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Contributor: Bonnie (Watts) Cook and John & Betty Hartman
Collection: Margaret Leonice (Needham) Still Collection (Code: HART)
Series: None
Item #: HART0001
Photographer: No photographer listed.
Physical Detail: To Be Added
Date: 1890s
Caption: Needham family, pictured [Left-Right]: BACK - Charles Fitch Needham and wife, Hawley Varnum Needham and wife; FRONT - Caroline Olivia "Carrie" Needham, Risa Loretta (Titus) Needham, Margaret Leonice (Needham) Still. One brother, George William Needham, is not present. Family stories say that he absolutely refused to go with the others to have his picture taken that day. Risa tied a previous photograph of him to her bonnet straps (over her left shoulder), so that his "likeness" would be included.

Description / Citation: Photograph of the Needham family, pictured [Left-Right]: BACK - Charles Fitch Needham and wife, Hawley Varnum Needham and wife; FRONT - Caroline Olivia "Carrie" Needham, Risa Loretta (Titus) Needham, Margaret Leonice (Needham) Still. One brother, George William Needham, is not present. Family stories say that he absolutely refused to go with the others to have his picture taken that day. Risa tied a previous photograph of him to her bonnet straps (over her left shoulder), so that his "likeness" would be included. Original, professional photograph, no photographer listed. The Margaret Leonice (Needham) Still Collection photographs were passed from Margaret Leonice (Needham) Still [1838-1912] to her daughter, Cricket (Still) Tubbs [1866-1955] to her daughter Bonnie (Tubbs) Watts [1906-1985] to her daughter Bonnie (Watts) Cook who owned, and with researchers John & Betty Hartman, shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Photo Archives Project in 2006.


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