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Cooper Family Christmas Tree (1)

ca. 1890-1910

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Cooper Family Christmas Tree (1)
  • Title
  • Cooper Family Christmas Tree (1)
  • Creator
  • Dr. W.H. Cooper Family
  • Date
  • ca. 1890-1910
  • Identifier
  • 20100204-ocl-0352
  • Source Identifier
  • Cooper 3
  • Description
  • This image is one of three similar pictures taken of the Cooper family Christmas tree, most likely in their home at 571 Allegheny Avenue. The charming tree, a bit lopsided by today's standards, shelters an array of Victorian gifts, including dolls, a teacup and saucer, spoons (Harriet Cooper collected them), shoes, and a stuffed cat that reappears in another photograph in this collection. The blocks spell out 'C A T H A R I N E', the name of their intended recipient. Catharine was the Cooper's oldest child, born in 1897. Dr. William Henry Cooper and his wife, Harriet Lillian Bettes Cooper, lived in four different houses in Oakmont from at least 1897 to Dr. Cooper's death in 1925. They had met when Dr. Cooper was a doctor and professor at the Homeopathic Hospital of Pittsburgh, now Shadyside Hospital. Harriet had been a student nurse there, and was valedictorian of her class. They had four children: Catharine (born 1897), Charles (1899), Franklin (1905), and Caroline (1912). Charles Cooper's daughter, Caroline Carroll, presented the Oakmont Carnegie Library with 80 glass plate negatives taken by Dr. Cooper from approximately 1890-1910 in the winter of 2009.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Oakmont (Allegheny County, Pa.)
    Allegheny Avenue (Oakmont, Pa.)
    Doctors' Offices--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
    Christmas--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
  • Source
  • Oakmont Carnegie Library Archives, Cooper Collection
  • Contributor
  • Oakmont Carnegie Library
  • Collection
  • Oakmont Historical Image Collection
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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