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Branch Boarding House - Group Photograph

 Item

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

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

Related Materials

The Lula Myrtle Teague Cox Collection provides related materials about the boarding house owned by the Branch family.

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

Contact:
1830 Bobby K. Marks Drive
Huntsville TX 77341 US
9362941619