A series of cabinet size albumen photos from an album that belonged to David’s (below) older brother, missionary and author Henry John van Lennep (1815-1898). Born in Smyrna in a Dutch merchant family residing there since the 1730s, Henry John van Lennep lived in Turkey the first fifteen years of his life. He spent seven years in Massachusetts, graduating Amherst in 1837. He then returned to Turkey for thirty years as a Congregational minister in Smyrna (1839-1844), Constantinople (1844-1854), Tokat (1854-1861) and after a two year visit to the US, back in Smyrna (1863-1869). Nearly blind from cataracts and at odds with many in the Congregational missionary establishment, he returned to western Massachusetts and ran a private school. Photos were offered on sale on American ebay, October 2013.

David van Lennep was born in Smyrna [Izmir], Turkey, in the late 1820s in a Dutch family that had lived in Smyrna since 1731. He emigrated to the United States in 1856 and after studying engineering at Columbia became a geologist with the preliminary surveys of the Union Pacific Railroad. He then worked at a silver mine in Unionville, Nevada, and from 1870 as manager of a quartz mine in Winnemucca, where this picture was taken. He and his wife, schoolteacher Susannah Vashti Groves, were married June 30, 1875. He died in Auburn, California, in 1910. Photo by H.C. Tandy, Main Street, Winnemucca.

William Bird van Lennep (1853-1919) was born in Constantinople, December 5, 1853, to missionary Henry John van Lennep and his wife Emily Ann Bird. He spent most of his youth in Tokat and in school in Smyrna. In 1872 he entered Princeton and graduated in 1876. He graduated Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1880 and continued his studies in Vienna, Paris and London. In 1884 he returned to Philadelphia and was appointed professor of surgery at Hahnemann in 1886. He became dean of Hahnemann in 1910 and died in 1919. Photo by Trask of Philadephia, probably taken while van Lennep was at Princeton.

Edward James Bird van Lennep (1856-1946) was born in Tokat, Turkey, July 26, 1856, to missionary Henry John van Lennep and his wife Emily Ann Bird. He spent most of his youth in Tokat and in school in Smyrna. A member of the Princeton class of 1878, he spent his adult life as a teacher and head of Sedgewick School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, which his father had founded after thirty years in the mission field in Turkey. Photo by Trask of Philadelphia, probably taken while van Lennep was at Princeton.

Eulalie Catherine van Lennep (sister of Henry John van Lennep) was born in Smyrna, Turkey, in 1822 and died in Seydiköy (near Smyrna) in 1909. The daughter of Dutch Levantine entrepreneur Richard van Lennep (1779-1827) and his Swedish Levantine wife Adèle Maria von Heidenstam (1790-1867), she married French Levantine banker Eugène Auguste Arlaud in 1865. Photo by Pinot, Versailles, circa 1870.

Unknown, photo circa 1857.

Unknown, photo circa 1860s.

Unknown, photo circa 1860s.

Unknown, photo circa 1860s.

Edela Sophie van Lennep was born in Smyrna, Turkey, in 1841 to Dutch Levantine merchant and diplomat Richard Jacob van Lennep (1811-1890) and his French Levantine wife Adelaide Charlotte Baptistine Couturier (1815-1898) - see death notice. In 1864, she married Richard Edwards, an English Levantine banker and Ottoman civil servant. The photo back is inscribed and signed by Edela to her aunt, Emily Ann Bird van Lennep: To my dear Aunt Emily with an affectionate kiss from her affectionate niece Edela Edwards. Photo by Pascal Sebah, Constantinople. The back mark and address, Rue de Péra 232, date this photo to 1859, at least five years before Edela’s marriage to Edwards.

Unknown, photo circa 1860s.

Unknown, photo circa 1860s.

Unknown, photo circa 1860s.

Unknown, photo circa 1860s.

Unknown, photo circa 1860s.

Hand Colored photo circa 1860s. Henry John van Lennep’s brother Richard had two daughters named Laura, Laura Emilie (1845-1896) and Laura Adelaide Marie (1847-1931); this is likely one of them.

Unknown, photo circa 1870s.

Unknown, photo circa 1870s.

Unknown, photo circa 1870s.

The children are evidently Henry John van Lennep’s niece and nephew. The back mark dates this photo circa 1874-79.

Unknown, the back mark dates this photo circa 1867-74.

Unknown, the back mark dates this photo circa 1867-74.

Pencil caption on reverse reads Fortunée Savalan arménienne de Smyrne. The back mark dates this photo circa 1867-1874.

The photo seems to be taken post the death of this child, of Smyrna and named as Mary van Lennep, almost certainly Marie Louise van Lennep, b. Hartford (U.S.A.) 14 Aug. 1863 and died Smyrna 1865, daughter of Henry John van Lennep (1815-1889) and his third wife Emily Ann Bird - this photo was not part of the estate shown in this gallery.