Barber Family
PhotographerPhotographed by
Curtiss-Schervee Studios
PhotographerPhotographed by
Sterling Colonial Studios, Inc.
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
Dateabout 1925
MediumPhotography; platinum prints on paper, one in paper folder
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionFormal studio portraits of an infant, a young child, probably a girl, and a man holding an infant. The babies wear short dresses. The child wears a dress trimmed with ruffles and white stockings and buckled shoes. She is seated in a wooden chair. The man wears a suit and necktie.
Object number2010.186.11-.13
Inscribed2010.186.11: on verso, in pencil, "Eleanor Ruth Barber / Sterling Colonial Studios / Inc. / about 1926"2010.186.12: on verso of folder, in blue ink, "Wm P. Barber Jr. / & / John R. Barber / 1921"
2010.186.13: on verso, in pencil, "Barber Family?"
All photographs, on verso, lower right, in pencil, accession numbersNotesSubject Note: The 1930 Federal Census shows William P. Barber living in Windsor, CT with his wife Ruth H. Barber and his son John R. Barber. He was an actuary working for an insurance company. (Finlay 1/31/2011)
On View
Not on viewRichard S. DeLamater
mid 19th-early 20th century