Hilda Keller Photograph Album
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
Dateabout 1955
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver prints on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 2 3/8 x 2 3/8in. (6 x 6cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 3 1/2 x 3 1/2in. (8.9 x 8.9cm) or smaller
Other (album height x width): 2 5/8 x 4 1/2in. (6.7 x 11.4cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of the George Keller family
Object number2014.9.109
DescriptionSmall photograph album containing six black and white photographs bound by a paper cover stapled together. All photos show Hilda Keller and Isabel Cochrane inside 24 Park Terrace after they were converted into apartments. Several of the photographs were taken in the drawing room and dining room. Isabel is reading in two of the photos.
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.Subject note: Isabel Margaret Cochrane was born in Edinburgh, July 30,1886. She met Hilda during World War II when volunteering with the Red Cross and later rented an apartment at Park Terrace in Hartford, Connecticut.
Date note: Date of the photographs in the album was taken from information provided in a book by Anne Keller Geraci, "Keller Families: Descendants of George Keller and Mary Barbara Monteith Smith". p.30
Status
Not on view
Ilka Robles
June-August 2003
