Item 119: Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Ferrier Atherton, no date

Item — Box: 21, Folder: 119

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Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Ferrier Atherton, no date

Dates

Created: no date

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Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Colored Portrait Print

Condition Note:

Fair. Portrait paper backing is torn at the bottom.

Measurements:

8 ⅞ in. x 10 ¼ in.

Title:

Mrs. Thomas Ferrier Atherton, undated

Description:

A painting of a portrait of Mrs. Thomas Ferrier Atherton sitting with folded hands. Mentioned in the transcript, Melanie Parke Updegraff was the daughter of Melanie Atherton Updegraff and David Benjamin Updegraff. She was born on June 30, 1916 in Miraj, Maharashtra, India. Married to John Clinton Adams in June 1942, she had at least one daughter. She emigrated to New York City in 1930, eventually living in Oberlin, Ohio and later Manhattan, New York in 1940. Melanie died some time later in Lyme, Grafton, New Hampshire, in May 1986 at the age of 69.

Location:

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Transcription:

Mrs. Thomas Ferrier Atherton Portrait painted by Mlle. Gambarreau, His French lady who lived with Aunt Sarah after Uncle Thomas died. Mlle. G. taught dramatics + french to some of the young people in W-B - dud used them as models for his paintings she did on the walls of the big stone house in Wilkes-Barre - which Uncle Thomas built- and in which we lived + grew and which was later torn down- (Melanie Atherton Uydegraff)