From collection Mount Desert Island Historical Society - Jean and Robert Fernald Collection
Helen Chick Silsby, studio portrait
Studio portrait of a woman. Unable to remove photo from album without damage. Identified as Helen Chick Silsby (wife of Brainerd) in hand printed tab on paper that is affixed onto page of the album. One of several photographs in a 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 red velvet/leather embossed photo album with metal clasp in good condition. Portraits of Jewett family, including two of Arno as a baby and a 2/3 yr. old. Silsby family, Charles Richardson, J. Herbert Patten M.D. , Johnson children; Rita, Bessie, Shirley and Laurence, Dewey, Ned. Other family names in album: Woods, Sumner, Short, Brigham, Brimmer, Gregg, Withee, Johnson. A number of the portraits are unidentified.
