Name/Title
Framed Enlarged photo with charcoal accents of Ernest Fenn, c. 1895Entry/Object ID
2012.40.31Description
Acc. No. 12.40.31
Subject Category: Citizens of Alameda
Date or Period: circa 1895
Object: Photograph, framed
Description: Enlarged photographic portrait accentuated in charcoal. The photo is under glass in an ornate cast gesso frame with an original ivory colored finish accentuated in gold. The photo is bordered in off white colored painted mat.
Size: L-33” x W-29”
History of Object: Portrait of Ernest Thomas Edward Fenn, a carpenter, born in London, England in 1875 and died in Alameda in 1954. He married Maude Elizabeth McKeever, who was born in San Francisco in 1876 and died in Alameda in 1949; they were married in San Francisco in 1895. They purchased 2038 Alameda Avenue in 1922 and occupied it until they died.
Acquired from: Elizabeth Anne Cate
Date: 05/18/12Interpretative Labels
Label
PHOTOGRAPH
Portrait photograph of Ernest Thomas Fenn; carpenter, born in London, England, in 1875, and who died in Alameda, CA, in 1954.
He purchased a home at 2038 Alameda Ave. in 1922, wherein he resided the rest of his life and where his descendents lived until 2012.
12.40.31