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ca. 1884
GUSN-29500
Photograph of the front of the Oliver Wendell Holmes house; three-story wood structure with projecting front entrance, gables, wood rail fence and tree-lined street.
photographs
albumen (egg white)
houses
medicine
poetry
Poetry
Albumen
Literature
Medicine
House
Print, Photographic
Carved: ""[recto]---1707--YE--OLD--HOLMES-/ HOUSE--1884"" Handwritten on verso: ""1922.385/ Given 24 May 1922/ by Mrs. George Edward Saunders/ 3 Concord Ave. Cambridge, Mass./ The frame comes from one of the old oak beams of the Oliver Wendell Holmes/ house, Cambridge, Mass.""
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Unknown
10 x 13 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
1922.385
Massachusetts (United States)
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