Lithograph

Title:

Mother's Joy

Object Name:

Lithograph

Object ID:

1957.036.033

Creator:

Unknown

Date:

circa 1880

Description:

Chromolithograph, Mother's Joy, unknown artist, c. 1880. Ink on paper. Woman walks barefoot with child on her shoulders. Dog follows her at left. Titled lower right in image: "MOTHER'S JOY." Mounted on white paper with blue geometric border. Handwritten ink inscription on reverse: Presented to Hattie F. Preston. / with the best wishes of her teacher / Laura E. Morgan." Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-10.95 W-8.95 inches

Provenance:

From the Noyes Family of Bow, NH
Laura E. Morgan was born in Bow, NH on Dec. 10, 1862 to Martha Jane Elliot Morgan (b. 1836) and Asa Morgan (1832-1913). She married Otis Clark Noyes (1859-1942) on Sept. 30, 1884. Between 1870 and her marriage in 1884 she was a school teacher in Hooksett. She died on Oct. 13, 1900 from pneumonia and childbirth.
This print served as a certificate of merit. Her student, Hattie F. Preston was born to James R. and Mary A. Preston in 1871 at Clinton, KS. By 1880, the family had moved to Manchester, NH. She married 1st William H. Brown (b. 1865) in Bow, NH on Dec. 25, 1886 and married 2nd Joseph A. Webber (b. 1868) in Manchester on Feb. 27, 1896. In the 1910 US Census she is living in Goffstown, NH.

Credit Line:

Gift of Adin M. Noyes and Carl O. Noyes

People:

Noyes, Laura E. Morgan (1862-1900), Noyes, Adin M. (1914-2000), Noyes, Carl O. (1893-1970)

Subjects:

Awards, Awards of merit, Mothers, Mothers & children, Religion