Name/Title
Littlefield, Fred & ThelmaEntry/Object ID
1994.007.463Description
Print, photographic. B/W photo of Fred Littlefield and his daughter, Thelma Walden Littlefield [Shriner]. Taken outdoors, probably at Bowling Brook. Fred is seated on a wicker chair; Thelma is next to him, sitting on a hammock. Mounted on heavy textured cream-colored paper. Written on back in pencil: "Fred Littlefield Thelma Littlefield". 4.125" x 6.125". C.1910.Acquisition
Accession
1994.007Source or Donor
Shriner, Thelma WaldenAcquisition Method
BequestGeneral Notes
Note
Thelma Walden (Littlefield) Shriner [b. 30 October 1895 – d. 12 April 1994] was the daughter of Frederick and Minnie (Walden) Littlefield. Her grandfather, Robert Wyndham Walden, owned the Bowling Brook stables in Middleburg. Her father, Frederick Littlefield, was one of the jockeys at Bowling Brook. She married Francis Earle Shriner [b. 11 September 1890 – d. 29 October 1951] in 1920. They had no children. Earle is buried in the Pipe Creek Brethren Cemetery in Union Bridge. Thelma has markers there and in the Middleburg Methodist Church Cemetery.