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Margaret Duncan Phillips

Collection Type

  • Photography

GUSN

GUSN-221654

Description

Black and white quarter length portrait photograph of Margaret Duncan Phillips sitting in a wood chair. She is in her sixties or seventies. Her hair is pulled back into a bun. One hand rests of the handle of an umbrella and the other hand rests on her lap and she is holding a pair of spectacles. She is wearing a dark dress with a striped pattern on the sleeves. Simple wood frame.

Details

Descriptive Terms

photographic prints
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
Print, Photographic

Inscription

"Library / Right breast of / fireplace. -Right / column - Number / one from bottom- / Bottom" (handwritten)

Associated Person

Phillips, Margaret Duncan

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

P343

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

12 4/16 x 9 1/16 x 10/16 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.766

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