Guide to the Florence Hoskins Family Photo Album 1897-1898
PC 51

Summary Information

Repository
Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
Creator
Hoskins, Florence Mabel Armstrong.
Title
Florence Hoskins Family Photo Album
ID
PC 51
Date [inclusive]
1897-1898
Extent
.25 Linear feet of shelf space, 1 album, 12 images
Language
Collection materials are in English.
Abstract
A photo album containing 12 original black and white photographs of families and their homes in North Dakota or Minnesota in 1897-1898.

Preferred Citation

Florence Hoskins Family Photo Album, 1897-1898 (PC 51)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Biography/History

Florence Mabel Armstrong Hoskins was born in 1863 in Winnebago, MN. Her husband, Robert, was a newspaperman and then a lawyer. They married ca. 1884 and lived in Bathgate, ND until 1889 and Bismarck, ND thereafter. She died in 1941.

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Scope and Content

The album contains 12 labeled black and white photographs of family members and homes in North Dakota. Pictured are Florence Mabel Armstrong Hoskins' children Brooks, Etta, and Helen. "Ike and family" in the scrapbook probably refers to the family of Isaac J. Foster, who married Florence's sister Laura Elizabeth "Lizzie" Armstrong. Also pictured at "father's" are two older people, presumably Florence's father and mother, John Armstrong and Laura Hollembeck Armstrong. An annotation in the front of the scrapbook includes a note that it was presented to L[yndon]. K. Armstrong, Florence's brother. The photographs at "father's" are mostly likely at Winnebago, MN; the photographs. Other photographs are likely either in Bismarck, ND, or Bathgate, ND.

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Arrangement

The album is retained in its original order and binding.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections  © 2016

http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/

Terrell Library

P.O. Box 645610

Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA

509-335-6691

mascref@wsu.edu

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open and available for research use.

Acquisition Information

This album was gifted to the Washington State College Library by Marian Cryor on February 13th, 1943. Florence Mabel Armstrong Hoskins is Marian's father's sister. At some point in time prior to the late 1970s it was transferred to WSU's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC).

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Names and Subjects

Family Name(s)

  • Hoskins Family -- Photographs.
  • Armstrong Family -- Photographs.
  • Foster Family -- Photographs.

Geographic Name(s)

  • North Dakota -- Photographs.
  • Minnesota -- Photographs.

Personal Name(s)

Subject(s) :
  • Hoskins, Florence Mabel Armstrong -- Photographs.

Subject(s)

  • Photographs

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