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Title |
[Portrait photograph of Ethel Benedict Cox, age 4] |
Collection Name |
Benedict Family Papers |
Date |
1891 |
Description |
This is an individual item contained within archival collection MS122.000, Benedict Family Papers. Portrait photograph, cabinet card format on tan mount with printed reddish-brown border. Full-length portrait of Ethel Benedict Cox as a child. She stands leaning one elbow on a balustrade in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a bonnet or hat tied with wide ribbons, and a long plaid double-breasted coat with four large buttons, a round collar, and wide, turned-back cuffs. Printed inscription on the lower edge of the mount: "FREDRICKS, / 770 BROADWAY, N.Y. / 1891." Printed inscription on the reverse: "FREDRICKS' / KNICKERBOCKER / FAMILY PORTRAIT GALLERY / 770 BROADWAY / COR. 9TH STREET / NEW YORK." Handwritten inscriptions on the reverse in several different handwritings: "Mrs B.W. Cox. / 201 W. 81st St;" "b. 1887;" and "Ethel Benedict Cox / age 4." |
Biography and History |
Ethel Benedict Cox (1887-1980) was the daughter of Annette (Benedict) Cox and Benjamin Whitlock Cox. She married Richard R. Lytle in 1917. Ethel's great-grandfather, Samuel Ward Benedict 1st of Staten Island, established the well-known Benedict Brothers jewelry store in lower Manhattan in 1819. The store remained in business for over 100 years, operated by succeeding generations of Benedict family members. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |
Physical Extent |
6.5" H x 4.25" W |
Acquisition |
Gift of Roy Alston |
Catalog Number |
39.009.0006 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Archival Description Level |
Item |
Parent Record |
MS122.000 |
Subjects |
Portrait photographs Children |
Earliest Date |
1891 |
Latest Date |
1891 |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Cox, Ethel Benedict |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by Barbara Newington, April 2018. |