Springfield

Name/Title

"Springfield"

Entry/Object ID

2012.011.003

Description

Print, photographic. B/W photograph, hand-tinted, showing the entrance to a Springfield Hospital. Road runs between two stone columns, each topped with a 3-globe light fixture; there is a second, smaller, column to the outside of the larger columns; each smaller column is topped with an urn filled with flowers. Titled "Springfield" in pencil below image. Signed in pencil "Trois Soeurs". Overall size 4" x 5"; image size 2.375" x 3.625". Was framed in 2012.11.4.

Acquisition

Accession

2012.011

Source or Donor

Weller, Darleen W.

Acquisition Method

Gift

General Notes

Note

The Jones sisters had a studio in their home on Springfield Avenue in Sykesville. Fannie (b. 1881) wrote the histories that accompanied many of their photos. Ida (b.1882) graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art and did the hand-tinting in oils. Elsie (b.1885) did the photography. Their earlier works are signed "Trois Soeurs" and the later ones are signed "Jones Sisters."