Branch Boarding House - Group Photograph
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of three black and white matted photographs of Maude Alexandra Noyes' (Miller) time at Sam Houston Normal Institue. The collection originally had four photographs, but one is missing.
Dates
- Creation: 1899 - 1900
Biographical / Historical
Alice Amelia Ernst married Samuel Clement Branch. They had three daughters, Mary Alice, who married Edar Rather, Sydnor, who married Alfred Burr, and Lillian, who married Ernest Orts.
Alice's father, Edward Ernst, came from Berne, Switzerland, and moved to Huntsville, Texas, in 1852. On July 30, 1855, he married Rebecca J. Cline, of Peoria, Illinois, in Huntsville, Texas. Along with Alice, they had two other children, Mary and Edward Jr.
Alice Amelia Ernst Branch died on May 12, 1900.
Extent
1 Photographic Prints (In a clear archival sleeve in folder 2 of box 1.) : Matted black and white photograph. The matte is brown.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Description
The brown matted black and white photograph of women living in a boarding house owned by the Branch family in Huntsville, Texas. The women are in front of a backdrop with an individual looking at a piece of paper, and the rest of the women are looking at her. Some are sitting on the ground or on a chair, and some are standing. Alice Amelia Ernst Branch, or Mrs. Branch, ran the boarding house in the photograph along with her daughter, Lillian Branch.
On the front of the matte in cursive and black ink are the names of the women in the photograph.
On the back of the matted photograph is a loose piece of paper describing where Maude Noyes is in the photograph in black ink. Maude Noyes Johnson, her niece who donated this collection, wrote the note.
Repository Details
Part of the Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives Repository