20.17.8
Print, Photographic
1900 Approximate
Portrait a Woman with Eight Boys. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 7" photo mounted on a black, 8" x 10" paper board; handwritten in white beneath the photo is "Goodspeed", the name of the studio photographer; 8 boys are unidentified except for Wesley Mahler seated to the right of the woman; Alvin Koechel is identified as seated in the front row right; all of the boys appear to be adolescent; the young woman seated in the center is wearing a long dark skirt, long sleeved white blouse and wearing a large high hat.
Speculation: May be a Sunday School Boys Class and their teacher. Likely the Methodist-Episcopal Church on Lake Avenue.