Name/Title
Group of people outside a businessEntry/Object ID
2010.46.44Description
Glass plate negative photo of a large group of adults posed outside a house (same group as 2010.46.42).
The smiling young woman dressed in white on the far left is Cora Ethyl Young (Hobbs) (Nov. 25, 1879 - July 7, 1972) (see 2022.55). David Bedell relates that his great-grandmother, Cora Hobbs, attended Gray's Portland Business College to learn secretarial work in 1900. After graduating she held a secretarial job in Saco or Biddeford from 1900 until she got married in 1905 (she worked on the family farm thereafter). Thus this photo is likely of a Saco or Biddeford business taken sometime between 1900 and 1905.