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1855-1925
GUSN-171254
The Domestic Interiors Photographic Collection consists of more than 2,500 images dating from the mid-1870s to circa 1920 and approximately 100 stereo views from circa 1860 to 1885. These photographs document interior design and decoration in the latter part of the nineteenth century. In many instances, the prints are enhanced with information about the occupants of the residence, the date, and the precise room shown. Boston interiors, particularly those of wealthy residents, are best represented, as well as other communities in Massachusetts, such as Beverly, Brookline, Cambridge, Concord, Roxbury, Salem, and Springfield, and other localities in New England, including Newport, Rhode Island and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.There is a wide variety of rooms depicted in the collection: ballrooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, entrance halls, kitchens, libraries, and parlors.Related collections of interiors are found in the Photograph Album Collection (PC009) and in the Codman Family Papers Collection (MS001). Source: Guide to the Library and Archives, 14-15.
interior views
houses
bedrooms
kitchens
parlors
halls (interior spaces)
dining rooms
music rooms
nurseries (rooms)
corridors
entrance halls
libraries (rooms)
stairwells
bathrooms
ballrooms
interior decoration
furniture
wallpapers
furnishings (artifacts)
coverings
home (concept)
dwellings
sleeping and reclining furniture
cookware
black-and-white prints (photographs)
stereographs
photographs
ephemera
ca. 2,500 photographic prints : black-and-white
ca. 100 stereographs : black-and-white
PC002
Domestic interiors photographic collection
PC002
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Connecticut (United States)
Maine (United States)
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Newport (Rhode Island island, Newport county, Rhode Island)
Vermont (United States)
Beverly (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Brookline (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Concord (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Salem (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Springfield (Hampden County, Massachusetts)
Haskell, Arthur C. (Arthur Cushman), 1890-1968 (Photographer)
Clark, William T. (Photographer)
Stebbins, N. L. (Nathaniel Livermore), 1847-1922 (Photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
stereographs
photographs
ephemera
Collection
The major portion of the collection is arranged alphabetically by the six states of New England and then by cities or towns. There is also a set of photographs of unidentified residences grouped generally by type of room.
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