Call NumberZ-8216CreatorFlach, Gustave A.Date1887SummaryStudio bust portrait of Mary Helena Wanless, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Wanless has short hair and curled bangs. Her dress bodice has a buttoned front closure and matching buttons on the lapels. She wears a bar pin over her collar and a frilled lace under collar. A large floral corsage is pinned to her bodice.Physical Description1 photographic print on cabinet card : black and white, albumen ; visible image 14 x 10 cm (5 1/2 x 4 in.) mounted in album page 26 x 31 cm (10 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectStudents--Colorado--Denver--19th centuryWanless, Mary HelenaDenver High School (Denver, Colo.)--StudentsDenver Public Schools--StudentsGeographic AreaDenver (Colo.)CollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR711008216Type of MaterialAlbumen printsBlack & white photographsCabinet photographsPhotographic printsPortrait photographsOriginal Material Found in CollectionC Photo Album 390. Denver High School, District Number One, Denver, Colorado. Album, class of 1887-1888Denver High School albumsNotesConstance Van Diest, class of '87 inked on verso. Cabinet card found on page 26 in C Photo Album 390. Cabinet cards are mounted in album page and identification is penciled on the album page beneath cabinet cards. Photographer's stamp on verso; photographer's stamp printed on cabinet card is partly obscured by glue. Title penciled beneath cabinet card: "Mary H. Wanlass" [sic]. Title from names indexed in: "Denver High School photo albums, 1887-1897," by Sharon K. Boatwright, M.A. in "Colorado Genealogist", vol. 60, no.4. R7110082160
Flach, Gustave A., Mary Helena Wanless (1887). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 17/06/2025, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1126178
