Judging from the date of the patent on the photograph envelope, image was probably taken at about the time of her marriage to Charles Luther Wittaker in 1868. The tintype is held by a Potter's Patent Picture-Card frame.
Description: Judging from the date of the patent on the photograph envelope, image was probably taken at about the time of her marriage to Charles Luther Wittaker in 1868. The tintype is held by a Potter's Patent Picture-Card frame.
Rebecca, matriarch of the Carroll family of Southwest Harbor, dressed in her best, stands at the corner of her property, at 7 High Road, the Levi Robinson / James Long / Rebecca Carroll House. Several of Rebecca’s children built houses that later filled the open fields between where she stands and the Congregational Church at 29 High Road.
Description: Rebecca, matriarch of the Carroll family of Southwest Harbor, dressed in her best, stands at the corner of her property, at 7 High Road, the Levi Robinson / James Long / Rebecca Carroll House. Several of Rebecca’s children built houses that later filled the open fields between where she stands and the Congregational Church at 29 High Road.