A young girl in a dark dress with a large lace collar, resting her right arm on a chair. On the front: "Hurd, No. Adams, Mass." On the back (stamped): "From/The Union,/Springfield, Mass."; (in pencil): "Sarah Hamer/77 W. Main/No. Adams"; (in ink):…
A young girl standing with her right hand on a cane stand. A chair can be see to her left. On the front: "Lyon/44 Holden Street,/North Adams, Mass./Successor to Ogden." The back of the card is blank.
Four women in dark dresses; perhaps sisters in mourning. On the back: "Hurd's/portraits/North Adams,/Mass./All photographs taken by the/new instantaneous proces/The negative from which this photograph/was printed is preserved for/further orders."
A full-length portrait of a women in a dress of elaborately patterned fabric. She is resting her hands on a piece of upholstered furniture. On the front: "Ward/North Adams,/Mass." Also, the letters HDW intertwined. The back is blank.
A full-length of a young woman. Her dress has large puffed sleeves and cuffs. She is resting her right hand on a chair. On the front: "Lyon/44 Holden Street,/North Adams, Mass." The back is blank.
A cabinet card photograph taken at the Hurd & Smith's Excelsior Gallery. James Stevens was one of the stagecoach drivers who took passengers over the Hoosac Mountain before the Hoosac Tunnel opened in 1875. He is mentioned in Washington Gladden's…
Head and shoulders of a man with a long, bushy mustache. On the back: "H.D. Ward,/Photographic/artist/78 Main Street/No. Adams, Mass.; (in ink): "T T Munger/taken November 1885./New Haven 124 Wall St/E D Munger."