Becker Archives Database

Studio portrait of Leo Loeb.

VC137-i137003
Item
circa 1935

Part of E.V. Cowdry Photographs, Negatives, and Lantern Slides

Studio portrait of Nathaniel Harrington Cowdry.

VC137-i137078
Item
circa 1915

Part of E.V. Cowdry Photographs, Negatives, and Lantern Slides

Portrait of Alice Cowdry holding a letter at the foot of the front steps of a brownstone.

VC137-i137088
Item
circa 1910

Part of E.V. Cowdry Photographs, Negatives, and Lantern Slides

Exterior view of Vida Villa.

VC137-i137093
Item
circa 1917

Part of E.V. Cowdry Photographs, Negatives, and Lantern Slides

Handwritten caption on the back of the photograph reads: "Vida Villa, northeast corner."

E.V. Cowdry holding Edmund Vincent Cowdry, Jr. on a porch.

VC137-i137108
Item
circa 1921

Part of E.V. Cowdry Photographs, Negatives, and Lantern Slides

infant, possibly Alice Moira Cowdry, in the lap of Aline Cowdry.

VC137-i137112
Item
circa 1924

Part of E.V. Cowdry Photographs, Negatives, and Lantern Slides

Portrait of young E.V. Cowdry, Jr. at the beach.

VC137-i137116
Item
circa 1925

Part of E.V. Cowdry Photographs, Negatives, and Lantern Slides

Studio portrait of E.V. Cowdry as an infant.

Part of E.V. Cowdry Photographs, Negatives, and Lantern Slides

The photograph is mounted on a board. Handwritten caption on the back of the photograph reads: "Edmund Vincent Cowdry, aged 15 months - With love for dear Grandmama."

Alice Cowdry riding in a rickshaw, China.

VC137-i137128
Item
circa 1918

Part of E.V. Cowdry Photographs, Negatives, and Lantern Slides

Interior view of a staircase and banister with a newel post.

VC137-i137135
Item
circa 1920

Part of E.V. Cowdry Photographs, Negatives, and Lantern Slides

Exterior view of the Cowdry home, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

VC137-i137140
Item
circa 1925

Part of E.V. Cowdry Photographs, Negatives, and Lantern Slides

Group portrait of five domestic servents at the Cowdry home, China.

VC137-i137144
Item
circa 1918

Part of E.V. Cowdry Photographs, Negatives, and Lantern Slides

The men each have a handwritten number beneath their feet which corresponds to a caption on the back of the photograph that reads: "1 = Coolie; 2 = Wasli coolie; 3 - Cook - who 'squeezed' so, we won't have him again; 4 = Chang, no. 1 boy; 5 = rickshaw coolie. I wish they were plainer." The term "coolie" was a term implying an unskilled manual laborer or indentured laborer during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The term is now considered derogatory and/or a racial slur.