Enlarged watercolor enhanced photo Myrtle Fisher, c. 1897

Photograph

Alameda Museum & Meyers House and Gardens

Name/Title

Enlarged watercolor enhanced photo Myrtle Fisher, c. 1897

Entry/Object ID

1983.32.5

Description

Acc. No. 83.32.5 Subject Category: Citizens of Alameda Date or period: Circa-1897 Object: Photograph, framed Description: Enlarged photograph, hand colored with watercolors. Photo is signed Marceau, S.F., and is mounted on linen on a canvas stretcher. Frame (not original to subject) is composed of three sections of molding. Outer section embossed gesso in a wheat and flower motif, inner section is ebonized with incised design in white, inner liner is embossed in an ornate gesso design. Size: photo: 24x20 inches; frame: 30 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches. History of Object: Photographic portrait, circa 1897, of Myrtle Fisher, born Alameda, 1890, graduated Alameda High School, 1908. She was the daughter of Bertrand L. Fisher (of Combs & Fisher, Park Street merchants). She married Sydney Wilson, and had two children, Jean Lorraine & Robert A. Wilson. Her mother, Cora Combs, married Bertrand L. Fisher, and had two children daughter (Herald and Myrtle). Cora Combs was the daughter of Milton Combs, died Alameda, 1873, an early Justice-of-the-Peace. Acquired from: Robert A. Wilson Date: July 20, 1983 Note: Sidney George Wilson, born: March 18th, 1887 (Husband) Myrtle Blanche Fisher, born: January 9th, 1890 Married, Wed, Sept 12th, 1911 Their children: Jean Loraine Wilson, Born: Sunday, Feb 13th, 1916, died, June 14th, 1983 Robert Anglin Wilson, born, May 31th, 1919

Interpretative Labels

Label

5/3/2020 MvL: current label: Portrait of MYRTLE FISHER This photograph, taken around 1897, has been accentuated with water coloring, a common practice at that time. Miss Fisher's father, Bertrand L. Fisher, was the owner of a Park Street meat market that was known as "Combs & Fisher".