MATHEW JOSEPH STEFFENS
(page
4)
BY
"ELLIS"
7X9"
SEPIA PRINT - probably William Shewell Ellis, Philadelphia
Mounted
on heavy paper with blindstamp of Ellis. No date, but assume ca.1910-15
Possibly
daughter Laura Steffens
PRESS
ON PHOTO FOR KNOWN
PHOTO
OF LAURA STEFFENS
WHO
BECAME LAURA STEFFENS MULLGARDT
MATHEW
J. STEFFENS
MODERN
PRINT FROM ORIGINAL NEG
NO
DATE. ASSUME CA. 1910-15
Property
author
MRS.
J.J. GIBSON LIVED IN THIS HOUSE FROM 1919 UNTIL HER
DEATH
IN 1946. THIS LOCATION @217 E.CULLERTON AV., CHICAGO,
WHERE
THE MATERIALS RELATING TO M.J. STEFFENS WERE LOCATED.
GIVEN
TO ME BY MRS. GIBSON'S SON, J.C. GIBSON.
Location
is two blocks from the old Steffens studio.
Mrs.
Gibson was widow of J.J. Gibson,official portrait photographer
at
the Chicago Columbian World's Fair of 1893