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Photograph of Hilton House, Wiscasset, ME

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1900

GUSN

GUSN-307909

Description

Black-and-white photograph of the Hilton House (where lodgers at Nickels-Sortwell took meals) burning. It burned ca. 1900. Photograph in modern black painted wood frame.

Details

Descriptive Terms

black-and-white photographs
photographic paper
wood (plant material)
paint (coating)
plate glass
Photograph
Print, Photographic
Print, Photographic

Associated Building

Original To Nickels-Sortwell House (Wiscasset, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

5 1/8 x 7 1/8 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Frances Sortwell

Accession Number

1958.429

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