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Photo Album PageEntry/Object ID
2022.5.17Description
"#18: Interesting, as it is a Ruth Telling charcoal of Owen (Franklin) Aldis and Mary Cornelia, most interesting because you see so much of the boy in Owen that was Graham's gift of physical endowment as a boy, that Mary Cornelia has those luminous Keeley eyes and the facial structure of her mother."
"#19 & #20: A painting of Graham when he was in England during the war. An English lady artist, unknown to Graham, asked to paint him as what she thought of as a typical American officer. Graham, who hated to pose for a portrait as too tedious, agreed. Graham liked it enough to send it to his mother and she hung it in the Playhouse. Just before the wrecker's ball was to come in when the phone company was about to build on a portion of the Aldis' property they bought, I went through all of the buldings with Graham one Sunday afternoon after lunch. There were truck loads of things I wanted to save, and, some of them I did. There was this portrait and I did not know how to approach it. 'Surely that is not going to go with demoloshing the building," I suggested. Graham: "If you want it, I'd be pleased." I carried it out of the building to our station wagon, on the spot."
"#21: An Albert Sterner portrait of Graham's grandmother. She was an elegant lady, a holdover from the Victorian period. Graham spent many hours with her playing word games in the York Harbor house when his parents were abroad. (We have a photo of that, as I recall.) It is one of my favorite portraits, and everyone that sees it agrees. Isn't that a handsome face... and Aldis face."
-Notes provided by Roy E. Porter, son-in-law of Graham Aldis, and grandson-in-law of Arthur Aldis.Lexicon
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Album, PhotographNomenclature Primary Object Term
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MemorabiliaNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
