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The ancestral cradle

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

ca. 1914

Location Note

Wallace Nutting Collection: Massachusetts Hand Tinted: Folder E-H

GUSN

GUSN-195251

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Description

Photographer Wallace Nutting staged this scene of a model in period costume rocking a cradle on the hearth of a fireplace and a girl in period costume peeling apples in the Rugg-Dennett House, also known as the Rugg-Gates-Dennett House, in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Details

Descriptive Terms

hearths
cradles (children's beds)
hand coloring
staged photographs
infants
pets
apple (fruit)
sleeping and reclining furniture
floor coverings
families
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000383
AccessID 581
Other identifier HNEDID-000383
Nutting studio number 3076

Physical Description

1 photographic print : black-and-white, hand-tinted ; 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches

Finding Aid Info

Paper finding aid available in the Library and Archives.

Collection Code

PC039

Collection Name

Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

Reference Code

PC039.USMA.10.003

Image Dimensions

7 1/2 x 9 1/2 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Framingham (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 (photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Subjects

apple peeling
cats (domestic cats)

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Wallace Nutting Collection: Massachusetts Hand Tinted: Folder E-H

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