Marie Kendall took most of her photographs in Norfolk. With four children and a household to manage, she did not venture too far afield. In addition, her husband John’s medical practice likely kept the family close to home. So this photograph offers us a rare glimpse of the Kendall family on an outing to New York about 1890. The family would have boarded the Central New England train in Norfolk, lugging Kendall’s cumbersome view camera equipment with them. Passengers bound for Grand Central transferred to the Housatonic Railroad in Canaan for the four-hour trip to the city via Bridgeport. Kendall took this photograph from the top of the grand staircase in Central Park, looking down on Bethesda Fountain with John and the three children sitting on the rim. The photograph is among many that are included in the new book A Remarkable Legacy: The Photographs of Marie Hartig Kendall, published by the Norfolk Historical Society and available later this month.

—Ann Havemeyer

Photo courtesy of the Norfolk Historical Society.