Emil Pearson (Glass-Plate Image)

All the glass-plate images I have posted thus far came from one box of approximately 5" x 7" plates, all taken by the same photographer, judging by the similarity of the plates themselves (and their subject matter), the envelopes they were stored in and the handwriting on those envelopes. Recently while poking around in the manila folders in the picture files at the museum, I came across a few more plates that (for the same reasons) I believe were taken by the same unknown photographer. Here is one of them.


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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

The handwritten notes on the envelope it is stored in read as follows:

No. 86
Name: Person, Emil
Remarks: Emil Eric Pearson — born in Hobart, on Lake Park Ave first north of Amtrack R.R. tracks on 27th July 1892. The youngest brother of Cecelia (Frank) Helin & Selma (Ernest) Strom, both residents of Hobart. Emil died in Algoma, Wisc. 25th of Nov. 1973.

So this is one of the children of Erica Pearson.

We've seen that fence before, haven't we? — that peculiar combination of picket and plank, with the evergreen trees beside it — here and here.

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[1/10/2012 update] Same photographer, same subject, almost the same pose.

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[3/27/2014 update] Thanks to Emil's grandnephew-by-marriage, Don Miller, we now catch a glimpse of the grown-up Emil, and of his wife, née Stella Mae Miller. (I do not know where or when they were married; it was sometime between the 1910 and 1920 censuses.)

These two photos were cropped from a group photo taken at a family gathering circa 1934, at which time Emil was about 43, Stella about 38:


Images courtesy of Don Miller.



Moving forward to about 1961, here we have Emil and Stella in their home on Pewaukee Lake in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.


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And here they are on a picnic in Pewaukee Park, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, in the early 1960s.


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