Post-mortem of Clyde Burl Brown Jr. [1927-1934]

Post-mortem photograph of Clyde Burl Brown Jr. [1927-1934]

Post-mortem photograph of Clyde Burl Brown Jr. [1927-1934]

Name/Title

Post-mortem of Clyde Burl Brown Jr. [1927-1934]

Entry/Object ID

2006.1.80

Description

Post-mortem photograph of Clyde Burl Brown Jr. [1927-1934] - son of Clyde Burl Brown Sr. and Sarah Watson. Clyde was accidentally shot by a neighbor, Fred Fordyce, who was helping Clyde's father to control groundhogs around the Brown home. Original, candid.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Collection

Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2006.1

Acquisition Method

Digital

Credit Line

Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman

Made/Created

Date made

1934

Lexicon

Search Terms

Brown family, Funerals, Post-mortem photography, Watson family

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

TOOK_AN002_0019

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Watson-Anderson Series - Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman Collection

Acquisition Method

Digital

Notes

The Watson-Anderson Series photographs were most likely passed from Robert Watson [1847-1942] and his wife, Catharine Anderson [1848-1933] to their daughter Ella May (Watson) Throckmorton [1893-1988] and her husband, Robert Lawrence Throckmorton, Sr. [1889-1964] to their daughter, Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2006. Source Citation: Post-mortem photograph of Clyde Burl Brown Jr. [1927-1934]; item no. TOOK_AN002_0019, Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman Collection; Greene Connections Archives Project (GreeneConnections.com).