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1916
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
GUSN-195386
Wallace Nutting took this photograph of the south parlor chamber of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Chairs and rugs are arranged around the room. Several hats and a hatbox lay on the furniture. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died in 1768. In 1793, Major William Gardner bought the house and lived there until he died in 1833. In 1915, Wallace Nutting purchased the house, restored the building, and added it as one of the five sites in his for-profit enterprise, the Wallace Nutting Chain of Colonial Pictorial Houses.This image is very similar to Nutting studio number 9023, "Feminine Finery", except without the model in period costume.
bedrooms
houses
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
hats
fireplaces
interior views
hatboxes
headgear
dwellings
chairs (furniture forms)
floor coverings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 000521
AccessID 728
Other identifier HNEDID-000521
Nutting studio number 3842
1 photographic print : black-and-white ; 8 x 10 inches
Paper finding aid available in the Library and Archives.
PC039
Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s
PC039.USNH.03.012
ca. 1915
8 x 10 (HxW)(inches)
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 (photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Wentworth, Elizabeth Rindge
Wentworth, Thomas, 1740-1768
Gardner, William, 1751-1834
Wallace Nutting Chain of Colonial Pictorial Houses
Mechanic Street (Portsmouth, N.H.)
Architectural photography
Nutting number 3842 is assigned to a photograph entitled Chas. N. Vilas, Jr. and His Military Friends in Michael Ivankovich, The Alphabetical & Numerical Index to Wallace Nutting Pictures, 211.
Item
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
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