Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Genealogical information, correspondence, photographs, and other mementos of the Carpenter family, and other related families including Snow, Isham, and Manierre. The collection seems to have been assembled by Harriet Isham Carpenter, wife of George A. Carpenter, and contains genealogical research into her background, including the Isham, Manierre, and Snow families. Her grandfather George Snow built one of the first houses in the U.S. to utilize "balloon frame" construction and...