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Frank Palmer Cavenagh photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS C33

Scope and Content

36 photographic negatives (various sizes) depicting various landscapes, buildings, people (students), and Western Reserve Academy scenes in Hudson, Ohio. The photographs have been digitized and added to the Hudson Library's internal photograph catalog. Contact the Hudson Library for more information.

Dates

  • Creation: 1925-1935

Creator

Restrictions on Access

The collection is open for research use.

Restrictions on Use

The collection is open for research use.

Biography of Frank Palmer Cavenagh

Frank Palmer Cavenagh (1914-1983) graduated from Western Reserve Academy in 1932.

Frank Palmer Cavenagh (1914-1983) was born in Ohio to Mary Gillette Cavenagh Downes (1890-1981) and John S. Cavenagh (1885-1921). He attended Western Reserve Academy and graduated in 1932. The Cavenagh/Downes family lived on the second floor of the store at 41 E. Main Street and his mother Mary had an antique shop on the ground floor. The family later moved to 36 Baldwin Street. In 1938, the family moved to Cleveland Heights and, then to California in 1943. Frank Palmer Cavenagh married Margaret Macduffie (1916-2009), also a resident of Hudson. Cavenagh's World War II draft card lists his employer as The Warner and Swasey Company, a Cleveland-based manufacturing company. Cavenagh later worked as an editor of a trade magazine in California according to the 1950 census. -Information provided by donor (Cavenagh's half-brother) and census information.

Extent

0.2 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Photographic negatives that Frank Palmer Cavenagh took while a student at Western Reserve Academy in the 1930s.

Statement of Arrangement

The collection is arranged into 5 envelopes keeping together the photographic groupings as originally ordered and named by creator: 1) Academy scenes 2) Hudson, aerial views, misc. 3) Academy scenes / landscape 4) Scenes, misc., Clock tower, Hudson 5) Evamere Lane, Elms, Hudson.

Acquisition Information

The collection was donated by Frank Palmer Cavenagh's half-brother Richard Downes in 1991 (accession no. 1991-01)

Title
Finding aid for the Frank Palmer Cavenagh photographs
Status
Completed
Author
Finding aid prepared by Polly Reynolds
Date
2024
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Hudson Library & Historical Society Repository

Contact:
96 Library Street
Hudson OH 44236