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Croquet at Rotch Cottage, New Bedford, Mass.

Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Special Photos: Geo.: Mass.: New Bedford

GUSN

GUSN-194776

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Description

A group of young women and men play croquet on the front lawn of the Rotch Cottage in New Bedford, Massachusetts, with a view of the verandah and gabled central pavilion and doorway.

Details

Descriptive Terms

recreation
hip roofs
finials
gables (architectural elements)
bargeboards
façades
pavilions (building divisions)
doorways
oriel windows
porches
driveways
lawns (landscaped grass)
quatrefoils
Gothic Revival
chimney stacks
front (positional attribute)
exterior views
mallets (sports equipment)
croquet sets
croquet
scrolled pediments
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000066
AccessID 78
Other identifier HNEDID-000066

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.03.TMP.041

Date Notes

1897

Places

New Bedford (Bristol county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Other People

Rotch, William James, 1819-1893

Other Organizations

National Register of Historic Places

Subjects

croquet players
Irving Street (New Bedford, Mass.)
Orchard Street (New Bedford, Mass.)
outdoor recreation
sports & leisure

Descriptive Terms

7 Orchard St.
19 Irving St.

Accruals Note

designed in 1845

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Special Photos: Geo.: Mass.: New Bedford

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