[Portrait of Sidney Taliaferro]

Archive record

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (carte de visite format) | Photograph shows a half-length portrait of Sidney Taliaferro (1854-1927) a former student and protége of Emily Howland. Taliaferro became a teacher at the Howland Chapel School in Heathsville, Virginia. She married Chester Boyer in 1883.

About this photograph

This carte de visite portrait from 1881 shows Sidney Taliaferro (1854-1927). According to the archive record, Taliaferro was a former student and protégé of Emily Howland and became a teacher at the Howland Chapel School in Heathsville, Virginia. She married Chester Boyer in 1883.

The photograph was produced by H.D. Garns & Co., though no further details about this studio are available. The circumstances of the sitting, Taliaferro's relationship with Howland, and the history of the Howland Chapel School are not documented in the archive record.

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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