1895
HGO-01-001-O-E-106
GUSN-194169
This album includes thirty-five portraits and scenic views, including Hawthorne Street in Cambridge, Mass., a Casino boat house and gas works.
portraits
landscapes (environments)
boathouses
gasworks
hay
photography
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
album number 41-f
1 photograph album; 10 x 12 1/2
PC009
Photograph albums collection
PC009.041F
Gift
6 1/4 x 4 3/4 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of Miss Lois Lilley Howe
Ipswich (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Newburyport (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Howe, Lois Lilley, 1864-1964
Cambridge Photographic Club (Cambridge, Mass.)
Item
HGO-01-001-O-E-106
This is one of six albums documenting the work of members in 1885, 1886-87, 1889, 1893, 1894, and 1895. This is an outstanding record of the viewpoints and techniques typical of amateur photographers of the period. The albums are also intersting for viewing architectural subjects. Individual photographers are unfortunately unidentified. However, it is believed that the 1885 volume may represent the work of Lois Lilley Howe, better known as the first woman to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's School of Architecture. Howe was was also an amateur photographer. (Information supplied by Charles Sullivan, Director of the Cambridge Historical Commission). Also includes " A Short history of the Old Cambridge Photographic Club" by James A. Wells, 1903.
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