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At the Doorway, Four Children

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (American, 1809–1894)
1864?

Medium/Technique Photograph, albumen print
Dimensions Image/Sheet: 13.2 x 10.4 cm (5 3/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Mount: 25.2 x 19.8 cm (9 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Alice E. Riggs
Accession Number67.909
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Photography
ClassificationsPhotographs

DescriptionCopy of a photograph. The house was on Holmes Place; the children, from left to right are: Emma L. Morse (Miss Riggs' mother), Anna F. Morse (her aunt), Edward H. Morse (her uncle), Georgia Jones (her mother's playmate).
InscriptionsThought to have been signed and dated by Holmes, pen, lower left.
ProvenanceAlice E. Riggs, Boxford, MA; gift September 1967.