Portrait of an elderly Eldridge with long white whiskers, head tilted slightly to his right. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented oval., Removed from frame. Gold gilt wooden oval. No design., Joseph Morgan Eldridge was Sewell Biggs' great-great- grandfather. Mr. Biggs also donated an original manuscript documenting Eldridge's indenture, at the age of six, to James Molony, a Philadelphia currier, in September, 1804. See Board Report of January 20, 1998., Gift of Sewell C. Biggs, December 12, 1997.
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9565.1]
