Edwin F. Atkins

Edwin F. Atkins

Atkins, Edwin Farnsworth, 1850-1926 --Photographs.

Atkins, Katharine W., 1860-1953 --Photographs.

Cienfuegos (Cuba)--Photographs.

Plantations--Cuba--Cienfuegos--Photographs.

In this photograph, taken in 1923, Edwin Atkins is sitting in the gardens at Soledad, wearing a black armband on his left arm. Earlier that year, his second son, Edwin F. Atkins, Jr., was killed in a plane crash off Key West, Fla. along with his two sons. Atkins is probably wearing the armband in memory of their deaths.From the Atkins family photographs, Photo. 37.3</dc:description>

unidentified photographer

Massachusetts Historical Society, www.masshist.org

circa 1923</dc:date>

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