Name/Title
Bessie Williams ShermanEntry/Object ID
2020.267.029Description
A full-length portrait photograph of Elizabeth "Bessie" Smith Williams (1833-1915), daughter of Charles Phelps Williams I and his first wife, Betsy Smith. Bessie married Ezra Sherman in 1862, and the couple lived in Illinois, outside of Chicago.
In this photograph she is wearing a dark colored dress, leaning against a chair. Her hair is piled atop her head in a coif, and due to her approximate age, would place the image in the 1870s. Ezra Sherman died in 1881.Collection
SHS Photography Collection