Steiger Family Collection - PP25

Collection finding aids of Photograph Collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Maryland Historical Society Library

STEIGER FAMILY COLLECTION
ca. 1868-1910
PP25

Prints and Photographs Division, Maryland Historical Society
201 W. Monument St.
Baltimore, MD 21201

Finding aid created by Katherine Cowan with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, July 1999

History

The Steiger family lived near Laurel in Howard County, Maryland, where William Tell Steiger (1801-1888) owned and operated Brightwood Farm. His wife, Hannah Van Patten Steiger (fl. 1865-1900) wrote newspaper articles for The American Famer in the 1880s, as well as writing and editing The Free Quill during the same years.

One family member was George Nye Steiger (1890-1961), a graduate of Occidental College (Los Angeles, Ca.) in 1906, and of Harvard University in 1914. In 1914, he married Susan LePage Cronmiller, a neighbor from his childhood home near Laurel. An expert on the Far East, Steiger taught for St. Johns College in Shanghai, China, and was a correspondent for the Sunpapers on Chinese politics and society during the 1920s. He moved to teach at Harvard University in 1920, and later joined the faculty at Simmons College, staying until his retirement. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1923.

Collection Origin

Gift of Margaret Van Patten Marshall, 1980 (75642).

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 1 box with 3 folders containing 26 photographs made ca. 1868-1910. Subjects include the Steiger family and their home, Brightwood, in Howard County, near Laurel, as well as their winter home on the St. John River near Palatka, Florida. Also included is a photo of St. Philips Church, Laurel, Md.

Note: Related materials are in MS. 2501, the Steiger Family Papers, in the Manuscripts Department of the Maryland Historical Society.

Arrangement

The photographs are arranged by general subject in the following series:

Steiger family photographs, ca. 1868-1910.

Steiger and Van Patten Marshall families, n.d.

"Brightwood" (near Laurel, Md.) and Steiger family group portraits, n.d. and ca. 1890s.

Container List

1 Box

Box 1: 3 Folders

Box 1, Folder 1
Steiger family photographs, ca. 1868-1910. 8 items.

Mr. Steiger, Mr. Laue, Mr. Broque, Tell Steiger, ca. 1868.

Cabinet photograph of Augusta Steiger, 1890.

Cabinet photograph of Wm. Tell Steiger, 1880.

Two cabinet photographs of Tell, Jack, Van and Neil, ca. 1870.

Van Patten Steiger, ca. 1880. Photograph by Whitman (Bridgeport, Conn.).

Neil, ca. 1910.

Box 1, Folder 2
Steiger and Van Patten Marshall families, n.d. 11 items.

Andrew Wilton Steiger, n.d. Photograph by Partridge (Boston, Mass.).

William Tell (Steiger, Jr.?), n.d. Photograph by Photographic Arts Co. (Washington, D.C.).

Andrew Wilton and wife Lottie, and children Dorothy and Edward, n.d. Photograph by Edsall Studio (New York, N.Y.).

Frank Steiger, n.d. Photograph by F. Gutekunst (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Ezekial Millers mother, n.d. Photograph by Naughton (Champagne, Ill.).

Hannah Elizabeth Steiger, n.d. Photograph by Merritt (Washington, D.C.)

Hannah Steiger, n.d.

Sons of Harry Steiger: George (Jack) Nye, Neil, Tell and Van, n.d. Photograph by Charles Parker (Washington, D.C.).

Hannah Van Patten Steiger, n.d. Photograph by Perkins (Baltimore, Md.).

Will Dodge, n.d. Photograph by J. Goldier (Washington, D.C.).

Mattie Dodge, n.d. Photograph by J. Goldier (Washington, D.C.).

Box 1, Folder 3
"Brightwood" (near Laurel, Md.) and Steiger family group portraits, n.d. and ca. 1890s. 7 items.

Brightwood, n.d.

St. Philips Church (Laurel, Md.), n.d.

Steigers winter home in Florida, n.d.

Van, George Nye, Neal, and William Tell Steiger at Brightwood, 1891.

Hannah, Van, and George (Jack) Nye Steiger with Maggie Lane at Brightwood, 1892.

Group on steps of Brightwood, 1890.

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Steiger Family Collection - PP25