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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1915

GUSN

GUSN-195438

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Description

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph in the second floor hall of the Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume stands at the upper landing of the main staircase.

Details

Descriptive Terms

stairs
halls (interior spaces)
houses
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
models (people)
landings (stair components)
interior views
staged photographs
rugs
dwellings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
copy prints

Inscription

#5 (handwritten)

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000564
AccessID 782
Other identifier HNEDID-000564
Nutting studio number 9027

Physical Description

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

Collection Code

PC039

Collection Name

Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

Date of Acquisition

1939-05-15

Reference Code

PC039.USNH.03.003

Acquisition Type

Museum Purchase

Date Notes

Copyright date of 1915 appears on the recto of the photograph. Date listed as 1916 in Richard M. Candee. Wallace Nutting's Portsmouth, 43. Wallace Nutting Photographic Collection finding aid indicates that this is a 1939 copy print.

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
copy prints

Subjects

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

Variant Title

Wentworth-Gardner, upper hall

Description Level

Item

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