Processed by
Pamela Tranfield
September 1996
Revised by Dorothy Nicholson
November 2003
Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
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VOLUME OF |
4 folders |
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COLLECTION |
Ca. 1860–ca. 1870 |
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PROVENANCE: |
Ione Bellamy Beal Harkness, Los Angeles, October 1946 |
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RESTRICTIONS: |
None |
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COPYRIGHT: |
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REPRODUCTION |
Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society. |
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ALTERNATE |
None |
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RELATED |
None |
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ACCESSION |
1946.0803 |
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NOTES: |
Flavius Josephus Bellamy, born 4 October 1838 in Switzerland County, Indiana, represented Switzerland and Ohio counties in the state senate in 1867, and Ripley and Switzerland counties in 1869. Bellamy graduated from Indiana Asbury (DePauw) University in 1860, and began practicing law in Switzerland County. He then enlisted as a private in the Forty-fifth Indiana Volunteers in 1861. He mustered out as a sergeant in 1864, and died 4 November 1874.
Bellamy’s parents were Jesse P. Bellamy and Nancy J. Hart Bellamy. His siblings were: John F., Jesse L., Edward F., Christian A., Sarah E., Jesse L., Eliza J., Alice, and Orlando R. Bellamy.
Sources:
History of Dearborn, Ohio, and Switzerland Counties. Chicago: Weakley, Harraman, and Co. Publishers, 1885.
Shepherd, Rebecca A., et al., eds. A Biographical Directory of the Indiana General Assembly. Vol. 1. 1816–1899. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1980.
Terrell, W. H. H. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana. Vol. 5. Indianapolis: W. R. Holloway, State Printer, 1865.
The collection contains twenty-nine cartes de visite photographs, and seven tintypes of relatives and friends of Flavius Josephus Bellamy. Two cartes de visite are of Bellamy, but the subjects of most of the photographs are unidentified. The unidentified male subjects in the cartes de visite resemble Bellamy, and may be his brothers John, Edward, and Jesse L. One subject, posing in an army uniform, may be Bellamy. Subjects identified include Charles Lee, who served as a lieutenant with Bellamy in the Forty-fifth Infantry, Charles R. Clark, also of the Forty-fifth regiment, Christine Hart Bellamy, and Jennie Snyder Bellamy. An annotation on an envelope within the collection states that Jennie Snyder Bellamy was a singer. Two unidentified tintypes may be portraits of Jennie Snyder Bellamy.
A previous processor removed the items in this collection from an album donated by Ione Bellamy Beal Harkness and placed them in four envelopes. The arrangement of the items into envelopes may reflect original groupings of photographs in the album. For this reason, the items are arranged in four folders, and the contents reflect the composition of the envelopes.
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CONTENTS |
CONTAINER |
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[Five Bellamy family portraits, ca. 1860s] |
Folder 1 |
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[Twelve unidentified portraits] |
Folder 2 |
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[Thirteen unidentified portraits] |
Folder 3 |
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[Six unidentified tintype portraits] |
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