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Portrait of William Sumner Appleton

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Biographical: Appleton, W. S.

GUSN

GUSN-195368

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Description

A three-quarter portrait of William Sumner Appleton taken at the studio of Colonel Theodore C. Marceau at 160 Tremont Street in Boston. Marceau owned a string of photographic studios in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and several other cities.

Details

Descriptive Terms

three-quarter views
historic preservationists
studio portraits
men (male humans)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000484
AccessID 710
Other identifier HNEDID-000484

Physical Description

1 photographic print : black-and-white

Collection Code

PC004

Collection Name

Personal photographic collection

Reference Code

PC004.01.A.1775.01.001

Date Notes

1917

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Marceau, Theodore C., 1860-1922 (photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Other People

Appleton, William Sumner, 1874-1947

Other Organizations

Historic New England (Organization)
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities

Subjects

Tremont Street (Boston, Mass.)

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Biographical: Appleton, W. S.

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