Cohu Children’s Playroom, Gissa Bu 1930

installation, (Re)collecting an American’s Dream, Southampton Historical Museum

Photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt, Gissa Bu 1930

8 x 10 silver prints produced in 2007 courtesy Long Island Study Center at Hofstra University

Ssndrow discovered these historic photos in the collection of Long Island Study Center at Hofstra University.

(left) A hand carved life sized wood sculpture of a Rooster faces one of a Hen placed on either side of a window facing east to a rising sun and moon.

(right) A life sized painting of a Rooster courting his Hen who has just laid an egg, above the fireplace in another corner of this room.