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Framed letter

Collection Type

  • Manuscripts

Date

1900-1933

GUSN

GUSN-8043

Description

Plain wooden frame, painted black.

Details

Descriptive Terms

letters (correspondence)
frames (furnishings)
glass (material)
painting (coating)
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
Unidentified Paper
Glass
Painted
LETTER

Inscription

Label on glass: Photograph of a letter from/John Paul Jones to John Wendell/written after the first trip of/the famous 'Ranger' which was/built and manned by Portsmouth/men or men of the vicinity. The/letter is in the pocession of Mrs./Barrett Wendell./loaned by Mrs. Harry G. Vaughan

Associated Building

Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),

Associated Events

Ranger

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

15.25 x 18 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan

Accession Number

1949.362

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