Foresters of America

Collection: This image is from the Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, print, and digital image.; Image is part of the Jacob F. Wieners Photographs

Date: ca. 1910; 1905 Material: unknown material on plate glass; gelatin silver print Dimension: 8 x 10 inches (glass plate negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Creator: Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Identifier: aql:11837 jfw-000338 jfw-000338.tif

Description: Members of a fraternal organization, the Foresters of America, pose for a formal group portrait outdoors, on the grounds of the photographer's studio. This is a view looking west. The men all wear ribboned medals bearing an antlered elk or deer head. Below the antlered head, each medal has an additional symbol: the man seated in center wears a pair of crossed gavels, the man standing second from the right wears a pair of crossed keys, etc. The men who are seated in the front row, third from the right and third from the left, also wear velvet stoles embroidered with the letters "O.G.C.R."

Title : Foresters of America

Collection : aql:11775; vital:1

Creator : Jacob F. Wieners, Jr.

Date : ca. 1910; 1905

Summary/Description : Members of a fraternal organization, the Foresters of America, pose for a formal group portrait outdoors, on the grounds of the photographer's studio. This is a view looking west. The men all wear ribboned medals bearing an antlered elk or deer head. Below the antlered head, each medal has an additional symbol: the man seated in center wears a pair of crossed gavels, the man standing second from the right wears a pair of crossed keys, etc. The men who are seated in the front row, third from the right and third from the left, also wear velvet stoles embroidered with the letters "O.G.C.R."

Subject : Foresters of America; Fraternal organizations; Portraits, Group

Relation : This image is from the Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, print, and digital image.; Image is part of the Jacob F. Wieners Photographs

Rights : Copyright holder unknown

Coverage : 14th Street (now 123rd Street) at 1st Avenue (now 14th Avenue), College Point, NY College Point (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : glass plate negative; black and white print; digital image

Format : unknown material on plate glass; gelatin silver print; 8 x 10 inches (glass plate negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:11837 jfw-000338 jfw-000338.tif