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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1912-1914

GUSN

GUSN-195434

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Description

A hand colored exterior view of the three-story Federal-style Larkin House on Middle Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Also known as the Larkin-Ladd House, Larkin-Richter House, and Dr. Richter House, bookseller, publisher, auctioneer, and privateer Samuel Larkin built the house in 1815 with the proceeds from the sale of vessels captured during the War of 1812. Henry Ladd later owned the house. The front door is surmounted by a fanlight and set into an arched surround. A Palladian window in a blind arch crowns the front door. An eagle knocker adorns the front door. A wrought iron fence surrounds the property.

Details

Descriptive Terms

blind arches
Palladian windows
houses
brick (clay product)
door knockers
Federal
exterior views
hand coloring
dwellings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000559
AccessID 778
Other identifier HNEDID-000559
Nutting Studio number 931

Physical Description

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

Collection Code

PC039

Collection Name

Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

Reference Code

PC039.USNH.04.006

Date Notes

Date listed as 1912-1914 and ca. 1908 in Richard M. Candee. Wallace Nutting's Portsmouth, inside front cover and 63.

Places

Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)

Record Details

Originator

Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 (Photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Other People

Larkin, Samuel, 1773-1849

Subjects

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

Description Level

Item

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