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Photograph

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1922-1949

GUSN

GUSN-54875

Description

View of 17th c. house w/ steeply raking roof, wood clapboarding and three chimneys in a rural setting.

Details

Descriptive Terms

photographs
gelatin silver prints
silver (metal)
houses
witchcraft
Silver Print
Seventeenth Century
House
Witchcraft
Print, Photographic

Inscription

Handwritten: ""Rebecca Nurse House/ Pine Street, Danvers, Massachusetts/ Acquired in 1927 by/ The Society For The Preservation of New England Antiquities/ As the Gift of the Rebecca Nurse Memorial Association/ Built about 1678 by/ Francis Nurse whose wife, Rebecca, was in 1692, hanged as a witch at Salem.

People and Organizations

Nurse House

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

17 x 21 (HxW) (inches)

Accession Number

1949.15X

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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