Photographs from Arthur G. Stivers (1855-1929) family album

Item

Title

Photographs from Arthur G. Stivers (1855-1929) family album

Date Created

1904 – 1907

Description

Images are: 1. 9th Street (now M. L. King Boulevard), Chattanooga, Tennessee, looking east showing the Read House on the left, Union Depot on the right and the L. J. Sharp Livery Stable in the distance; several carriages on the street 2. East Lake Park in Chattanooga, Tennessee showing several boaters on the lake; house in the distance is currently (2003) at 3208 36th Street 3. A tower of girls with Ruth Stivers in the middle of the bottom row; second from the top is Bertha Stivers, and at the top is Eva Newcomb (later Mrs. Winthrop T. Stivers) 4. Two little girls at the spring house in East Lake Park, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Photographs from a disassembled album, original order maintained. Contains local scenes and individuals as well as family trips showing Arthur G. Stivers, his wife Sarah Frances Pickens Stivers, older son Winthrop, younger son Frank, older daughter Bertha, and younger daughter Ruth, among others. The album consists of 42 sheets measuring 28 x 35 cm. (11 x 13 3/4 in.). Many images are silvering out.

Extent

4 photographs (1 sheet), b&w

Collection

Paul A. Hiener Collection (Acc. 318)

Subject

Street photography -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga.

Parks -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga.

Photography of families.

Portraits, Group.

Rights

Copyright Undetermined

Citation

Paul A. Hiener Collection (Acc. 318). Chattanooga Public Library.

Identifier

00002803

Type

Still image

Item sets

Paul A. Hiener collection, 1860-1984