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Ella Wheeler Glass-plates Negatives Collection
These glass plate photographs of Oswego and family trips to Michigan, Connecticut, and the Thousand Islands were taken between 1900 and 1910 by photographer Ella Merrill Crippen Wheeler. She was born October 31, 1859 within weeks of her father John Crippen’s death. Her mother, Sarah Roxana Hyde Crippen, passed away in Hastings, New York within weeks of Ella’s seventh birthday. Both are buried in Coit Cemetery on County Route 4 a couple miles before Highway 11 here in Oswego County.
