This formal portrait of C.R. Tucker (1868-1956) was taken during the time he was teaching physics at Curtis High School on Staten Island. In addition to sharing a love for amateur photography, Chester Moulton Whitney (1873-1949) and Tucker were good friends and their family socialized together. Several surviving photos show Whitney’s young son playing with Tucker’s daughter Dorothy at the Tucker home in New Dorp, Staten Island.

Both natives of Massachusetts and public school teachers, the Alden Letter from 1949 mentioned Tucker had spent a week with “Mr. Whitney” at his summer home in Boothbay Harbor, ME in August of that year, the same year Whitney passed.

Charles Rollins Tucker, 1868-1956.

See our in-depth blog posts with links below: Revealed: C.R. Tucker: Restless Wanderer with a Camera, & Rescued: Dorothy Tucker: For the Love of a Daughter, to learn more.