[Tiger cat in an apple tree]
Photograph
[Tiger cat in an apple tree]
From the album [Snapshots from travels in the United States and Canada]
1920
Gelatin silver prints
Overall: 3 11/16 × 4 5/16 in. (9.3 × 10.9 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.1292.0089a
Inscriptions Written in ink on recto, BC: Fritz
Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: Fritz, a pet tiger cat up the apple tree which seemed to have been there always, & under which a hammock swung in summer. There was always a breeze there. Carrie said she did not know what they would do without that apple tree. I know they kept it as long as possible, and I think they should have planted another when it was gone. Trees grow. The home was owned by Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Schenck, N. Fairfield, O. Taken by A. Thomas Nelson in 1920. Mrs. Nelson, as a little girl, talked to Mrs. Higgins, Carries mother, who had gone to Orlando, Fla. to live, and well recalls those most enjoyable interesting talk. We were both visiting there and Carrie, Mrs. Daniel Schenck, was away. See both sides of the long sheet for further information.
Mr. Nelson was at Norwalk, O. ten miles away, convalescing. "Dan" was a cousin of Papa's, (Grant S. Price.) The Schencks later had another big yellow cat named Yellowhamer. Dan was always a moulder for the Harvey people. The foundry was located on the south side of the street near the center of town. It is gone with the hotel, street car line - and a row of buildings on the south side near centre of town, which burned. I recall my father coming in at Norwalk and saying that "all Fairfield must be burning". He could tell the position: (my grandmother Price who lived there, was perfect on directions also). The next day, a Sunday morning, we drove up and sure enough, the row was burned down. I, Catherine H. Price (Kathryn) (Mrs. Nelson), often wonder what became of the two cats, pets, when Dan got heart trouble, went into Belleview Hospital, N.Y.C. & then up the Hudson with Mrs. Schenck to Irvington-on-the-Hudson, where she finally found him dead. Fritz used to insist on crawling into bed getting right between Dan's knees to get warm in cold weather. As long as I can remember, the home, on the curve of? St., the one turning off from the one running east and west & leading to the cemetery, (was it Ashtabula St.?) - the home was owned by Dan and Carry Schenck. When my grandmother, Harriette Place, really La Place, & her 3 sisters were orphaned, they went to live with their uncle Thomas & his wife, Eunice Place. Eunice, the youngest sister was sent to her Uncle Daniel Shaw in N.Y. State. She was very homesick and returned but Uncle Daniel Shaw for whom Dan was named, left him $500. My Grandfather, Elijah Price Jr. insisted that Dan & Carrie buy this home, or the money would have soon been gone. Carrie was at the dinner my Aunt Eunice Schenck had for us when we stopped there after we had been married. (A.T.) A. Thomas Nelson saw rice in Carrie's pocket on the way to take the trolley that evening. She screamed when he suddenly spilled it all out on the bridge near the Sehenck's home. Carrie was the only one left and was at the cemetery (brought by her lifelong friend), Mrs. Marrie Lippert, when A.T. was interred at N. Fairfield, O. The Lipperts lived in the brown stone house owned at one time by my great great grandfather, Elijah Price, Sr.
I am told that there was a chair factory there at one time. (Before my time). My grandmother Price, Mrs. Elijah Price Jr. had a small rocking chair from that factory. Mrs. Burr Silliman, nee Laura Vandercook Baker, (a half cousin) admired it so much that I loaned it to her. When she died I was unable to get it from her husband Burr Silliman, a native of Fairfield, Ohio, but then living in Norwalk as he had, working for the Bell Telephone Co. for many years. I could never get a line on what had become of it, though I told him I wanted to give it to the Fairfield Historical Soc. where I felt that it belonged. This was not yet formed by "Charlie" Harvey, nor had he donated the oldest house in the town with money for it's upkeep, at the time I loaned the chair to Laura. I only hope that she derived much pleasure from having it. She was always "possessive" of things, but where ever it went, it would not be appreciated and would eventually be destroyed; if picked up by some antique dealer for a little bit of nothing, the history of it would be unknown.
There were undoubtedly many manufacturing activities at one time of which I never have known. I recall one business belonging to my uncle William Johnston. They made pins, or perhaps they were called hooks, but of wire or metal, then enameled, for lowering caskets. Celina Place Johnston was the wife of William Johnston. They lived in a very large house with a New England type folding door, 8 which folded into the wall, so that one room could be made of the drawing room and sitting room clear across the front. The drawing room was 16 x 20 ' but much as been changed. My grandmother, Mrs. Elijah Price Jr. Mrs. Johnston's sister lived next door. They occupied the last two houses west of the cemerary [sic] with the Johnston's meadow between hoses and cemetary [sic]. I recall A.T. looking at me as Papa was drive (to the cemetary) over the crosswalk between the houses and the Baptist church; the house where he had driven in so many times. With A.T., we came from the opposite direction, the east, thus coming to the cemetary [sic] first. There was Eunice Place for which Eunice the niece, daughter of Abagail was named. She became Eunice Schenck. There were 5 sisters: Gelina, Harriette, Henrietta and Eunice. One had died when 7 years old.
Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: Fritz, a pet tiger cat up the apple tree which seemed to have been there always, & under which a hammock swung in summer. There was always a breeze there. Carrie said she did not know what they would do without that apple tree. I know they kept it as long as possible, and I think they should have planted another when it was gone. Trees grow. The home was owned by Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Schenck, N. Fairfield, O. Taken by A. Thomas Nelson in 1920. Mrs. Nelson, as a little girl, talked to Mrs. Higgins, Carries mother, who had gone to Orlando, Fla. to live, and well recalls those most enjoyable interesting talk. We were both visiting there and Carrie, Mrs. Daniel Schenck, was away. See both sides of the long sheet for further information.
Mr. Nelson was at Norwalk, O. ten miles away, convalescing. "Dan" was a cousin of Papa's, (Grant S. Price.) The Schencks later had another big yellow cat named Yellowhamer. Dan was always a moulder for the Harvey people. The foundry was located on the south side of the street near the center of town. It is gone with the hotel, street car line - and a row of buildings on the south side near centre of town, which burned. I recall my father coming in at Norwalk and saying that "all Fairfield must be burning". He could tell the position: (my grandmother Price who lived there, was perfect on directions also). The next day, a Sunday morning, we drove up and sure enough, the row was burned down. I, Catherine H. Price (Kathryn) (Mrs. Nelson), often wonder what became of the two cats, pets, when Dan got heart trouble, went into Belleview Hospital, N.Y.C. & then up the Hudson with Mrs. Schenck to Irvington-on-the-Hudson, where she finally found him dead. Fritz used to insist on crawling into bed getting right between Dan's knees to get warm in cold weather. As long as I can remember, the home, on the curve of? St., the one turning off from the one running east and west & leading to the cemetery, (was it Ashtabula St.?) - the home was owned by Dan and Carry Schenck. When my grandmother, Harriette Place, really La Place, & her 3 sisters were orphaned, they went to live with their uncle Thomas & his wife, Eunice Place. Eunice, the youngest sister was sent to her Uncle Daniel Shaw in N.Y. State. She was very homesick and returned but Uncle Daniel Shaw for whom Dan was named, left him $500. My Grandfather, Elijah Price Jr. insisted that Dan & Carrie buy this home, or the money would have soon been gone. Carrie was at the dinner my Aunt Eunice Schenck had for us when we stopped there after we had been married. (A.T.) A. Thomas Nelson saw rice in Carrie's pocket on the way to take the trolley that evening. She screamed when he suddenly spilled it all out on the bridge near the Sehenck's home. Carrie was the only one left and was at the cemetery (brought by her lifelong friend), Mrs. Marrie Lippert, when A.T. was interred at N. Fairfield, O. The Lipperts lived in the brown stone house owned at one time by my great great grandfather, Elijah Price, Sr.
I am told that there was a chair factory there at one time. (Before my time). My grandmother Price, Mrs. Elijah Price Jr. had a small rocking chair from that factory. Mrs. Burr Silliman, nee Laura Vandercook Baker, (a half cousin) admired it so much that I loaned it to her. When she died I was unable to get it from her husband Burr Silliman, a native of Fairfield, Ohio, but then living in Norwalk as he had, working for the Bell Telephone Co. for many years. I could never get a line on what had become of it, though I told him I wanted to give it to the Fairfield Historical Soc. where I felt that it belonged. This was not yet formed by "Charlie" Harvey, nor had he donated the oldest house in the town with money for it's upkeep, at the time I loaned the chair to Laura. I only hope that she derived much pleasure from having it. She was always "possessive" of things, but where ever it went, it would not be appreciated and would eventually be destroyed; if picked up by some antique dealer for a little bit of nothing, the history of it would be unknown.
There were undoubtedly many manufacturing activities at one time of which I never have known. I recall one business belonging to my uncle William Johnston. They made pins, or perhaps they were called hooks, but of wire or metal, then enameled, for lowering caskets. Celina Place Johnston was the wife of William Johnston. They lived in a very large house with a New England type folding door, 8 which folded into the wall, so that one room could be made of the drawing room and sitting room clear across the front. The drawing room was 16 x 20 ' but much as been changed. My grandmother, Mrs. Elijah Price Jr. Mrs. Johnston's sister lived next door. They occupied the last two houses west of the cemerary [sic] with the Johnston's meadow between hoses and cemetary [sic]. I recall A.T. looking at me as Papa was drive (to the cemetary) over the crosswalk between the houses and the Baptist church; the house where he had driven in so many times. With A.T., we came from the opposite direction, the east, thus coming to the cemetary [sic] first. There was Eunice Place for which Eunice the niece, daughter of Abagail was named. She became Eunice Schenck. There were 5 sisters: Gelina, Harriette, Henrietta and Eunice. One had died when 7 years old.
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