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DOS2007-PC-005
Photographs of CWF's Portraits of M/M Thomas Newton
DOS2007-PC-005

Photographs of CWF's Portraits of M/M Thomas Newton

Date1880-1900
Photographer George S. Cook (1819 - 1902)
OriginAmerica, Virginia, Richmond
MediumPhoto emulsion on paper, mounted on cardstock
DimensionsEach 6 1/2" X 4 1/4"
Credit LineGift of H. Marshall Goodman and Laurence Lindberg
Object number2007-40,1&2
DescriptionHis: a photo of a 3/4-length oil portrait (now in the CWF collection as acc. no. 1954-263), the photo cropping the original somewhat on all four sides.
Hers: a photo of a 3/4-length oil portrait (now in the CWF collection as acc. no. 1954-273), the photo cropping the original somewhat on all four sides.
Both photos are laid on cardboard mounts with margins all round and the photographer's decorative imprint (name, address, etc.) on the backs.
InscribedIn script in pencil on the front of his photo, in the middle of the lower margin, is: "No. 1."
In upright script in ink on the reverse of his photo at the top is: "Thomas Newton, son of Thomas Newton/and Amy Hutchings. Married Martha/Tucker."
In script in pencil on the front of her photo, in the middle of the lower margin, is: "No. 2."
In upright script in ink on the reverse of her photo at the top is: "Thomas Newton (infant) and his Mother/Martha Tucker Newton, wife of Thomas/Newton."

MarkingsImprinted at left in the lower margin on the front of each photo is "COOK."
Imprinted on the back of each photo, in a decorative arrangement not necessarily reflected by the line-end indicators given here, is: "GEO. S. COOK,/RICHMOND, VA./PHOTOGRAPHY/No. 913/MAIN STREET./ INSTANTANEOUS PROCESS USED/EXCLUSIVELY/DUPLICATES CAN BE PROCURED AT ANYTIME".

ProvenanceOwnership prior to Lindberg (one of CWF's donors) is unknown.