This collection is comprised of a photograph album and three groups of manuscripts related to the Toll, Mitchell, and Clark families of upstate New York and Los Angeles, California.
The photograph album (27cm x 32cm) contains 30 photographs: cabinet cards, card photographs, and photo postcards laid into the volume. The first several images are exterior views of Toll and Mitchell family homes in Baldwinsville and Memphis, New York, sometimes with family members present. Other images show the Baldwinsville cemetery, the interior of A[sabel] K. Clark's music store, and interiors of the Clark family home in Los Angeles, California. The remaining items are mounted studio portraits of Toll and Mitchell family members; photographs of Truman Mitchell, Sarah Hyde Toll, Sophia Hinman Mitchell, and Abel Hyde and Sarah Mitchell Toll with manuscript wills mounted on the back, dated as early as 1856 and as late as 1893. Two images are duplicated: a portrait of Abel Hyde and Sarah Mitchell Toll (2 copies) and a photographic postcard featuring an unidentified residence (7 copies). The album's purple cloth cover originally had the title "Photographs" stamped front and back; the text is now faded.
The remaining items are approximately 34 manuscripts related to the Toll, Mitchell, and Clark families, including deeds, bank checks, financial records, wills, and correspondence. The deeds relate to land in upstate New York, and a few items pertain to estate administration. Personal letters from Laura F. Clark of Los Angeles, California, to her father are also present, as is a marriage certificate for Mariah Mitchell [sic] and Oliver Glass.
Charles H. Toll (September 24, 1786-May 13, 1869) and his wife, Sarah Hyde (December 10, 1788-March 1, 1864), married on November 29, 1809. They lived in Camillus and Van Buren, New York, with their eight children, who included Abel Hyde Toll (April 1, 1822-May 18, 1893). On June 29, 1847, Abel Hyde Toll married Sarah Elizabeth Mitchell (October 3, 1824-February 25, 1891), the daughter of Truman Mitchell (January 2, 1790-January 31, 1871) and Sophia Hinman (April 9, 1797-November 1, 1861); they had three children: Truman Mitchell (April 1848-March 22, 1914), Charles Hansen (April 26, 1850-December 4, 1901), and Juliette (May 27, 1853-1931). Truman Mitchell Toll married into the Clark family, and Juliette M. Toll married W. Pierce Blakely. Charles Hansen Toll graduated from Hamilton College in 1872 and moved to Colorado in 1875, later becoming the state attorney general.
Truman Mitchell and Sophia Hinman had two other children, Aaron H. and Maria L. (or Mariah). Maria married Oliver Glass; Aaron and his wife had three children: E. D., Truman A., and M. Louise.
