Historical Portrait
Booher Family
Archive record
1898 public-domain historical photograph of the Booher family on their parsonage porch in Mountain View, California. Methodist minister family portrait.
About this photograph
The photograph shows the Booher family on the porch of their parsonage in Mountain View, California, taken around 1898. The record identifies the head of the household as a Methodist minister.
Mountain View sits in what is now Silicon Valley, though in 1898 it remained a small agricultural community. The parsonage would have been church-owned housing provided for the minister and his family, a common arrangement in Methodist congregations of the period.
The photograph entered the public domain through California Revealed, a statewide digitisation programme that works with libraries, archives, museums and historical societies across California to make historical material publicly accessible online. The original was held by a local institution and digitised as part of this broader effort to preserve and share the state's documentary heritage.
The photographer remains unknown. Family portraits on parsonage porches were typical of the era, recording both the minister's household and his place within the community he served.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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