Identified as “Mrs. Riggs” this is likely Mary Elizabeth “Lizzie” Riggs (1871-1950) wife to William Wyman Riggs, both Kingfield residents. Lizzie Riggs posed for Chansonetta Emmons in the hollyhock filled Streeter garden in Kingfield.

As a woman, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons had unprecedented access to women’s lives and their trust, this image of Lizzie Riggs pouring water through a sluice helps to document women’s work in the twentieth century.

This image is likely part of a slide program compiled by Chansonetta Stanley Emmons to show audiences. Her daughter Dorothy Emmons is thought to have hand-tinted these lantern slides.