2008.6.1.26

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unknown

untitled (Group Portrait in Catskill Mountains)

photograph

c. 1885

photograph ~ sepia

5.25 in HIGH x 8.375 in WIDE
(13.33 cm HIGH x 21.27 cm WIDE)

2008.6.1.26

inscription: "[Tapeu] in the Catskill Mountains / Oscar / Maurer (about 14 yrs old)" - written in graphite with cursive script on verst, TL.

Tag words:

building
chair
donkey
figure ~ male ~ female
foal

photograph

photography

Sepia photograph mounted on maroon paper board contains an image of nine men and eight women posed together in front of a house. The men wear suits, ties, and hats, and the women wear long dresses with high collars. At left in the foreground, a boy sits on a donkey that is suckling a foal. An empty ladder back side chair appears at left. The number 106 appears on the exterior of the building in the bottom left corner of the photograph.

Used: Oscar Maurer

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