1915
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
GUSN-195388
Wallace Nutting staged this photograph in the entrance hall of the Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume walks down the main staircase beneath a molded elliptical arch into the entrance hall, resting her right hand on the railing and holding a garment that may be a scarf or shawl in her left hand. There are two rugs at the foot of the stairs. In the lower right corner, there is the copyright notice: "W.N. 1915." Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died in 1768. In 1793, Major William Gardner bought the house and lived there until he died in 1833. In 1915, Wallace Nutting purchased the house, restored the building, and added it as one of the five sites in his for-profit enterprise, the Wallace Nutting Chain of Colonial Pictorial Houses.
entrance halls
houses
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
interior views
dwellings
floor coverings
staged photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 000523
AccessID 730
Other identifier HNEDID-000523
Nutting studio number 9005
1 photographic print : black-and-white ; 8 x 10 inches
Paper finding aid available in the Library and Archives.
PC039
Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s
PC039.USNH.03.027
Copyright date.
8 x 10 (HxW)(inches)
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 (photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Wentworth, Elizabeth Rindge
Wentworth, Thomas, 1740-1768
Gardner, William, 1751-1834
Wallace Nutting Chain of Colonial Pictorial Houses
Mechanic Street (Portsmouth, N.H.)
Architectural photography
Her father's halls, Gardner House, Portsmouth
Item
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
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