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Agassiz Family Portrait

Black and white photograph of a family having tea outside their home. Included in the image is their Chinese manservant, 1891.

Image courtesy of The Agassiz-Harrison Historical Society, 1992.036.001.

Agassiz family tea after a tennis game at the Agassiz Homestead, circa 1891. Front Row: Luella Agassiz Brown (holding Ted), Mary Caroline Agassiz, Constance Agassiz. Back Row: Edith Agassiz, Lewis Arthur Agassiz, Minnie Agassiz, Wing (their manservant), John Ruyter Brown. Despite living in a very rural area, the Agassiz family still led a British aristocratic lifestyle.