Cabinet card, Full-length portrait of Mabel Myer

Photograph, Cabinet

Accession Number: 2005.24

Description: Black-and-white photograph is mounted on a white card with gilt edges. It shows a young girl, Mabel Myer, standing next to a wicker seat. She is wearing clear wire-rimmed glasses and is wearing a dark knee-length dress, dark stockings, and buttoned-up boots. The photographer's name is embossed in the bottom margin. Handwritten notes on the reverse identify the girl as Mabel Myer, a student who later became a teacher, at the New York School for the Blind, Batavia, the daughter of Frank Myer and sister of Sam Myer. Mabel Myer is listed as a student at the New York State School for the Blind, Batavia in the school report for 1900.

Medium: Paper

Print Size: 6.5 (h) x 4.25 (w) in.

Date: [n.d.]

Photographer: Mead

History/Provenance: Museum purchased item through internet auction.

Subjects: Blind Children. Photographs. and Visually Impaired.