Kate Mertz sitting in a chair at home, Palo Alto, 1898

Item Overview

Title

Kate Mertz sitting in a chair at home, Palo Alto, 1898

Photographer

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

Date Created

September 25, 1898

Date

1898-09-25

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of Aunt Kate Mertz sitting in a wicker chair in her home. She sits, looking directly to camera, with her hands resting in her lap. A painting hangs on the wall behind her at right. A doorway is behind her at left. Another door appears to stand directly behind Kate at center.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Palo Alto, Calif. September [handwritten:] ^ 25 [end handwritten] 1898. On the way to and from San Francisco to visit the Iowa soldiers going to Manila in the Spanish American War. I stopped off at Palo Alto to spend a day with Frances Nichols, a girl of my acquaintance, the attending Stanford University. 1. The Campus. Stanford University. 2. Some portion of the University. 3. Interior of the museum. 4. Stanford tomb. Visitors examining. 5. Aunt Kate Mertz, who was raising Fannie. Think Fannie's father was married a second time, and was living in Kansas City, and Aunt Kate had taken Fannie to raise. 5 negatives

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Mertz, Catherine, b. 1844

Location

California--Palo Alto

Resource type

still image