Family Parlor Portrait, circa 1900
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This portrait by photographer Frank M. Goss of Waltham, Massachusetts, captured a boy seated in the parlor of his turn-of-the-twentieth-century home, with his parents posed more formally in the next room. Visible at top right, hanging on the parlor wall, is a photo of the ten-person Oriten bicycle built in 1896 by the Orient Bicycle Company of Waltham.
This portrait by photographer Frank M. Goss of Waltham, Massachusetts, captured a boy seated in the parlor of his turn-of-the-twentieth-century home, with his parents posed more formally in the next room. Visible at top right, hanging on the parlor wall, is a photo of the ten-person Oriten bicycle built in 1896 by the Orient Bicycle Company of Waltham.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1900
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
94.2.2
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Mounting
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 5.438 in
Width: 6.438 in
Inscriptions
Front, lower right corner: Frank M. Gess / Photographer / 73 Robbins St / Waltham, Mass.
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