Walter Chalmers Smith and Agnes Monteith-Smith
PhotographerPhotographed by
R. S. & W. Forrest
(Scottish, 1890 - 1905)
PhotographerPhotographed by
John Moffat
(Scottish, 1819 - 1894)
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
Date1872-1908
MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper on cardboard mount; gelatin silver prints on paper and cardboard mounts.
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 7 3/8 x 5 3/4in. (18.7 x 14.6cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 9 7/8 x 6 3/8in. (25.1 x 16.2cm) or smaller
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of the George Keller family
Object number2014.9.122-.125
DescriptionFormal studio portraits and amateur snapshots of Walter Chalmers Smith and Agnes Monteith-Smith, Mary Keller's parents. One photograph is of the gravestone and funeral flowers of Walter Chalmers Smith. The formal studio portrait is of Agnes Monteith-Smith sitting in a chair with arms folded and an open book on her lap. Amatuer snapshots are of Walter Chalmers Smith sitting in a chair outside his summer home in Kinbuck, Scotland.
NotesSubject note: Walter Chalmers Smith, the son of Walter Smith and Barbara Milne, was born in Alberdeen, Scotland on Decemeber 5, 1824. He attended Marischal College at the University of Aberdeen and became the ordained pastor of the Chadwell Street Scottish Church in London on December 25, 1850. He became the moderator of the Free Church of Scotland in 1893. He married Agnes Monteith in 1855 and they had 4 children, one of wom was Mary Barbara Monteith Smith Keller. He died on September 19, 1908.Subject note: Agnes Monteith-Smith, the daughter of Rev. James Monteith and Margaret Darling Thomson, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on February 15, 1822. She married Walter Chalmers Smith in 1855 and they had 4 children, one of whom was Mary Barbara Monteith Smith Keller. She died June 2,1880.
Status
Not on view
about 1865
