Poley Family
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
Type
image
References
http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15330coll22/id/66508
Collection
Citation
Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley), “Poley Family,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed July 12, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/33628.
Added by Rebecca Keyel

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