Portrait of Salome Eldred Davis Davis (1838-1921)

carte de visite

PHOTOGRAPHS
web coll CWM01
Dunshee, E.S.
USA, MA, New Bedford
paper
card 3-5/8 x 2-3/8 in.; photograph 3-1/2 x 2-1/8 in.

Carte de visite; printed on back "E. S. DUNSHEE,/ AMBROTYPE AND/ PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST/ 30 Purchase St./ NEW BEDFORD." and handwritten in pencil "Mother Davis" and in another hand in pen "From your/ Sister, Salome"; portrait of Salome Eldred Davis Davis (1838-1921); married 1859 Capt. Samuel Francis Davis (1833-1893); Capt. Davis sailed as boatsteerer and mate on CHARLES W. MORGAN, and master of whaling bark GEORGE & SUSAN and ship DESDEMONA.

1987.66.4