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Beauport

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1940

Location Note

album # 165a & 165b

GUSN

GUSN-194668

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Description

Beauport, "Gloucester, August 1940"

19 photographs mounted on black paper by an unidentified photographer, 1940. Spiral binding. The album contains chiefly interior views of rooms corwded with furnishings and various collections (16), but also depicts men looking out toward a ship as they lunch on the porch and a woman relaxing with two men on the patio by the sea. Staples securing the photographs to the pages have damaged adjacent images.

Details

Descriptive Terms

historic houses
interior views
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs

Additional Identification Number

album number 165b

Physical Description

2 of 3 photograph albums; 6 1/4 x 6 inches

Collection Code

PC009

Collection Name

Photograph albums collection

Date of Acquisition

1991

Reference Code

PC009.165B

Acquisition Type

Gift

Places

Beauport (Quebec, Canada)
Gloucester (Essex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

photograph albums
black-and-white photographs

Other People

McCann, Franklin

Subjects

Historic New England properties
Historic House

Descriptive Terms

Beauport
Sleeper-McCann House

Description Level

Item

Location Note

album # 165a & 165b

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