Local Families Photograph Collection/Elwood Glisson, Amy Ida Glisson, May Hall, Detta Hall, Harrie Brown, Hattie Brown
Elwood Glisson, Amy Ida Glisson, May Hall, Detta Hall, Harrie Brown, Hattie Brown
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Local Families Photograph Collection/Elwood Glisson, Amy Ida Glisson, May Hall, Detta Hall, Harrie Brown, Hattie BrownEntry/Object ID
2023.006.037Tags
PhotographScope and Content
This photograph collection primarily consists of the Hall and Williams family and their extended relations of Chester County, Pennsylvania. At some point in the 20th century the family and photographs extend to Meadville of Crawford County, Pennsylvania.Context
Real photo postcard photograph (1907-1920s) of Elwood Glisson (bottom right, 1855-1938), Amy Ida Williams Glisson (top middle, 1857-1944), Lulu Mabel Hall ("May Hall", bottom middle, 1863-1937), Flora DeEtta Hall ("Detta Hall", top right, 1858-1932), Harrie H. Brown (bottom left, 1879-1938), and Harriet ("Hattie") Wilcox Brown (top left, 1854-1926) Through their father's side, DeEtta and Mabel are cousins of Amy Ida Glisson. Through their mother's, they are cousins of Hattie, who is Harrie's mother. This is the porch of "Aunt" Rosanna B. Smith Hall (1836-1905)'s house in Meadville, PA. She lived there with her daughters DeEtta and Mabel Hall as of the 1900 Census; they remained living there up to the 1930 Census. Lucy Ann Gaylord Scott (1837-1929) lived there as a "roommate" as of the 1910 Census. Postcard from Meadville, PA photographer Henry Edgarton Ellsworth's (1866-1954) studio. Ellsworth was a cousin of DeEtta and Mabel Hall.Collection
MSS 006 Local Families Photograph CollectionCataloged By
Daniel McCormickCategory
Elwood Glisson, Amy Ida Williams Glisson, Flora DeEtta Hall, Lulu Mabel Hall, Harry Hamilton Brown, Harriet Wilcox Brown, Henry Edgarton Ellsworth
Williams Family, Hall Family, Smith Family, Brown Family, Photographers and Photography Studios, Ellsworth Family