P9221

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ID Number

P9221

Item Name

Image

Title

Jane Elizabeth Gray, Auntie & Bertha Wells / Jane Elizabeth Gray, Auntie & Bertha Wells

Title (Fre)

Jane Elizabeth Gray, Auntie & Bertha Wells

Description

Black and white photograph of three women, identified beneath the photograph as: "Mother, Auntie & Aunt Bert"; the three women are seated in a room, looking at a large book; the woman on the left is Jane Elizabeth (Wells) Gray, mother of the donor; she is wearing a dark dress with white around the neck; she is tilted toward the right to look at the book; the woman in the centre is an unidentified aunt of either Elizabeth or the donor; she is seated on a chair and holds a large book in her lap; she is wearing a light coloured , long sleeved shirt and is looking down at the book; the woman on the right, Bertha Wells, is shown in profile as she is turned to the left looking at the book; patterned wallpaper and lace curtains are visible behind the women.

History

Elizabeth Ure and George Wells lived in Sandwich and had four children: Jane Elizabeth, Bertha, William and Arthur. Elizabeth married John Vickers Gray and had two children: Dorothy Elizabeth and Margaret Helen (donor - later Mrs. Lawrence).

Place made

Canada - Ontario - Windsor

Collection Name

Museum Windsor

Subjects

Families / Familles

Gray, Jane Elizabeth Wells

Lawrence, Margaret

Reading / Lecture

Wells, Bertha

Women / Femmes

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