Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2013.10.02201 A—C
Accession#:
2013.10
Credit Line:
Transferred from the Alaska State Historical Library.
Object Name:
Negative, Film
Title:
1960 Portrait of the Stewart Family —— Tom, Jane, Caleb, Elizabeth, Steve, Donna, Rebecca, and Mary
Photographer:
Joseph Alexander
Studio:
Alexander's
Place:
Juneau, Alaska
Date:
1960
Year Range from:
1955
Year Range to:
1965
Description:
Black and white photographic negatives of a family. From the left: Jane Stewart, the mother, is wearing a collared shirt and glasses. She is holding a baby Caleb Stewart (child #6). Elizabeth McMullen Stewart (child #3) is standing and wearing a long sleeved pattered and collared top with a buttoned romper. Tom Stewart, the father, at center with Steven McMullen Stewart (child #4) on his lap. Tom is wearing a suit and tie and glasses. The son, Steven, is wearing a long sleeved shirt with a logo on one pocket. Donna McMullen Stewart (child #2) is standing and is wearing a patterned dress. She has long hair over one shoulder. Rebecca "Becky" McMullen Stewart (child #1) is sitting wearing a sleeveless dress. She is holding her younger sister, Mary Stewart (child #5).



Film is Kodak brand.
Notes:
The 2013.10 collection was transferred from the Alaska State Historical Library in 2013. The ASHL Accession number was 1999—056. A copy of the ASHL collection guide is located in the accession file. This object came from "Box 1 of 6, Negatives, 1955—1963, 19. 60 pp" listed on the ASHL collection guide. The main box (box 1 of 6) was a cardboard banker's box and the smaller division was a Kodak 4x5 Film Box. The descriptions determined from writing on the Kodak Film boxes. Boxes were not kept.


Portrait of the Stewart Family —— Tom, Jane, Caleb, Elizabeth, Steve, Donna, Rebecca, and Mary.

Tom is sitting at center with Steve on his lap. Jane is sitting on the proper right with baby Caleb on her lap. Rebecca is sitting on the proper left with Mary on her lap. Elizabeth and Donna are standing. Mary married Larry Russo.

The Tom Stewart family history can be found in the "Gastineau Channel Memories, Volume 1" on pages 485—487. The 4 older children in the picture, Becky, Donna, Elizabeth, and Steven, were born to Jane and Robert McMullen. Jane married Tom Stewart in 1955, and they had 3 children: Mary, age 2 in the picture, Caleb, the infant, and Thomas, born in 1961, and thus not in the picture.
People:
Alexander, Joseph
Stewart, Tom
Stewart, Jane
Stewart, Caleb
Stewart, Elizabeth
Stewart, Rebecca
Stewart, Steve
Stewart, Donna
Stewart, Mary
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Portrait
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