Carl and Anne Spadoni Portuguese Collection
Carl and Anne Spadoni Portuguese Collection. 1st accrual. – ca. 1905-1924. – ca. 3 cm photographs, 3 glass plate negatives, and textual records (1 box).
Collection comprises records related to Portuguese political figures and members of the royal family who lived in the 19th-20th centuries.
Collection is organized alphabetically by the name of the subject of each file.
Please note this finding aid includes the following abbreviation:
TLS: Typed letter signed (typed, signed letter)
Box 1
F.1 Arriaga, Manuel de (first elected president of the First Portuguese Republic). 2 B&W photos, 1 glass plate negative, n.d.
F.2 Braga, Théofilo (Portuguese writer, playwright, politician and second president of the First Portuguese Republic). TLS in French on behalf of the Academy of Sciences of Portugal offering condolences on the death of French composer Jules Massenet, 16 August 1912, signed by Braga and the two secretaries of the Academy, António Cabreira (mathematician and astronomer) and Lévy Besabat (writer). News clipping of a photo of Braga and António José de Almeida (Minister of the Interior during Braga’s presidency, later the sixth president of the First Republic), n.d. Bronze medal by Cabral Antunes, image of Braga on obverse, 12 lines on reverse about Braga (dated 1915), 1924, 6.5x5cm, 93 grams. 7 B&W photos of Braga later in life.
F.3 Dom Carlos I (King of Portugal). B&W photo of Prince Arthur of Connaught and the king’s brother Afonso, Duke of Porto in Lisbon, n.d. 10 B&W photos and 1 glass plate negative of the funeral of the king and his son, Prince Royal Dom Luis Filipe, including one photo of the Prince of Wales’ arrival, 8 February 1908. 4 B&W photos of various locations in Portugal, n.d.
F.4 Dom Manuel II (last King of Portugal). 4 mounted B&W photos, n.d. 2 B&W portraits of Manuel as a boy, ca. 1905. 4 B&W photos of Manuel as a young man in exile in England, Brown Brothers, n.d.
F.5 Dona Maria Amélia (last Queen of Portugal). 7 B&W portraits and 1 glass plate negative of the queen. 3 B&W photos of the queen in England with her sister, Princess Louise of Orléans, n.d. B&W photo of the queen at the 3rd London General Hospital, training to be a nurse, n.d.
Donated Books
The following books have been removed from the archive and added to the Division’s monograph collection:
Braga, Théofilo. Antologia Portugueza (Porto: Livraria Universal de Magalhaes e Moniz, 1876).
Braga, Théofilo. Folhas verdes (Porto: Livraria de Anselmo de Moraes, 1896).
Braga, Théofilo. Manual de historia de litteratura Portugueza. (Porto: Livraria Universal de Magalhaes e Moniz, 1875).
Braga, Théofilo. Parnaso Portuguez Moderno (Lisboa: Francisco Arthur da Silva, 1878).
