Name/Title
Pietro and Eugenia Lagomarsino CapellaEntry/Object ID
TP1911Description
Unidentified man and woman, full length portrait, cabinet card, from Bacigalupi family album #4, the man is seated in glider/rocker with ankles crossed, he is wearing a dark medium lapel suit with darker vest, white shirt and tie, a watch chain is hanging from top vest button to lower vest pocket, wearing slip on shoes or boots, he is clean shaven with hair parted on the left and combed to the right. She is standing beside him with one hand on his shoulder, she is dressed in form fitted jacket/bodice with capelet sleeves over full upper sleeve that becomes fitted at the elbow. The bodice is worn over an under blouse gathered into a smooth neckband and with gathered fullness into the center buttoned bodice. Her skirt is fitted, floor length with tucks banded about the hem. it may have a bustle. Her hair is dressed in curls, drawn back behind her ears and into a chignon or bun in the back. This appears to be a wedding portrait.
Identification: Pietro Capella and wife Eugenia Lagomarsino Capella, married Christmas Day 1893 at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Sonora.. Pietro, a native of Scurtabo Italy, died less than one year later on Dec, 4. 1894. Eugenia would later marry Pietro Guissi and become matriarch of the well-known Guissi family. (Kurt Sinclair, Oct 8, 2026).
Type: PaperCollection
TCHS - Tuolumne County Historical Society