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Photograph

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1834-1867

GUSN

GUSN-11249

Description

Print of a landscape photograph, framed picture of the Old Gardiner Homestead, with handwritten text written on top and below of picture regarding the Gardiner Family history, with crest and armorial bearings of Gardiner Oxfordshire. Photographed by A.H. Folsom, 1870.

Details

Descriptive Terms

landscapes (representations)
photographs
paper (fiber product)
Unidentified Paper
PICTURE, LANDSCAPE

Inscription

Printed at bottom, ""Photographed by A. H. Folson. Office, 34 Bromfield St., Boston"" Handwritten all around picture, on top, ""Our Family Name correctly spelled = Gardiner = ""Gardiners of Oxfordehe Ad 1578"" - heraldic record."""" Handwritten all around picture, on bottome, ""North side Worchester Turnpike = Gardner Homestead = In Brookline Mass = Incorporated as 1705....""

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

16.5 x 19.5 (HxW) (inches)

Accession Number

1992.8

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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