Name/Title
Jordan, Clara, at age 101, Richmond, MO, Photos (6), 1953Entry/Object ID
P1995.1H.41Description
Jordan, Clara, at age 101, Richmond, MO, Photos (6), 1953. b/w. Five casual photos of an elderly woman taken outside her home, two with Bartlett Boder in photo. One photo of the envelope and letter written by Mrs. Jordan to the St. Joseph Historical Society on the occasion of her 101st birthday. Article about Mrs. Jordan in Museum Graphic, Winter, 1953, Vol. V., p. 11.
Mrs. Jordan was born in St. Joseph, MO on a farm that was located on Frederick Avenue near 12th St. owned by her father Benjamin Harding. Harding became Indian Agent at Highland, KS c. 1854 and had a land claim in Wathena, where he kept a store the Indians frequented. In the above article she recalls her childhood. (see 95.1H.87 for Ben Harding)
95.1H.41 = Mrs. Jordan in patterned dress sitting in chair surrounded by floral bouquets, taken outside, dark with shadows.
95.1H.42 = Close-up shot of the scene in #41 above.
95.1H.43 & 44 = Close-up of Mrs. Jordan with Bartlett Boder standing behind hers, with his arm about her and hands on her shoulders. Taken outside in doorway. Mrs. Jordan is wearing a different dress than that above. This one a darker dress with front button closure. She is wearing a corsage.
95.1H.45 = Full-length photo of Mrs. Jordan in same dress as #43 above, standing outside in doorway.
95.1H.46 = Photo of envelope and letter, Mrs. Jordan wrote to St. Joseph Historical Society on the occasion of her 101st birthday.Made/Created
Date made
1953Place
City
RichmondState/Province
MissouriLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsDimensions
Dimension Notes
Printsize: 7¾" x 10"Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Jordan, Clara
