Name/Title
Philips, Martha (Worthington Hook) Portraits, 1860-1907Entry/Object ID
P2015.22.87ADescription
Philips, Martha (Worthington Hook) Portraits, 1860-1907. Portraits, digital images, and snapshots of Martha Hook Philips in adult life through elderly years.
A = Portrait, c. 1860. Oval on mat. Young woman with dark hair severely combed to embrace her face, wearing dark dress with slight lace V-neck; cord-style necklace, ribbon from back cap tied at neck. Sepia. Mushet, Los Angeles, Photographer, 3½" x 5½" oval, on 7" x 9" mat.
B = Digital image of Tintype affixed in Worthington Family History Notebook, 15.22.83. Young woman, in long dark dress, standing beside a rough wooden fence. Her dark hair has a long curl over her shoulders. She is wearing a dark veil in the back of her head and holding her. gloves. c. 1865
C = Martha Philips holding a baby, her 13th child, Lilly (Clara Louisa) who is dead. Taken in Easton, PA in 1863. The baby died at age 4 months. Martha is wearing mourning clothes, dark dress with black long veil down her back. The baby is sitting up on her mother's lap dressed in white christening-style dress. b/w. Copy, 5" x 7"
D = Martha Philips holding a baby, her 15th child, Paul Herbert, who is dead. He died at age 6 months in 1868. Martha is sitting in a high back chair with the baby "sleeping' in her arms. She is wearing a dark dress with white lace collar. She looks very forlorn and is looking down not at camera. b/w. Copy taken as snapshot of framed photo. 3½" x 5"
E = Portrait of Martha Philips at middle age. Bust view. She is wearing a dark high-collar dress with white jabot tied at the throat. Her dark hair is pulled back from her face. Sepia. Photographer info has been cut off. 4¼" x 6"
F = Portrait of Martha in her senior years, 1898. Martha's her hair has turned grey. She is wearing it pulled back with bangs in front and a hair comb at the crown. She is dressed in a dark dress, with dark striped-sleeves and high collar closed with brooch. A white "handkerchief" is inserted into the button front of her dress. b/w. Huges & Sandberg Photographers, Omaha, NE. 4¼" x 6½"
G = Portrait of Martha, 1907, a year before her death at age 84. She is standing on the porch of her sister Mary Belle's home in Omaha next to a bay window. She is wearing a hip-length ruffled black cape over a long black dress, a black hat with short veil in back sits over her hair, with curly bangs protruding. In her gloved hands she is holding a rolled paper. b/w. No photographer information, 4¼" x 6½"
H = Snapshot of bungalow, taken in the fall. Handwritten on back "Grandma Philips Cottage", This is likely 320 N. 10th St., where Martha Philips lived at her death.Collection
Conrad-PhilipsMade/Created
Date made
1860 - 1907Notes
Date: 1907Lexicon
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
Tenth Street, 320 North, Genealogy, Philips Family, Christ Episcopal Church, Tenth StreetDimensions
Dimension Notes
Printsize: NARelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Martha Hook PhilipsProvenance
Notes
Photos & documents in family of Rev. William Philips, once rector at Christ Episcopal Church in St. Joseph. Donated by g-granddaughter of William Philips.
