Women Talking Over Fence (2) | Historic Pittsburgh

ca. 1890-1910

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Title
Women Talking Over Fence (2)
Creator
Dr. W.H. Cooper Family
Date
ca. 1890-1910
Identifier
20100309-ocl-0397
Source Identifier
Cooper 48
Description
This wonderful image is one of two similar photographs that show Harriet Cooper, on the right, talking to her neighbors over the fence. Their gingham aprons suggest the women are taking a break from housework to chat, perhaps sharing news of their children or gossiping about some salacious event occurring in turn-of-the-century Oakmont. 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. It is unknown at what house this photograph was taken. 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
Source
Oakmont Carnegie Library Archives, Cooper Collection
Contributor
Oakmont Carnegie Library
Collection
Oakmont Historical Image Collection
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