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1890-1939
GUSN-171279
There are over 3,000 original negatives in the Halliday Historic Photograph Company Photographic Collection, most with corresponding original prints. Supplementary information about the dates of individual photographs is available from a small collection of the firm's published catalogues (located in Documentary box: Photography and Photographers).
The majority of the photographs are of Massachusetts towns and buildings that fit the criterion of historic. There are virtually no views of commercial blocks, late-nineteenth century buildings, or industrial developments.
Source: Guide to the Library and Archives, 8.
historic houses
historic buildings
American Colonial
black-and-white prints (photographs)
black-and-white negatives
ca. 3,000 photographic prints : black-and-white
ca. 3,000 photographic negatives : black-and-white
PC027
Halliday Historic Photograph Company photographic collection, 1890s-1930s
PC027
Massachusetts (United States)
Halliday Historic Photograph Co. (Photographic studio)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
black-and-white negatives
Architectural photography
Collection
The Halliday Historic Photograph Company was a Boston firm specializing in the commercial sale of architectural and scenic views whose emphasis is primarily on buildings and sites of picturesque or associational interest as relics of New England's Colonial past. Active from the 1890s until the 1930s, the quality of the firm's work was unusually high, both pictorially and for its documentary dependability.
Source: Guide to the Library and Archives, 8.
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