Name/Title
Identifying Note Regarding PortraitsEntry/Object ID
2000.FIC.02.283Scope and Content
This is a 4" x 8" slip of paper identified by pencil mark in the upper right hand corner as for use on the "bulletin board".
[Although the note refers to a newspaper clipping, the clipping was not included with this record, but is 2000.FIC.02.028.]
The note reads:
The following is from a newspaper clipping among the Cahoon paper and probably describes the portraits over the 1818 fireplace:
"fifty years - Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Cahoon, "At Home"
To Their friends in the Golden Close of a Half Century...
Many valuable presents adorned a center table in the west parlor. Among these, particularly noticeable, were two handsome crayon pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Cahoon, by the artist,
Kavanaugh, of the City Hall. These were a present from one of the daughters. In rare contrast to them were the crayons of the two, taken shortly after their weing..."Collection
Early Family Papers: CahoonRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Cahoon, J.B., Mrs.Person or Organization
Cahoon, J.B.Related Entries
Notes
2000.FIC.02.027, 2000.FIC.02.028, 2021.FIC.001, 2021.FIC.002