Friday Fotos (November 14, 2014) -- Ruth and Everett Carpenter, Part 4

This is the fourth and final installment in a series of portrait photographs of my maternal grandfather and his older sister as youths. The portraits were recently discovered among some family boxes in storage. These two portraits were obviously taken at the same sitting because Everett and Ruth are dressed in the exact same clothes in both photographs. 

The portraits were done at the Ye Rose Studio located in the Conrad Building in Providence, Rhode Island. It is believed that the portraits were done in about 1900 - 1901.  My grandfather looks to be about 8 to 10 years old and he was born in February 1891.  His sister Ruth was two years older than he.

The Ye Rose Studio opened in the Conrad Building on Westminster Street in Providence, Rhode Island in 1886. At first it was known as Rose & Sands specializing in "High Class Portraits from Cabinet to Life Size."  Later the studio went by the name Ye Rose and was well known for "cabinet card" portraits such as the ones shown here. 

Conrad Building, Providence, RI

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Scans from original portraits in the family collection.

For more information about Ye Rose Studio and cabinet cards, see https://cabinetcardgallery.wordpress.com/category/photographer-ye-rose/ 

Image of the Conrad Building from https://cabinetcardgallery.wordpress.com/category/photographer-rose-ph/

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Copyright 2014, John D. Tew

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