John & Nellie Metzger Portrait
by Hendee, Denney H. 1882
Black and white cabinet card photo, taken in studio. Oval portrait of John and Nellie Metzger. John is seated and Nellie is standing beside with arms resting on his shoulder. Both formally dressed in late Victorian attire. Printed on back, looks like an ink stamp: "D. H. HENDEE | PHOTOGRAPHER | I Street Bwt. 4 & 5 TH | EAST PORTLAND, OGN." Handwritten on back: " Nellie 16 John 30 Metzger". People: Metzger, Eliza Ellen "Nellie" Metzger, John Hendee, Denney H.
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- Identifier
- ghs0265
- Description
- Black and white cabinet card photo, taken in studio. Oval portrait of John and Nellie Metzger. John is seated and Nellie is standing beside with arms resting on his shoulder. Both formally dressed in late Victorian attire. Printed on back, looks like an ink stamp: "D. H. HENDEE | PHOTOGRAPHER | I Street Bwt. 4 & 5 TH | EAST PORTLAND, OGN." Handwritten on back: " Nellie 16 John 30 Metzger". People: Metzger, Eliza Ellen "Nellie" Metzger, John Hendee, Denney H.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Date
- 1882
- Creator
- Hendee, Denney H.
- Subject
- Photographic studios
- Photographic prints
- Provenance
- John Metzger (1852-1929) and Eliza Ellen "Nellie" Winters (1867-1932) were married in 1882, when John was 30 years old and Nellie 16. Both were active members of Gresham's civic life, with John serving on the first Gresham city council in 1904 and later as city treasurer, and Nellie a charter member of the Rebekah Lodge, Neighbors of Woodcraft, and American Legion Auxiliary. They had seven sons.
- Type
- StillImage
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Print, Photographic
- Location
- Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
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