Portrait of Jeanne Jeanie Malott Hillen

Name/Title

Portrait of Jeanne "Jeanie" Malott Hillen

Entry/Object ID

2015.20.19

Description

Scanned photograph copy of a portrait of Jeanne "Jeanie" Malott Hillen, circa 1890-1900. Jeanie was the wife of the Superior train depot's station agent, Robert H. Hillen, married August 4, 1892. She and Robert raised their grandson, Robert Hillen, for a few years at the live-in depot in the 1920s and 1930s.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Unknown

Collection

Permanent Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1890 - 1900

Notes

Date: 1895 circa Copy/Orig/Other: Scan (JPEG, PDF, etc)

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Portrait photographs, Women

Search Terms

Colorado and Southern Railway, Denver & Interurban Railroad, Superior, Superior Depot

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Jeanie Hillen

Provenance

Notes

Original photograph was found with a pair of photograph albums owned by Katherine Hillen Renfroe, daughter of Robert H. Hillen (named after his grandfather). As a child, Robert lived for a few years at the Superior train depot with his grandparents, C&S Railroad station agent Robert Hillen and wife Jeanne "Jeanie" Malott Hillen. The albums were put together by Jeanne Malott Hillen, who intended to give one album to grandson Robert and his younger sister, Rose Hillen (later Rose Hillen Watson). Jeanne probably assembled the albums sometime in the 1930s. Ultimately, Rose became the sole owner of the albums before passing them on to Katherine Renfroe, Rose's niece. Photograph 2015.20.19 was probably taken sometime in the 2000s; it is a photograph of another photograph that was taken in the 1890s. In 2015, select photographs from the album were scanned by Broomfield Depot Museum staff and volunteers, and then formally accessioned into the Museum's collections. The Broomfield Depot Museum Collections do not contain the original album(s), or photographic prints therein.