Hilda Keller and Siblings
PhotographerPhotographed by
Richard S. DeLamater
(American, 1833 - 1915)
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
Date1896-1960
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver prints on paper, some on cardboard mounts.
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 9 3/4 x 7 1/2in. (24.8 x 19.1cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 10 x 8in. (25.4 x 20.3cm) or smaller
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of the George Keller family
Object number2014.9.51-.56
DescriptionFormal studio portraits and amateur snapshots. One photograph shows Hilda and brother, George, as a young child and infant. Other photographs show Hilda and her brothers as adults. Several photographs show Hilda in her Red Cross uniform and her brothers, George and Walter, in their naval uniforms during World War I. One photograph shows Hilda and Walter on the beach at Cape Cod. One photograph show Hilda and Walter with a model of a monument designed by their father, George Keller, a Hartford architect.
NotesSubject Note: Hilda Monteith Keller, the daughter of the Hartford architect George Keller and Mary Monteith Smith Keller, was born in Hartford, Connecticut on July 30, 1888. Hilda graduated from Hartford High School and volunteered for the Red Cross during World War I. She later worked as an administrative assistant for the Institute for Living in Hartford and then for the Motor Vehicle Department. She never married. She lived in the family's Park Terrace home in Hartford, Connecticut until 1955 when she went to live with her brother, Walter in Coventry, Connecticut. She died at Crestfield Nursing home in Manchester, Connecticut in on February 11, 1978.George Monteith Keller, son of George and Mary Keller, was born in Hartford, Connecticut on February 5, 1895 and died in Virginia on November 13, 1986. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1917, He served on the destroyer USS Taylor during World War I and as an assistant to the secretary of the Navy during World War II. Between the two wars he was an industrial relations executive with Pacific Telephone & Telegraph, Colgate Palmolive and the Crane Company in Chicago. He married Marion Hicks in 1919 and they had two children, Marion and George.
Walter Smith Keller, son of George and Mary Keller, was born in Hartford, Connecticut on August 1, 1898 and died in Coventry, Connecticut on January 6, 1981. Walter graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1921 and served in the Navy until 1952. Walter married Beatrice (Bee) Dunderdale Stokes and they had three children, Walter Jr., James, and Robert.
Status
Not on view
