Refreshments

Refreshments

Most likely a Guss family member, this young baby boy is identified on the mount verso as being 9 months old, along with the description Baby Bottle.

Loren E. Guss: 1874-1964

Amateur photographer Loren Guss was active at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Century in Spring City, PA, a northern suburb of Philadelphia. A printer by trade according to his death certificate, by 1898, he was the Secretary of the family business organized on June 15, 1891: the Spring City Steam Paper and Box Manufacturing Company.

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Dimensions

Image Dimensions9.2 x 11.8 cm laid down, including white print border

Support Dimensions16.8 x 22.1 cm red & manilla cardstock

Print Notes

Recto: Signed by the artist in white pencil on mount: “Refreshments”; at LR corner: LE Guss

Verso: Marginalia by the artist in graphite: 9 mos old; Baby Bottle; Guss; Spring City, Pa

 

Provenance

Purchased for this archive in January, 2021 from dealer in Philadelphia, PA who stated it was included as part of a large collection of photographs that had been accumulated by a local historian ~ nearly all of Chester County and surrounding areas.