Charles Emery "Peter" Boynton Richardson and John Billings Steele, Jr.

From collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Collection

Charles Emery "Peter" Boynton Richardson and John Billings Steele, Jr.

Photo. Copy of an 8" x 10" black and white photograph of Charles Emery "Peter" Boynton Richardson (1885-97`) (in the flat hat) and John Billings Steele, Jr. (1880-1911) in The Pool on Great Cranberry Island, taken about 1893 by Frederick Wesley Morse. (This photo and two others (1000.2.194 and 192) are accompanied by a note: "Merry Christmas 1990, Dear Gaile - I thought you might like to have copies of the three photos that I found in Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast. The little boy in the hat is, I believe, Peter Richardson. The photos were taken about 1893. Have a wonderful Christmas! All our love to you both, Jim & Isabelle" Storey.

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1893
Paper 
Good 
(See also Memories of a Maine Island by Marie Locke and Nancy Montgomery, Maine Fokllife Center, 1998.) Marie Locke of Portland is Fred Morse's granddaughter. She loaned GCIHS four prints for museum exhibit 2014.