Name/Title
Field, Eugene, Parents, Children, Grandchildren Photos (8), 1850-1956Entry/Object ID
P1991.1H.281Description
Field, Eugene, Parents, Children, Grandchildren Photos (8), 1850-1950 b/w. Copies made of various portraits and portrait photos of members of Eugene Field's immediate family as below:91.1H.281 = Eugene Field's Mother. Photo of painting of woman in mid-life in 1850's dress. She has dark hair, center part, pulled back with braid at top back. He dark dress is covered with same fabric stole, high collar secured with pin. Handwritten on back: Francis Reed Field" c. 1850.
91.1H.282 = Eugene Field's father, photo of a lithograph of mature man with dark hair, curly, worn a bit long, with beard & mustache, wear dark 3-pice suite with wrapped ribbon tie. Handwritten on back : "Roswell Martin Field." c. 1850
91.1H.291 = Eugene Field's son born in KC in 1880, Frederick. Photo of young man in dark suit with his arms crossed. Light color hair, clean shaven. Typed on back: "Frederick Skiff Field" c. 1920. See Museum Graphic, Spring, 1954, p. 13.
91.1H.292 & 293 = Eugene Field's son, Eugene Field, Jr. Formal portrait photo of a young man, profile, arms crossed, He had dark hair, slightly receding, nez pince eyeglasses, clean shaven, wearing dark suit jacket .Handwritten on back: "Eugene Field, Jr.". #293 is enlargement of his face. c. 1920. See Museum Graphic, Spring, 1954, pg. 13.
91.1H.294 = Eugene Field's children. Photo of young woman, center, posed between small boy and girl. Head/shoulders view. Young woman has dark hair, pleated bodice with bow at neck. The boy with light hair is in sailor suit, the girl in white dress, her hair center parted with side bow. Typed on back: "Center: Mary French Field; left, Roswell Francis Field; right, Ruth Field." Taken in Chicago, c. 1895. See Museum Graphic, Spring, 1954, p. 7.
91.1H.295 = Eugene Field's youngest son in WW I military uniform. Formal portrait photo, head/shoulders view, of young man in military uniform. Handwritten on photo bottom: "To my dear aunt Carrie with deepest love. Roswell F. Field, Las Cruces, N.M." c. 1918
91.1H.296 = Roswell F. Field's family with Ruth Field at wedding reception of Charles K. Field, III in 1951. Pictures older man & woman seated in dark attire with boutineer & corsage, a young dark-haired girl in white party dress on either side. Handwritten on back: left to right: "Elizabeth Carol Field, Roswell F. Field, Ruther Field Foster, Christine Field." and "Pa's youngest son," See Museum Graphic, Spring, 1954 p. 7.
91.1H.298A-C = Eugene Field's grandson. Eugene Field Englar and wife on trip to Lover's Lane in St. Joseph. Photo of man in light color suite with woman in dark dress & hat standing next to Lovers Lane street sign. B shows them from back side holding hands. Englar is son of Mary French Field Englar. There is also a smaller photo of Englar in profile posed next to the bust of Eugene Field. 19566. See Museum Graphic, Winter 1956, p.. 3.
Original digital scan located on History CD 02Made/Created
Date made
1850 - 1956Notes
Date: 1956Lexicon
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Frances Reed Field
