Two women and two children on a wood bridge (Ada Newbury of Mystic)

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:4088

Persons

Creator (cre): Newbury, Edward H., 1867-1960

Title

Two women and two children on a wood bridge (Ada Newbury of Mystic)

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1897 (year approximate)

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

Two women and two children are on a wood bridge in a wooded area. The girl on the left is Alla Lynne Perkins. Sitting next to her is a woman identiifed as Aunt Sarah Stoddard Clift. The woman standing next to her may be Annie Clift Newbury. The girl on the right, squatting and reaching for something on the ground, is identified as probably Ada (Adah) Newbury of Mystic.

Genre

photographs

Subject

Children

Bridges

Newbury, Adah Ashbey 1893-1967

Geographic Subject

Mystic (Conn.)

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : glass negative ; 4 x 5 in.

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Note

Note Type	source note
Note	Newbury Collection

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Lifestyle

Note	Title supplied by cataloger. Taken by Edward H. Newbury, a Mystic businessman and amateur photographer. Adah Newbury, daughter of Edward H., in later life dropped the "h" for a more fashionable spelling of Ada. Annie Newbury was her mother. Alla Lynne Perkins was a maternal cousin of Ada's.

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1980.41.556

IMG0080-4168.tif

Two women and two children on a wood bridge (Ada Newbury of Mystic)

Share