Delia Broderick (1895-1971) emigrated from Ireland in 1915. By 1927, she was a live-in servant for the John Henry Cunningham family on 53 Seaver St. She is shown here with the Cunningham’s youngest child, Ingersoll (1923-2020). Never married, she lived at the house for the rest of her life remaining, in her later years, a close friend to the widowed Theresa Cunningham, wife of John.

[Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, The Garden Club of America Collection, Archives of American Gardens.]