43.05.12

Photograph, Tintype

1885 Approximate

Portrait of a Young Woman. Material: metal. Size: 2 1/4" x 3 3/8" tintype photograph of a young woman, an unidentified member of the Emmons Smith family; shown posed in studio setting with painted backdrop seated in one-armed fringed portrait chair; there is a hole punched through the upper right corner of tintype; same woman is in Accession 43.05.14

This donation was made by the great-grandson of Emmons Smith, Sr. and provided this family information: Emmons Smith, Sr. was a Waseca Co. Commissioner and once owned the Waverly Hotel on S. State at 2nd Ave. S.E.; married Catherine (Kate) O'Brian; his five children - William Dennis Smith (b. Feb 16, 1883, d. May 3, 1916, m. Phoebe Lortis, 1903), Emmons H. Smith, Jr. (b. Sept 4, 1884), Edna Mae Smith (b. Nov 27, 1885, m. Harry A. Fowler, 1905), Margaret Mary Smith aka Babe, b. July 27, 1889, m. D. C. Steele, 1909), Earle James Smith (b. Oct 29, 1901, m. Gretchen Heath, 1922)