Collection	Sawyer Family
Copyright	Oshkosh Public Museum
Description	Albumen print on Carte de Visite Mount of Mary Eleanor Jewell Sawyer. MARKS: "Webster & Walker,/Photographers/Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Inscription: "Sister Mary/Jan. 24, 1870/Taken 1869."
Medium	Cardstock/Photographic Paper/Ink
Notes	Thumb-print view of Mary Elanor Jewell Sawyer wearing a light colored dress and white blouse. She also wears ear bobs and a pin. Mary Elanor Jewell was born in Canaan, NY on July 3, 1842. Daughter of Henry Chapin Jewell; wealthy Oshkosh lumberman, Mayor of Oshkosh, and state congressman who came to Wisconsin in 1843 and Oshkosh in 1852. She married Edgar Philetus Sawyer on October 18, 1864. They had two children; Maria Melvina "Nia" Sawyer Chase and Philetus "Phil" Horace Sawyer. She died November, 1910.
Object ID	P2001.1.4
Object Name	carte de visite
People	Sawyer, Mary Eleanor Jewell
Place	Oshkosh, WI
Print size	2 1/2" x 4"
Subjects	Portrait photographs Female Pioneers
Title	Mary Eleanor Jewell Sawyer
Year Range from	1869
Year range to	1869

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