Name/Title
Messmore, Ida, 8th Child of Jasper Messmore I, Portrait Photos (3), c. 1889Entry/Object ID
P1992.48.92Description
Messmore, Ida, 8th Child of Jasper Messmore I, Portrait Photos (3), c. 1889. Two formal portrait photos of Ida, sister of Orral Messmore Robidoux. as young woman. One enlarged snapshot of Ida, her husband, Mr. Ecremen (see 92.48.100), and her brother Japser Messmore, II, taken in Colorado Springs.
92.48.92 = Formal portrait photo of young woman, head shot. sepia. Her dark hair is pulled back with small bun at back top, curly bangs. Her dark bodice has ruffled yoke, ending in high collar. She is wearing drop earrings. Handwritten on back: "Ida Messmore, 1889 A.D." Mitchell Photographer, Kansas City. 4¼" x 6½"
92.48.93 = Formal portrait photo of young woman, standing,, ¾ view. sepia. She is wearing a white dress with dark, very large sash, tied on her left side. The puff sleeves tighten at the elbow, and end at her dark fingerless gloves. She is earring a cap-style decorated hat with tall plume. In her pose she has her left elbow on an urn that sits atop a pillar, with her left hand at her cheek. Michell Photographer, Kansas City. 4¼" x 6½"
92.48.94 = Enlarged snapshot mounted on cardboard mat. b/w. Depicts a young woman in straw hat, seated on burrow. A man in sombrero, is standing behind the burrows head. Another man is standing, holding the burrows tail to his ear. A boulder and forest is the background. "Over the telephone" is the label handwritten over the rock. Handwritten on back: Colo. Springs, Jasper Messmore II, Ida Messmore and husband Mr. Erickson (or Eckerman), Railroad Conductor., 1900, Colorado Spring." J.M. Havis Official Photographer, Cheyenne Canon, Colorado Springs, Colo. *" x 5".
Original scan on History CD7.Made/Created
Studio
Mitchell Photography, Kansas CityDate made
1889Place
City
Kansas CityState/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 ObjectsSearch Terms
Messmore FamilyDimensions
Dimension Notes
Printsize: 4¼' x 6½"Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Ida MessmorePerson or Organization
Messmore, Jasper IIProvenance
Notes
Transferred to SJM by KC Library from donation originally to them by Orral Messmore Robidoux, wife of Louis Robidoux, son of Jule C. Robidoux or a descendant.
