File information:

File name: Front: 5MilliesSittingRoomfront.jpg, Back: 6MilliesSittingRoomback.jpg
File format: JPEG, 96 dpi (High-resolution TIFFs archived at Madison Library)
File size: 631 x 1024 pixels

Item information

Black and White Photograph
Handwritten on front: Millie’s Sitting Room, House at Madison Corner
Date: undated, est. 1930
Size: 2 1/2 ” x 4 1/4 ”
Handwritten on reverse: “Rena gave Edie and I each a sampler to work. They look suited to the fire place. We closed up little bedroom + dining room for nearly two months. Kept 3 fires booming day + night, but water froze once. I owe a stack of letters. Lazy I guess.”

Note: Millie Pearson Burke and John Herbert Burke house still stands, 5 Conway Road on current map.

This photograph is part of the Roger Clayton Collection. Scanned by Joyce Stevens, August 21, 2012 from original in one of Roger Clayton’s Madison History binders. Copies of Roger Clayton’s Madison History binders, annotated collections of photos and other images, are in the Madison Library’s Local Collection.