Annie’s Valentine’s Day Postcard from 1904
Today, anyone can pay an online poster company up to $583 for a reproduction of Annie’s 1904 image and place it on a wall.
February Made Them Shiver
City leaders wanted to get President Harding’s attention about a coal shortage February, 1923. The plan: show him photos of cold kids lined up for a few chunks of coal.
Revisiting Annie Powell’s Obituary 73 Years Later
In the newsroom, her life was memorialized in their own way.
Michael Lally’s ancestors were neighbors of the Powell Studio.
Recently, the director of business operations at Lowell Cemetery read our Annie Powell social media posts and made a personal connection. Weren’t there photos taken by the Powell studios in his attic?
Annie Powell’s Tennis Holiday
Despite being from a poor English family, she always had a camera.
Cross Atlantic Scandal and Compassion
Ahead of her husband and amidst a family scandal, she apparently boarded the S.S. Samaria in June, 1891, leaving Liverpool for Boston. She became the family escort in crossing the high seas.
Annie and William Morris
When I began working on the Annie Powell
I found myself posed with a design problem as opposed to a curatorial one:
What should an Annie Powell poster look like?
Do these faces match?
Our Valentine’s Day
featured a charming German-published postcard. I attributed it to Annie Powell but when I saw the image three years ago, her authorship was not obvious.
Biographical research and facial recognition software link a haunting image to Annie’s family to her personal spiritual beliefs.
Annie Powell overview presented to Lowell Historial Society annual meeting, May 2023.
A different Lowell photographer has been associated with this compelling image of poor housing conditions in Lowell taken in 1912. However, the use of the phrase “dangerous galleries” hand written on the front of the image may be evidence of Annie Powell’s work. (Image courtesy of Harvard University)