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Exterior view of the House of the Seven Gables, Salem, Mass.

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Geographic / Mass. / Salem / Turner St. / House of the Seven Gables / Large: Unmounted.

GUSN

GUSN-194868

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Description

This view from across Turner Street shows the front façade of the House of the Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts. Two of the seven gables are pictured as are the picket fence and the sign above the shop door.

Details

Descriptive Terms

gables (architectural elements)
picket fences
houses
historic house museums (buildings)
American Colonial
exterior views
dwellings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000122
AccessID 178
Other identifier HNEDID-000122

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.2570.2860.001

Date Notes

1880s-1910s

Places

Salem (Essex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Northend, Mary H. (1850-1926) (photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Other People

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

Subjects

city life
Turner Street (Salem, Mass.)
Architectural photography

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Geographic / Mass. / Salem / Turner St. / House of the Seven Gables / Large: Unmounted.

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