Hilda Keller
PhotographerPhotographed by
Richard S. DeLamater
American, 1833 - 1915
PhotographerPhotographed by
Horace L. Bundy
American, 1839 - 1918
PhotographerPhotographed by
Charles T. Stuart
American, 1856 - 1902
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
PhotographerPhotographed by
Johnstone Studio
PhotographerPhotographed by
Van Dyke Studio
Date1888-1968
MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper on cardboard mount; gelatin silver prints on paper, some on cardboard mounts.
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 6 3/4 x 10in. (17.1 x 25.4cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 6 7/8 x 6 1/2in. (17.5 x 16.5cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 6 7/8 x 6 1/2in. (17.5 x 16.5cm) or smaller
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of the George Keller family
DescriptionFormal studio portraits and amateur snapshots of Hilda Keller ranging in age from infant to old age. In several of the studio portraits she is sitting or standing on a chair and in one she is posing with a harp. One shows her dressed as a bridesmaid. Several show her with her hair in braids when she is older. Many of the amatuer snapshots are taken outdoors, two show her in what is now Pope Park in Hartford, Connecticut. One shows her on the steps of the seminary library on Broad Street in Hartford, Connecticut. In several photographs she is in her Red Cross uniform. Two photographs show her in working at The Department of Motor Vehicles office. Two of the photographs are passport photos.
Object number2014.9.62-.108
InscribedMost photographs have inscriptions identifying sitters and locations.All photographs, on verso, lower right, in pencil, accession number
2014.9.66, "Hilda Keller (only a pose - I never played a note)". Photo is of Hilda with harp.
2014.9.71, "Hilda, 1898. Our old house at 24 Columbia Street which we left that year before Walt was born."
2014.9.72, "Hilda 1894. Bridesmaid for Eleanor Morgan"
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.
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