Lucy Compton Street
SubjectPortrait of
Lucy Compton Street
American, 1859 - 1942
PhotographerPhotographed by
Vail Brothers
active 1868 - 1900
Dateabout 1883
MediumPhotography; black and white photograph on paper and CDV cardstock
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 3 3/4 × 2 3/8in. (9.5 × 6cm)
Mount (height x width): 4 3/16 × 2 1/2in. (10.6 × 6.4cm)
Mount (height x width): 4 3/16 × 2 1/2in. (10.6 × 6.4cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Mrs. George Wells Cheney, Jr.
DescriptionBust length studio portrait of Lucy Compton Street as a young woman, probably taken when she graduated from Vassar College in 1883. She is looking off camera to the right. Lucy is wearing a basque jacket that has large pearl buttons over a white lace blouse. She is wearing drop earings and a choker necklace that has a cameo pendant hanging from it. Her hair is piled on top of her head and is decorated with a comb.
Object number1991.54.108
MarkingsPrinted in black ink on recto beneath image: "VAIL, 254 Main Street, / Poughkeepsie, N.Y."Printed in black ink on verso, upside down: "Vail"InscribedHandwritten in pencil on verso: "Lucy C Street / Vassar '83"NotesDate note: Estimate based on life dates, approximate age of subject in photograph, and the fact that Lucy graduated from Vassar College in 1883. (Vassar was a women's college in Poughkeepsie, New York.)
Lucy Compton Street married Wells Wadsworth Cheney in 1887.
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