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ca. 1850
HGO-01-004-A-2 [Drawer 44 in old database]
GUSN-254016
Two men playing checkers. At left is Mr. Amos Baker who worked at the Chapman Hall School for boys. As a middleaged man he married Matilda Eaton, great aunt of the donor. The man on the right is Mr. Samuel Parker of E. Cambridge. He adopted two of the donor's great aunts. Their name had been Eaton but they changed it and took the name of Parker. He married a granddaughter of Cotton Mather, possibly named Hanna Mather, who was widow Crocker at the time of her marriage to Parker.
checkers (board games)
group portraits
daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs
Mat: "CATHAN" stamped on the lower left corner. (MAT) CATHAN
DagID 359
1 daguerreotype
PC005
Daguerreotypes collection, c. 1845-1865
PC005.D06.128
Gift
3 1/4 x 2 3/4 (HxW)(inches)
3 3/4 x 3 1/4 x 5/8 (HxWxD)(inches)
Gift of Miss Edith Brown.
Cathan, Lucius H. (Photographer)
daguerreotypes (photographs)
photographs
Baker, Amos
Parker, Samuel
Chapman Hall School
Item
HGO-01-004-A-2 [Drawer 44 in old database]
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