85.04.5

Print, Photographic, Photograph, Cabinet

1885 Approximate

Unidentified Older Woman Set in Decorative Frame, a Yates Sisters Portrait. 3 3/4" x 5 1/2" black and white cabinet card photograph of an unidentified older woman; her image is inset in scroll and wild rose motif, indicating that the person was diseased at the time of this photographic print; cabinet card has a tissue-paper overlay imprinted with a spider web drawing in blue; photographed by Yates Sisters, Waseca, Minn.

Sheila Fitzgerald donated 13 cabinet card photographs from her mother's family which included the Moonan and Breen families. The Moonans lived on N. State St., Waseca, and were lawyers and judges, Irish and devoted members of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church parish. Most of these photographs are unidentified, but cousins Mary Breen and Rosemary Breen are identified in Accession #85.04.8