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ca. 1886
HGO-01-001-O-F-406
GUSN-273049
An album of photographs taken by Epes S. Dixwell. It contains fifty-two black and white mounted photographs and cyanotypes and four loose photos, along with a note and envelope. Photographs include exterior and interior images of 58 Garden Street, views of Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard Observatory, First Parish Church, and Old Burying Ground. The photographs also include portraits of individuals who are presumably Wigglesworth and Dixwell family members.
The album is inscribed "Mementos of home for my dear May. Xs 1886" and signed E. S. Dixwell. In the front of the album is a note from Mary Wigglesworth dated October 7, 1903, bequeathing two albums to "Anna" containing views of 58 Garden Street taken by her father E. S. Dixwell. Also loose in the front of the album is an envelope, apparently reused and presumably which contained the note, and three photographs of children playing outside.
Photographs identifed by previous owner are: #3 58 Garden Street; #22 First Parish Church and Old Burying Ground Cambridge; #24 Harvard Observatory; #25 possibly house at Arsenal Square, Cambridge; #26 Fresh Pond; #27 Waterhouse House, Waterhouse Street facing Cambridge Common. Photographs on pages 28, 30, 37, 38, 40, 45, and 46 include wallpaper.
interior views
exterior views
churches (buildings)
portraits
wallpapers
photograph albums
black-and-white prints (prints on paper)
cyanotypes (photographic prints)
album number 215C
1 photograph album; 11 x 7
PC009
Photograph albums collection
2001
PC009.215C
Gift
Anonymous gift, 2001.
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Dixwell, Epes Sargent (Photographer)
photograph albums
black-and-white prints (prints on paper)
cyanotypes (photographic prints)
Dixwell, Epes Sargent
Wigglesworth, Mary Dixwell
First Parish Church, Cambridge, Mass
Harvard Observatory
Old Burying Ground, Cambridge, Mass
Item
HGO-01-001-O-F-406
Photographs of 58 Garden Street and Cambridge, Mass. by E. S. Dixwell
Photographs of Cambridge and Petersham, Mass. by E. S. Dixwell
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