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Gift of the Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation, 2011_344_120  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical …
Harriet V.S. Thorne, Family and Others at Okeetee Club
Gift of the Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation, 2011_344_120 © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Harriet V.S. Thorne, Family and Others at Okeetee Club

Photographer (American, 1843 - 1926)
Dateabout 1902
MediumPhotography; gelatin emulsion on glass
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 4 7/8 x 6 13/16in. (12.4 x 17.3cm)
Plate (height x width): 5 x 7in. (12.7 x 17.8cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of the Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation
DescriptionThirteen people are posing on the porch of Okeetee Club. Jonathan Thorne, Jr. and Samuel Thorne are standing on the left, and Harriet V.S. Thorne, wearing a hat, is seated with a little boy on her lap. The boy may be Victor C. Thorne.


Object number2011.344.120
NotesSubject Note: Okeetee Club, incorporated in 1894 and possibly designed by the New York, N.Y. architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, was founded as a hunting club in Ridgeland, South Carolina. Jonathan Thorne, Jr., Harriet V.S. Thorne's husband, was a co-founder and is listed as having been present during the years of 1895-1897, 1899-1907, 1909 and 1914. It is unclear whether Harriet was in attendance with her husband. From Rollie Thorne McKenna's correspondence with Leland M. Roth, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Oregon and Gay Attaway, 1979. The identification information for Jonathan, Samuel and Harriet Thorne comes from "The Photographs of Harriet V.S. Thorne" exhibition list, compiled by Rollie McKenna. The tentative identification of Victor C. Thorne comes from inscriptions on the index card attached to the verso of the contact print.
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