Poley Family

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/11c6033b0982d8c7fcba1adecfeb621d

Title

Poley Family

Creator

Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)

Date

1890?

Description

Women, a man and children sit and pose beside a canvas and timber tent in Colorado. Sue J. Fr[e?]y wears a patterned dress and wire rimmed glasses and sits on a bench made of logs and arched sticks. Mary E. Ferguson sits on a wooden porch and wears a fitted jacket with front buttons over a long skirt. Margaret Ferguson Poley wears a pince-nez and a skirt with stripes and sits beside Elizabeth Ferguson Poley Schrader who wears a pleated, plaid skirt, a cotton or linen jacket with a wide pointed collar, a knit cap and holds a tree branch with dried needles and pine cones. Horace Swartley Poley wears a flat brimmed straw hat, a neckerchief and a jacket, and poses beside Frank Ferguson Poley who wears a hat with a rounded skull cap and a flat straw brim, and a double breasted coat with an oversized, pointed collar.

Subject

Families--Colorado
Photographers--Colorado
Spouses--Colorado
Tents--Colorado
Women--Colorado
Poley, Frank Ferguson
Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)
Poley, Margaret Ferguson
Schrader, Elizabeth Ferguson Poley

Source

Plains to Peaks Collective

Relation

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p15330coll22/id/66508

Type

image

References

http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15330coll22/id/66508

Date

1890?

Source

Plains to Peaks Collective

Subject

Families--Colorado
Photographers--Colorado
Spouses--Colorado
Tents--Colorado
Women--Colorado
Poley, Frank Ferguson
Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)
Poley, Margaret Ferguson
Schrader, Elizabeth Ferguson Poley

Citation

Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley), “Poley Family,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed July 31, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/14201.

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