Photographs: Henrietta Catherine Gaillard Barker, Joseph Sanford Barker, and family
Book 1, Page 127
Transcription
The page holds five mounted images arranged in two rows, with handwritten ink captions in the margins below and between them.
Upper left photograph
A black-and-white photograph of an elderly woman seated, wearing a white bonnet and a dark dress, hands folded in her lap. The caption beneath, in pencil/ink small caps:
HENRIETTA CATHERINE GAILLARD BARKER.
Connector between the two upper photographs
Written in cursive between the two upper photos:
wife
of
Upper right photograph
A photograph reproducing a painted portrait of a young man with curling brown hair, wearing a dark coat with high collar and white cravat, seated at a table with a letter visible. The caption written in cursive ink across several lines beneath:
JOSEPH SANFORD BARKER. Portrait painted when he was 21. The letter before him is addressed to his Mother — Abigail Rogers Barker in Rhode Island. She afterward came to Charleston, S.C. — to live with him and is buried in the 1st Baptist [church-yard].
Lower left photograph
A sepia carte-de-visite of a young woman seated, in a high-collared dark dress, hair pulled back. Embossed Charleston studio mark in lower corner. A handwritten caption beneath in faded ink:
Henrietta Catherine Barker — Grand-daughter of the above — Henrietta [Catherine Gaillard] & Joseph Sanford Barker
Center card
A small white card with an ink inscription, in cursive:
Letter to Henrietta Barker — “Katie”
from her brother
William Barker
Lower right miniature
A small oval miniature portrait of a young man with light hair, in a dark coat, set against a dark background. The caption beneath, in cursive:
Theodore Gaillard
AI Notes
Five mounted images on a single album page with handwritten ink captions in the margins. Upper left: a black-and-white photograph of an elderly woman in a white bonnet and dark dress, captioned ‘Henrietta Catherine Gaillard Barker.’ Upper right (larger): a photograph of a painted portrait of a young man in early-19th-century dress, captioned with a multi-line note about Joseph Sanford Barker, his portrait being painted at age 21, and the letter he holds being addressed to his mother Abigail Rogers Barker in Rhode Island, who afterward came to Charleston to live with him and is buried in the 1st Baptist church-yard. Between the two upper photos, a small notation reads ‘wife of’. Lower left: a sepia carte-de-visite of a young woman with embossed Charleston studio mark, captioned identifying her as Henrietta Catherine Barker, granddaughter of the above (Henrietta & Joseph Sanford Barker). Center bottom: a small white card bearing an ink inscription about a letter from William Barker to his sister Henrietta ‘Katie’ Barker. Lower right: a small oval miniature portrait of a man, captioned ‘Theodore Gaillard.’
Henrietta Catherine Gaillard Barker (1774–1858) is the compiler’s great-great-grandmother on the Barker side; her son Samuel Gaillard Barker fathered Susan Milliken Barker, who married Dr. Christopher FitzSimons (3rd) and was the compiler’s paternal grandmother. Joseph Sanford Barker (1771–1844) of Newport, R.I., relocated to Charleston after his marriage. The miniature of Theodore Gaillard at lower right is her father — the Charleston merchant and Cooper-River planter who served in the 2nd South Carolina Provincial Congress in 1775; see page 131 for the full Gaillard pedigree.