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ca. 1880
GUSN-272190
This album includes one hundred two photographs of "Glenmary" in Newton Lower Falls in the 1880s. Glenmary was the home of the Crehore family. The album includes images of the house interior and the grounds, including gardens, fields, the Charles River, and outbuildings. Many of the images document domestic life in the 1880s, including images of recreational activities (tennis and card playing) and interior furnishings. Included with the album is an inventory of the photographs, all of which have been identified, as well as a glossary of family names and relationships. The images are arranged two-to-a-page, and are numbered in pencil to correspond with the inventory. See images 37 and 38 for details of the snuggery with a hookah pipe, swords, a shotgun, and snow shoes, an excellent example of bachelor quarters of the period. See images 43, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, and 53 for wallpaper.
exterior views
interior views
landscapes (environments)
gardens
hay
barns
tennis
hookahs
woodworking tools
snowshoes
wallpapers
photograph albums
album number 213e
1 photograph album; 10 13/16 x 14 13/16 inches
PC009
Photograph albums collection
1999
PC009.213E
Gift
Gift of Claude Lee, Richard Lee, and Frances Carlson, 1999.
Newton Lower Falls (Newton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts) [part of inhabited place]
Crehore family
photograph albums
Crehore, Mary Wyer (Loring), 1827-1898
Crehore, Elizabeth Tracey
Crehore, Frederic Morton, 1858-1919
Crehore, Charles Frederic, 1828-1898
Loring, Henry, 1792-1866
Loring, Mary Middleton, 1795-1876
Charles River
Newton Lower Falls
Glenmary
Snuggery
Hookahs
woodworking shop
snowshoes
card playing
Item
This is one of a set of Crehore family albums donated to Historic New England (then the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities) by Claude Lee, Richard Lee, and Frances Carlson in 1999. The collection of albums documents the Crehore family, their home in Newton Lower Falls, and their summer camp on Rangeley Lake in Maine.
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