A woman identified as probably C.M. (Charlotte) Gates holds an infant in her arms. She is looking down at the baby, who appears to be looking at the camera.

Title supplied by cataloger. Probably C. M. Gates (Charlotte Gates) and son John Robert Gates. Charlotte Gates was the wife of Ernest F. Gates, a New London letter carrier involved in the Jibboom Club, a social organization for seamen founded by whaling captains in the 1870s, reorganized in 1891 and dissolved in 1959. Handwritten caption on album page: "11 weeks". Snapshot in album.

1925

New London (Conn.)

Infants
Children

photographs

Gates, Charlotte
Gates, John Robert

Source extent: 1 photograph : gelatin print ; 4 1/4 x 2 5/8 in.

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Accession number: 1989.73.7.141
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