P074-P090
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
- View of Moosh (Muş), Turkey, with buildings on a hillside, as it looked when Charlotte and Mary Ely were missionaries in eastern Turkey
- View of the summer camping place in Bitlis, Turkey, showing the Maynards' terrace with tents of delegates to the annual conference of missionaries
- View of Bitlis, Turkey, under heavy snow, showing the shanties where the Ely sisters took refuge during the earthquake of 1907
- Two peasant women using a "toneer" to bake bread during the time of Charlotte and Mary A. C. Ely in Turkey
- "A tiny glimpse of a small part of Bitlis in winter snow," during the time that the Ely sisters were missionaries in eastern Turkey
- View of Bitlis, Turkey, where Charlotte and Mary Ely founded school
- View on road from Bitlis to Sert (Siirt), Turkey, near location of Ely sisters' missionary activities
- Summer quarters of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary near Bitlis, Turkey (Mt. Cindian or Sindian)
- View of temporary quarters of the Ely sisters in Bitlis, Turkey, after the earthquake
- View of classroom in school in Bitlis, Turkey
- Mt. Cindian (Sindian) camping place, near Bitlis, Turkey, where Charlotte and Mary Ely and other missionaries spent summers
- Summer quarters of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary near Bitlis, Turkey (Mt. Cindian or Sindian)
- Girls' school, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, founded by Charlotte and Mary Ely in Bitlis, Turkey
- Picture of Bitlis, Turkey, sent to Mary A. C. Ely by an Englishman ("The first picture taken so far as we know," according to Mary Ely)
- "Miss Charlotte E. Ely's Winter Turnout," showing Charlotte in sled being pulled by men on skiis
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