OVP-M-08 - OVP0165.B.a
GUSN-202332
The dining room table is set with crockery in the image. A sword hangs above a portrait on the wall. The item verso has an account of the fire, the property history, and the valuables impacted from the Woburn News, May 1, 1897.
interior views
houses
tableware
furniture
dining tables
chairs (furniture forms)
wallpapers
swords
paintings (visual works)
dining rooms
tables (support furniture)
floor coverings
carpets
interior decoration
statesmen
governors
revolutionaries
politicians
albumen prints
photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)
Recto of mount: [printed:] ROOM IN SEWELL HOUSE, BURLINGTON, MASS., OCCUPIED BY JOHN HANCOCK AND SAMUEL ADAMS, WITH CROCKERY AND FURNITURE USED BY THEM, APRIL 19, 1775. [embossed with photographer's name:] C.H. Taylor; Verso of mount: {A gift to the N.E. Historic [sic] Geneologist Soc. by Leonard Thompson, Woburn, Mass. April 6, 1898) [attached caption, printed:] [reprint of a newspaper article published by the "Woburn News," May 1, 1897] [Dupe, verso of mount:] Presented to the Massachusetts Society Sons of the American Revolution, by Chas. H. Taylor, Photographer. 23 Pleasant St Woburn, Mass.
OVP Photo Database Number 120
OVP Number OVP0165.B
1 black-and-white print, mounted
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.01.TMP.165-B
13 x 10 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of Leonard Thompson, Woburn, Mass. To the N.E. Historic Geneologist Society; gift of the Society [?] to Historic New England SPNEA.
Burlington (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Taylor, C. H. (Photographer)
albumen prints
photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)
Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803
Architectural photography
United States History Revolution, 1775-1783
Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775
Fingerprint smudges and horizontal stains across verso of mount; small pieces of bottom left and right corners of mount missing.
Item
OVP-M-08 - OVP0165.B.a
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