Phebe Sutherland Fuller

Photograph

Waseca County History Center

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

27.18.2

Description

Phebe Sutherland Fuller Portrait. Material: paper. Size: 4" x 6" Description: sepia glossy cabinet card reprint of a young woman with dark curly bangs and hair pulled back behind her head; she is wearing a dark dress with a lace filled stand up collar, buttoned down center front; a large metal cross on a chain is around her neck.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Cabinet Card

Context

Phebe Sutherland from Minnesota attended Mankato Normal School and taught school in Eagle Lake and Janesville in the 1880s; at about that time, Robert Fuller arrived in Minnesota from his native New York; they met and married; they owned the Westlawn Carriage Horse Farm in Mapleton in partnership with John Willard; after some financial losses they moved to Redwood Falls and started another Westlawn Horse Farm; after Robert died, Phebe moved back to the Mankato area where she was instrumental in starting one of the first libraries, a cemetery association, the local Red Cross and was an active Suffragette; the book contains many personal letters, photos and references to events in American history.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Class

Communication Artifact

Create Date

September 13, 2018

Update Date

January 4, 2025