In this exhibit, the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections has selected items from their extensive collection of family papers and institutional records to pay tribute to students past and present. View Exhibit
This month's featured images are of the family of Solomon Stoddard III, of Northampton, Massachusetts. Solomon Stoddard III was born February 18, 1771, third child of Hampshire County High Sheriff Solomon Stoddard (II) and his wife, Martha (Partridge) Stoddard. Solomon III was the great grandson of the Reverend Solomon Stoddard, second minister of the church at Northampton.
This collection includes a daguerreotype of eighty-two-year old Solomon Stoddard III (1771-1860) taken in 1853, an undated photograph of his wife, Sarah Tappan (1771-1852), and undated images of their son, Solomon IV (1800-?) and his wife Frances Greenwood (1808-1883). Benjamin Tappan and Sarah Homes (a grandniece of Benjamin Franklin) were the parents of Sarah Tappan. Their portraits, painted by Gilbert Stuart, are in the collections of the National Gallery of Art (view them at www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg60a/gg60a-over1.html). Also included in our exhibit is a photograph of the Tappan homestead in Northampton and biographical information on Solomon Stoddard III.