Four generation family portrait

Four generation family portrait

Item Information

Title:
Four generation family portrait
Description:
Group studio photo portrait with three women and a baby boy, each representing a different generation of the same family. They are flanked by two curtains with ornately decorated trim, and behind them is a mostly blank studio background with a shield-shaped design to the right of the camera, partially obscured by one curtain. The subjects are listed as: Great-grandmother Mrs. Gardner Parker, Age 80, seated in ornate wooden chair with small purse attached to waist Grandmother Mrs. Roswell I. Frail, standing Mother Mrs. William E. Oakley, seated on stool Baby John Roswell Oakley, age 6 months, on mother's lap As they are only identified by the names of their husbands, the women's names are not known.
Name on Item:
Willis, Milford
Date:
March 1904
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Photographic prints
Location:
Hopkinton Historical Society
Museum/History Center
Collection 21, Box 1, Folder 7 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Photographs of Hopkinton Places and People
Subjects:
Draperies
Dresses
Older people
Families
Family trees
Grandparents
Infants
Mothers
Purses
Places:
Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Hopkinton
Extent:
1 photograph : print on mount ; sheet 5.625 x 4 in., mount 7.625 x 6 in.
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Notes:
Title from item or accompanying material.
Main Street, Pleasant Street
Preferred Citation:
Courtesy of Hopkinton Historical Society
Notes (date):
Date from item or accompanying material.
Notes (object):
Original photograph.
Mounted on cardboard mat frame. Some dirty smudges on photo, mat is slightly worn at corners.
Identifier:
1000.001.399