I went to school to be an archaeologist and realized digging in dirt wasn't as fun as it was when I was a kid. Now I dig in archives instead.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The Bitterman House


This picture probably dates from the same time as the family portrait taken in/about 1903.  The members of the extended Bitterman family are gathered at the Nuecestown home belonging to Levi Bitterman, who can be seen seated on the front porch of the home in this photo.  The matriarch of the family, Esilla (Rachal) Bitterman, is dressed in black on the upstairs gallery, standing between two of her Wright granddaughters.  A photo of the same house belongs to the General Photograph Collection in the Special Archives and Collections of the Corpus Christi Public Library, corroborating the identification of the photo as another image of the Bitterman family.

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