Simmons sisters [photograph], ca. 1854-1855.

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Simmons sisters [photograph], ca. 1854-1855.

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Hand-colored quarter-plate ambrotype in thermoplastic case of the Simmons sisters, daughters of Thomas Simmons and Sarah Homans Thwing Simmons. The ambrotype depicts, left to right, Sarah Mehitable Simmons, Elsie Thwing Simmons (later Adams), Mary Simmons (later Hunnewell), and Martha Simmons (later Homans). The photograph was taken ca. 1854-1855 by an unknown photographer. Enclosed is a poem written by the sisters about the ambrotype and signed by them.

1 photograph : ambrotype, b&w, hand-colored ; visible oval image 6 1/2 x 9 cm (quarter-plate), in case 12 1/2 x 10 cm.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7783891

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Adams, Elsie Thwing Simmons, 1831-1861

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z33533 (person)

Homans, Martha Simmons, 1836-1881.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60k27h2 (person)

Hunnewell, Mary Simmons, b. 1833

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jt0ws4 (person)

Simmons family

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67f1sw1 (family)

Simmons, Sarah Mehitable, b. 1827

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69039pf (person)