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We believe that Sammul William Woodstock Jr., known as Willie by the family was born in 1873. His father (1801-1904) was a doctor and a noted naturalist and involved in Native American affairs beginning at mid-century. Here we see a CDV of Willie as a very young boy, 3 years & 9 months. We are not sure how to describe his outfit. We think that he is wearing a kind of skirted overcoat with a scalloped collar. He seems to be wearing a white tunic or dress underneath. He also has pantalettes, dark long stockings and high-top shoes. The studio was Suddards & Fennemore, Philadelphia. As a young man he went to Jefferson Medical College and was in the Class of 1895. After graduation he pursued a double career in medicine and in art. He was a physician through the end of World War I, during which he served as medical director for the Red Cross in Southern France. fter the war he left the field of medicine and became director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which post he held until 1928. His hobby was collecting 18th century furniture and silverware and his intense interest in early American craftsmanship and odd topics of art won him a high reputation in Philadelphia circles as art expert and antiquarian.
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