Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2001.10.4 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Black and white photograph of the Cummings family siblings and wives sitting on the Great Stone Dwelling porch steps. Back row (l to r): Enoch Cummings, Henry Cumings, John Cummings. Front row (l to r): Juliette (Walker) Cummings, Ann Cummings, Rosetta Cummings, Arabella (Churchill) Cumings. |
Credit line |
Gift of Robert H. Leavitt |
Title of photo |
The Cummings Family |
Date |
ca 1899-1901 |
Photographer |
Churchill, Frank C. |
Place |
Enfield, NH Shaker Village, Church Family |
Print size |
5" x 7" |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |
Lexicon sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Interpretive information |
The five Cummings siblings came to the community with their parents in 1844. Enoch left in 1863 and married former Enfied Shaker Juliette Walker and Henry left in 1881 to marry Arabella Churchill who had left only days earlier. |
Linked documents |
See the museum's portraits page for more information about: Photo of Ann Cummings Photo and bio of Henry Cumings Photo and bio of John Cumings Photo of Rosetta Cummings Watch Shaker Stories, Shaker Lives: Rosetta Cummings on the museum's Youtube chanel. |