Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1947.004.0001Description
Photo of boys group in a play that was given by the sisters of the St. Joseph's school. First row: Harry Phelan, ?, ? Torey, ?, Jim Cullen, Bud Robinson. 2nd row: Frank Jordan, Clifford Keefe, Frank Mahoney, Joe Smith, Julius Wallenstein, and Frank Cullen. Two copies and one original.
Update - January 2010: Sepia print. Studio portrait. Mounted on black matboard. Image of 12 boys in top hats & tails with canes, posed in front of a painted backdrop.
Written on the emulsion surface in pencil: [back row left to right] "Frank Jordon [sic][;] Clifford Keefer[;] Frank Mahoney[;] Frank Cullen. [front row left to right] "Harry Phelan[;][unidentified] Tovey[;] [unidentified] Jim Cullen [;] Bud Robinson."
Written on the back in black ink: "Copied & mounted" "Page 77, pix 4 1 1/2 x 3 1/2 - 41%" "5262"
Mounted on acidic matboard; cut down from original size - edges rough & uneven. Badly scratched, soiled & stained both front & back.
Scanned version of image has the following identification written on back
These boys were in a play that was given by the Sisters of St Joseph's School. First row: Harry Phelan[sic]unidentified, Toxey, unidentified, Jim Cullen, bud Robinson; second row: Frank Jordan, Clifford Keefe, Frank Mahoney, Joe Smith, Julius Wallenstein, and Frank Cullen.
Similar image has these boys identified as [from back row left]"Frank Jordon, Elmer Poltos; Frank Mahoney, Julius Wallenstein, Joe Smith, Frank Cullen (front row left to right] Harry Phelan, Walter Patnoe, Martin Snyder, James Wagner, Jim Cullen, John (Bud) RobinsonCollection
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