mary A. C. Ely when they were missionaries in eastern Turkey
- Woman and child known to the Ely sisters when they were missionaries in eastern Turkey
- Annie (Mary Ann Caroline) Ely '61, cabinet card portrait
- Baking bread in the "toneer" in eastern Turkey when Charlotte and Mary A. C. Ely were missionaries there
- Annie (Mary Ann Caroline) Ely '61, cabinet card portrait with inscription on back: "For Aunt Lizzie - Love of Annie"
- Peasant boy and girl in eastern Turkey when Charlotte and Mary Ely were missionaries there
- Rohan and Husniv, orphan sisters in Bitlis, Turkey, when Charlotte and Mary Ely were missionaries there
- Peasant boy and girl in eastern Turkey when Charlotte and Mary Ely were missionaries there
- Orphans of the Mount Holyoke Seminary in Bitlis, Turkey
- Peasant girl in eastern Turkey when Charlotte and Mary Ely were missionaries there
- Hanum Hodjahannean, a Bible reader and former pupil in the Ely sisters' boarding school at Bitlis, Turkey, portrayed in street costume
- Peasant boy in eastern Turkey when Charlotte and Mary Ely were missionaries there
- A corner of the campus at St. Paul's Collegiate Institute in Tarsus, Turkey
Repository Details
Part of the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Repository
50 College Street
8 Dwight Hall
South Hadley MA 01075-6425 USA
413-538-3079
archives@mtholyoke.edu