Hamilton watch box with outer card stock case. Hinged plastic cube with orange lined interior, metal border around lip of lid. Gold foil-wrapped outer case with white lid.
Painting: Framed under glass, charcoal enhanced photograph, laid down on cotton stretcher, Poor/Fair condition, water stained throughout, surface loss at corners, insect damage.
Painting conservation needs: Remove from frame, surface clean, reback with acid free materials, refit with spacer using UVF glass.
Frame: Poor/Fair, compo. loss throughout, 3" ornate gold.
Oval miniature portrait on ivory encased in glass of A. L. Evans by Jacob Eichholtz. Locket frame contains large viewable area in front with thin brass border. Rear of case contains a smaller oval viewing area intended for a lock of hair.
Presumed to be Alexander L. Evans (1799-1839), grandfather of Lilian S. Evans and father of Samuel Evans (father of Lilian). A.L. Evans buried in Donegal Presby. Church Cemetery.
Oval cased miniature portrait of young man, Samuel Evans, in blue outfit. Viewable in front with narrow border. Opening in back yields view of hair lock.
Provenance
Donor is the daughter of Samuel Evans (1823-1908) of Columbia.
Miniature Portrait of William Frazer, son of Judge Frazer in large gold frame. William was a lieutenant in the 3rd Artillery in the US Army in Seminole war. died in Lancaster in 1844. The original of this protrait was painted in 1842 by John Henry Brown and exhibited in 1912. This is a copy of that painting, painted by the same artist in 1844.
Another Miniature of William Clark Frazer was donated in 1976 by Virginia Moore Burk Dwight. See object files for 1976.999
