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Description
Photograph of Ella Harding Peffer (1887-1945) with one of two daughters, ca. 1912.
Ella Peffer, a native of Portland, auditioned for Crawford Peffer in New York City and was hired in 1908 to sing in "The College Singing Girls" for the Redpath Lyceum Bureau.
The couple married in 1910 at the Harding summer cottage at Falmouth Foreside. She and Katharine Ridgeway, also a retired Chautauqua entertainer, founded the Katharine Ridgeway Camp for Girls in Jefferson in 1932.
About This Item
- Title: Ella Harding Peffer and daughter, ca. 1912
- Creator: H. M. Smith
- Creation Date: circa 1912
- Subject Date: circa 1912
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photoprint
- Dimensions: 23 cm x 14 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1921, Box 1/2
- Collection: Crawford and Ella Peffer/Redpath Chautauqua collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Camps--Maine--Jefferson
- Chautauquas
- College Singing Girls
- Infants
- Katharine Ridgeway Camp (Jefferson, Me.)
- Mothers
- Peffer, Ella Harding, 1887-1945--Portrait photographs
- Redpath Chautauqua of New York and New England
- Redpath Lyceum
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