Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
[Portrait of Maud Morgan with a harp] |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Date |
ca. 1880 |
Description |
Original B&W print on cardboard mount. Portrait of Maud Morgan as a young woman, playing a harp. She wears a light-colored dress with short sleeves and dark trim around the hem, with a matching garment with fringed edges worn over the dress and partly confined by a belt at the waist. Printed inscription on mount: "Falk / 949 BROADWAY, N.Y." Handwritten inscriptions on reverse: "Cousin Maud" and "Maud Morgan, Harpist". (Keywords: New York City) |
Print size |
5.875 x 3.875 |
Acquisition |
Gift of Anne Keller Geraci |
Ownership and History |
Maud Morgan (1860-1941), an accomplished harpist, lived part of her life on Bloomingdale Road in Pleasant Plains, Staten Island. She was a performer of great longevity who was honored with a golden jubilee at Carnegie Hall in 1924. Photographer Benjamin J. Falk, a graduate of City College of the City University of New York, was a leading photographer known for celebrity portraits and performing arts photography. |
Earliest Date |
1875 |
Latest Date |
1885 |
Subjects |
Portrait photographs Harps Musicians |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Morgan, Maud |
Catalog Number |
13.008.0006 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, January 2016. |
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. |