Image DimensionsL: 11.5 x 8.8 | 17.5 x 12.0 cm R: 11.6 x 9.0 | 16.3 x 12.2 cm

Support DimensionsBoth shown cropped: L: 17.5 x 12.0 cm watermarked laid paper with truncated watermark: LINEN, with stylized "W" within larger circle

Recto: Left: image printed within double hairline frame and wider secondary frame; Right: hand-colored image printed within impressed frame on photographic paper; some rodent damage losses to left margin.

Purchased for this archive in November, 2015 from seller in the US state of Georgia. Background courtesy of the seller, with possible clues our “Unknown Brooklyn” photographer may be female: “The only information that I can tell you about them is that I bought them all as one lot from an antiques dealer. The dealer had bought a trunk from an estate of a lady who had passed away. There were all sorts of items in the trunk, and I was originally looking for antique clothing items. I found the photos all in one box in the trunk. There were also a couple of yearbooks from Wesleyan College here in Macon from the early 1900s in the trunk. … I asked the dealer if she knew if the lady who owned the trunk went to Wesleyan College. She said yes, it was all from her estate. She could not remember the lady’s name, as I was interested in seeing if I could find out who she was from the alumnae records. What I can tell you is that any woman who graduated from Wesleyan College, especially in the early 1900s, came from a wealthy family and from society. I remember looking through the yearbooks to see if I could find a name, but there was nothing written anywhere that could give me any information. Wesleyan College is a private, all female college here in Macon that has been in existence since around 1836. It has a reputation as being very exclusive and only the wealthy young girls from society families went there. Many of these ladies married into money and society. From the looks of the photos, that would be the case in this situation. Only someone with some wealth could afford nice photographic equipment and apparently travel all over as this person did. I wish I knew more about the lady, but I don’t.”