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An arched hall

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

ca. 1914

GUSN

GUSN-195428

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Description

A view of the entrance hall and stairs in the Georgian-style Jaffrey House on Daniel Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume descends the stairs, which are covered by a runner. Two leather fire buckets hang from the arched wall. The right fire bucket bears "no. 2" and "1827." The walls are decorated with wainscoting and wallpaper. George Jaffrey, a New Hampshire Supreme Court justice, built the house on Daniel Street in 1730. The Museum of Fine Arts purchased the house in 1919 and removed two interiors and a cupboard. The house was destroyed in 1920.

Details

Descriptive Terms

stairs
entrance halls
houses
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
buckets (vessels)
interior views
staged photographs
runners (floor coverings)
dwellings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000553
AccessID 772
Other identifier HNEDID-000553
Nutting studio number 3350

Physical Description

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

Collection Code

PC039

Collection Name

Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

Reference Code

PC039.USNH.02.006

Date Notes

1917 or earlier.

Image Dimensions

10 x 8 (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

Jaffrey, George, 1682-1749

Subjects

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

Description Level

Item

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