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1900-1933
GUSN-12702
Color photo of a seaside town. Birds-eye view of buildings on the right, water at the left. Clear blue sky. Backed with brown paper. Molded wood frame, gilded over black paint, under glass with a white mat.
seascapes
photographs
gesso
glass (material)
hand coloring
paper (fiber product)
photographs
wood (plant material)
oceans
towns
Unidentified Paper
Gesso
Unidentified Photograph
Glass
Hand Colored
Town Scene
Ocean
PICTURE, SEASCAPE
Signed on the mat under the photo in the right corner in pencil: P. Dowls. A sticker says: The Picture Shop Inc., 65 Bromfield St. Boston.
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
The Picture Shop, Inc. (Framer)
Dowls, P. (Photographer)
Boston, MA, USA
6.75 x 8.688 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1807
Massachusetts (United States)
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