Gravestone of John Cook, Farmhand on the Brown Farm

Name/Title

Gravestone of John Cook, Farmhand on the Brown Farm

Entry/Object ID

2015.18.19

Description

Scanned color photograph of the gravestone of John "Cookie" Cook, a farmhand who William Brown hired from Ohio before 1900. Cook passed away in 1915, and William Brown paid for his burial at Lakeview Cemetery. The gravestone reads, "John Cook 1849-1915, At Rest." The backside of the photograph has an inscription labeling the photograph with description and the date that the photograph was taken, 1998. The inscription reads, "Cookie - Will Brown's hired man. Will paid for plot - see Cemetery journal."

Collection

Permanent Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1998 - 1998

Notes

Date: 1998/03 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

Gravestones, Cemeteries, Farming

Search Terms

Lakeview Cemetery

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Image, Digital

Provenance

Notes

The photograph is part of a larger collection of photographs taken and kept by the Brown family. The collection, along with a pair of diaries and a collection of poems, were scanned by Broomfield Depot Museum staff in 2015. The scans were donated to the museum by Janet Justice-Waddington, the daughter of Frances Ridsdale, that same year. Janet owns the original photographs as of 2015; the originals are not in the Broomfield Depot Museum's collections.