Details
Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Title Aunt Phebe, Mcaboy's, N.C. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1890
Date March 27, 1890
Physical Description 1 photograph : glass negative ; negative 4 x 5 in.
Description Glass negative showing Phebe Mills, an older African American woman, sitting on the porch steps of the McAboy House. She is attired in a long-sleeved shirt with buttons down the front and a tie across the waist and a long skirt with ruffles at the bottom. She sits with her hands balls and folded in her lap and looks slightly to the right. Beside her on the step lies her striped bonnet. A white man, wearing a white beard and attired in a suit, sits in a rocking chair on the porch and looks towards her. Also visible is a shuttered window and an open doorway. Phebe Mills, born circa 1806, was married to Pauldo Mills, a farmer on the Columbus Mills Plantation. Originally owned by John Mills, this plantation was bought by Dr. Leland Reid McAboy in 1872 and became an inn known as the McAboy House.
Notes Same as last.
Time: 12:30 P.M.
Light: Fair sun.
Purchase 2001.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris.
Edited.
Subject Mills, Phebe, 1806- -- Portraits.
McAboy House (Polk County, N.C.)
African American women -- Portraits.
Hotels -- North Carolina -- Polk County.
Older people.
Porches -- North Carolina -- Polk County.
Portraits.
Women.
African American History
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Polk County (N.C.)
Genre Glass negatives.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1605]
Accession number P.9895.1605