Miller family home, viewed from an angle, Germanville, 1900

Item Overview

Title

Miller family home, viewed from an angle, Germanville, 1900

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

October, 1900

Date

1900-10

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of the Miller family home as it stood in Germanville in 1900. The house is viewed from a low angle. The front of the house faces towards the left with one row of 4 large windows on the lower level and another row of 4 smaller windows above them. Large trees stand in front of both visible sides of the dwelling. A fence extends at an angle upward from left to right in the foreground and then expands upward from right to left in front of the house.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 482. Germanville, Iowa. October 1900. [handwritten: checkmark] Mother and Uncle John Lemberger, mother's brother, by the pump. Other unknown. Think this is the Miller home. The log cabin shown here is all that remains of the original home of the Lembergers in Germanville - or on a farm close by. Mother told me once that her father was about the only one of the men at Germanville who could read English, and that when he would get a newspaper, he would mount a stump of a tree and read it to the assembled neighbors. 3 x [2 crossed out] 3 negatives

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

Iowa--Germanville

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Dwellings--Iowa--Germanville