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ca.1886
HGO-01-001-O-F-406
GUSN-273048
A bound album including forty-nine mounted photographs and one loose photograph, including many cyanotypes. The photographs were taken by E. S. Dixwell, and they include images of houses and streets in Petersham, Mass., the Harvard Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., and interiors of 58 Garden Street in Cambridge, Mass. The interior views of 58 Garden Street show the living room, dining room, and kitchen, and exterior photographs document the house in different seasons and include gardens. Also pictured in this album are floral arrangements and church decorations. Many of the photographs have been identified and date from around 1886. Several of them show women identified as Miss Newham, Arria Dixwell Howe (Mrs. Archibald Murray Howe), Katie Howe, and Miss Althorp.
interior views
streetscapes
gardens
exterior views
flowers (plants)
photograph albums
album number 215B
1 photograph album; 10 3/4 x 7 inches; 1 loose photo
PC009
Photograph albums collection
2001
PC009.215B
Gift
Anonymous gift, 2001.
Petersham (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Dixwell, Epes Sargent (Photographer)
photograph albums
Dixwell, Epes Sargent
Howe, Arria (Dixwell)
Powderhouse, Somerville
Harvard Observatory
Cambridge, Mass
Petersham, Mass
Item
HGO-01-001-O-F-406
Photographs of 58 Garden Street and Cambridge, Mass. by E. S. Dixwell
Photographs of 58 Garden Street and Cambridge, Mass. by E. S. Dixwell
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