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1880-1973, undated
GUSN-314703
Photo album titled "Altars and Reredoes." Title is hand printed on a round paper label affixed to spine. Album has a heavy textured dark brown covering and is held together with two metal brads. Album has 84 olive green pages; nineteen of the pages are blank. Album contains 65 mounted black-and-white photographs. One blueprint is also included. Photographs are of a variety of altars, reredoses and ecclesiastical carvings manufactured by A. H. Davenport Co., Irving and Casson, and their successor, Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. One prayer desk is also included. Order number and year are displayed in some photographs. Some customer names are also present. Other customers were identified by cross referencing order numbers and years to other items in the collection where the customer name is known. Identified customers include: Church of the Annunciation; Church of the Ascension (Montgomery, AL); Church of the Covenant (Erie, PA); Mrs. James C. Farrell (Gloucester, MA); Fifth Avenue Baptist Church (New York, NY); Grace Church (Colorado Springs, CO); Novitiate of the Helpers of the Holy Souls (Chappaqua, NY); St. Aidan's Church (Brookline, MA); St. Andrew's Chapel of St. James' Church (Chicago, IL); St. Andrew's Church (Hyannisport, MA); St. John's Church (Beverly Farms, MA); St. John's Church (West Hartford, CT); St. John's P. E. Church (Winthrop, MA); St. Joseph's Chapel of St. Paul's Church (Brooklyn, NY); St. Luke's Chapel of Trinity Church (New York, NY); St. Mark's Church; St. Martin's Church (Providence, RI); St. Paul's Church (Duluth, MN); St. Paul's School (Concord, NH); and Trinity Lutheran Church (Fort Wayne, IN). Digital images of a selection of photographs from the album are attached to this record.
This album is related to a series of photograph albums in CC010; however, the volume number is not known.
altars (religious building fixtures)
reredoses (screens)
carvings (visual works)
prie-dieus (benches)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
photographs
photomechanical prints
1 photo album containing 84 pages and 65 photographs (11 x 15 1/2 x 2 inches)
CC011
Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection II
2011
CC011.009.003
Museum Purchase
11 x 15 1/2 x 2 (HxWxD)(inches)
Irving & Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. (Compiler)
A. H. Davenport Co. (American furniture manufactory, active late 19th-early 20th centuries) (Compiler)
Irving & Casson (Compiler)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
photographs
photomechanical prints
Item
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