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Peirce bedchamber, Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1915

Location Note

Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House

GUSN

GUSN-195415

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Description

This interior view shows the Pierce bedchamber of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 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 studio no. 9041, "The Old Four Poster", except without the model in period costume.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bedrooms
houses
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
interior views
dwellings
sleeping and reclining furniture
beds (furniture)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Inscription

[South parlor chamber] / (North west?) (handwritten)

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000540
AccessID 759
Other identifier HNEDID-000540
Nutting studio number 9056

Physical Description

1 photographic print : black-and-white ; 8 x 10 inches

Collection Code

PC039

Collection Name

Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

Date of Acquisition

1916-04-26

Reference Code

PC039.USNH.03.021

Acquisition Type

Museum Purchase

Date Notes

Copyright date listed as 1915 in Richard M. Candee. Wallace Nutting's Portsmouth, 58.

Image Dimensions

8 x 10 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)

Record Details

Originator

Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 (photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Other People

Wentworth, Elizabeth Rindge
Wentworth, Thomas, 1740-1768
Gardner, William, 1751-1834

Other Organizations

Wallace Nutting Chain of Colonial Pictorial Houses

Subjects

Mechanic Street (Portsmouth, N.H.)
Architectural photography

Accruals Note

New Nutting studio number listed as 9056 in Richard M. Candee. Wallace Nutting's Portsmouth, 58.

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House

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