Why The Photograph Matters Today
Today the portrait is displayed in the Boston Heritage Museum as part of an exhibition about Victorian photography.
Next to the image is a simple plaque:
Rose Katherine Hartley
1894 — 1901
A six-year-old girl who loved singing in church and helping younger children in her building.
She died during a diphtheria outbreak that killed more than 30 children in her neighborhood.
Her parents commissioned the photograph for one reason.
So she would never be forgotten.
And more than 120 years later…
she isn’t.
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