Women, a man and children sit and pose beside a canvas and timber tent in Colorado. Sue J. Fr[e?]y wears a patterned dress and wire rimmed glasses and sits on a bench made of logs and arched sticks. Mary E. Ferguson sits on a wooden porch and wears a fitted jacket with front buttons over a long skirt. Margaret Ferguson Poley wears a pince-nez and a skirt with stripes and sits beside Elizabeth Ferguson Poley Schrader who wears a pleated, plaid skirt, a cotton or linen jacket with a wide pointed collar, a knit cap and holds a tree branch with dried needles and pine cones. Horace Swartley Poley wears a flat brimmed straw hat, a neckerchief and a jacket, and poses beside Frank Ferguson Poley who wears a hat with a rounded skull cap and a flat straw brim, and a double breasted coat with an oversized, pointed collar.
Description
1 photographic print on card mount ; 17 x 11 cm. (6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)
Is Part Of
C Photo Collection 37. H. S. Poley collection.
Subject
Families--Colorado--1890-1900; Photographers--Colorado--1890-1900; Spouses--Colorado--1890-1900; Tents--Colorado--1890-1900; Women--Colorado--1890-1900; Poley, Frank Ferguson; Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley); Poley, Margaret Ferguson; Schrader, Elizabeth Ferguson Poley.
Format-Medium
Photograph
Source
Linn Poley, 1976
Rights Contact Information
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Related Material
Image File: ZZR700172589
Notes
"Mary E. Ferguson, Margaret Ferguson Poley, Elizabeth Ferguson Poley Schrader, Frank Ferguson Poley, Horace Swartley Poley, Sue J. Fry, at Green Mountain Falls [crossed out], Boulder, Colo. 1896[?]s" inked on verso.; Emulsion flaws on original negative reproduced in photographic print.; Title supplied.; R7001725899
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