Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
[Auction at the Ward family estate] |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Photographer |
McMillen, Loring |
Date |
October 1942 |
Collection |
Staten Island Geographic Collection |
Description |
Original B&W print. View of the estate auction at the Ward family home "Oneata" on Grymes Hill, Staten Island. A large crowd of men and women stand on the lawn looking toward the porch of the house. The auctioneer is seated at a table on the porch (Keywords: New York City, Twentieth Century) |
Print size |
2.5 x 3.5 |
Acquisition |
Gift of the McMillen family in memory of Loring and Eleanor McMillen |
Ownership and History |
William Greene Ward, a noted Civil War general, lived with his wife and children in a mansion in the Grymes Hill neighborhood of Staten Island. After the deaths of his daughters Maria and Caroline in the early 1940s, the contents of the family's estate were sold at a three-day auction that was attended by more than 2,000 people. |
Earliest Date |
1942 |
Latest Date |
1942 |
Subjects |
Auctions |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Ward, Maria E. Ward, Caroline Constantia |
Catalog Number |
02.043.0217 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, August 2020. |
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. |