Minnie Louise (nee Clift) Greene was the youngest daughter of John Atkins Clift, Chief of Police in Morristown in 1880. Born September 12, 1871, she married Robert E. Greene (sometimes spelled without an e) of Boonton, New Jersey at the age of 23. In 1894 the couple moved to Summit New Jersey where her husband set up a jewelry and watchmaking business. Around 1910 the Greenes moved to Speedwell Avenue in Morristown. By 1911, M. Louise Clift is listed in the Morristown Business Directory under Photographers at the Speedwell Avenue address. As one of Morristown's first business women, she ran her own studio and sold her own photographs. Even after the death of her husband in 1914, M. Louise continued to live and work in Morristown, eventually moving from Speedwell Avenue to King Street, then to Spring Place by 1938. It is believed that M. Louise Greene spent her final days at The Methodist Home for the Aged in Ocean Grove, New Jersey in the late 1940's.
This collection is composed of four black and white portrait photographs of cats. Two of the images are of a trio of cats and two of the images contain one cat. In all the pictures the cats have been placed upon either a pedestal or a table top.
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The photographs have been housed in a half size manuscript box.
The M. Louise Greene Photograph Collection is open for research under the conditions of the North Jersey History Center archives access policy. Items may be copied for use in individual scholarly or personal research, however, as with all materials in the North Jersey History Center, researchers are responsible for obtaining copyright permission to use material from the collection.
Gift of Phillipa Day Earley, March 1988.
M. Louise Greene Photograph Collection, circa 1911-1914. North Jersey History Center, The Morristown and Morris Township Library.
Finding aid encoded by Mary McMahon Dawson, 2008.