Name/Title
Reese, Mary Pauline PerryEntry/Object ID
1941.049.041Description
Print, photographic. Image of Mary Pauline Perry Reese by photographic studio J. W. Baldwin, Westminster, Maryland. Undated. Reverse side labeled "Mary Pauline Perry (Mrs. James W. Reese)." Also labeled in pencil "Families R." Portrait shows head of a woman with hair parted in the center formed into long braids wound behind her head. She wears earrings and a scoop-necked dress. Cardboard holding photograph is embossed with vine designs in four corners and serrated edges. Overall size 3.75" x 3.75". Image is circular, 3" diameter. C.1900.Context
Mary Pauline Perry. She was the wife of Dr. James W. Reese, who was a professor at Western Maryland College. The Reeses were boarders in the Shellman household.
Mary Pauline and James’ son, Paul Reese, was born in the bedroom above the parlor of the Shellman house, where his parents resided before 1877. Mary Pauline Perry was born in Bangor, Maine, and was educated at Thorndale Academy near Taneytown, Maryland, and at Female College in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Elizabeth (1817-1862), was a younger sister of Catherine Jones Shellman, making Mary Pauline Perry and Mary Bostwick Shellman first cousins.Acquisition
Accession
1941.049Source or Donor
Reese, PaulAcquisition Method
Gift
