Details
Creator Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer.
Title [Halloween party, Doering family and friends in costume at the Doering residence, 1837 N. Bouvier Street, Philadelphia.] [graphic].
Date ca. 1897
Physical Description 1 slide: lantern; 8 x 11 cm.(3 x 4 in.)
Description Depicts eight people standing and posing in a corner, dressed in costumes for a Halloween party held by the Doerings in their N. Bouvier Street home circa 1897. Catharine Rupp Doering (left) is dressed as a man. The three boys have painted their faces black, but one is wearing a bonnet, the other a conical dunce cap. Two of the boys may be dressed as maids. A woman in the center wears a cloth covered with stars on her head.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Subject Doering, Albert Lindsay, 1892-1966 -- Portraits.
Doering, Karl, b. ca. 1889 -- Portraits.
Doering, Catharine Rupp, d. 1908 -- Portraits.
Costumes.
Masquerades -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Bouvier Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 1837.
Genre Group portraits -- 1890-1900.
Lantern slides -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.156]
Accession number P.9453.156