ADA RADFORD

BY JOHN HAWKE

The black-and-white photograph of Ada Radford Wallas is presented within an oval shape, showing the sitter’s head and torso. The portrait shows a young woman with a serious face and her hair pulled back, facing the camera directly. She is wearing a beaded necklace around her throat, just above a white lace collar; the velvet yoke of her dress is gathered into puckers in her dress, which is in a dark shiny material.

MLA citation:

Hawke, John. Photograph of Ada Radford Wallas, Plymouth, circa 1897. Courtesy of The Principal and Fellows, Newnham College, Cambridge. Yellow Nineties 2.0, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2024. https://1890s.ca/radford_ada_portrait