Photograph

Name/Title

Photograph

Entry/Object ID

2012.018.0010

Description

Photograph, black and white 3.25 x 5.5 inches, portrait orientation. Shows three older people, two women and a man, taken outdoors at Dodgeville, Wisconsin, May 1920. On the Back is written in pencil "Taken at Dodgeville in May 1920. Father 80 yrs, Mother 74 yrs, Cora 48 yrs." Cora Rogers Williams is on the left side.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Williams, Cora Modesta Rogers, Rogers, Agnes Alderson, Rogers, Joseph Verney

Made/Created

Date made

May 1920

Time Period

20th Century

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

Dimensions

Dimension Description

3.25 x 5.5 inches

Research Notes

Research Type

Registrar

Person

Putzier, Jennifer

Date

Oct 4, 2021

Notes

Given the ages and the dates, it is likely that "Mother" and "father" are Cora's parents, Joseph Verney Rogers b 1840 and Agnes Rogers b 1846

General Notes

Note Type

Cataloging Note

Note

Cora Rogers married Curtis Ulysses Williams and raised their children Wilda Mae Williams Shamrock, Alice Mareta Williams Lindhorn and Harold Curtis Williams in West Chicago. Item was in a plain envelope with "Irma" Written on the front. No historical value; the envelope was discarded.