1907-1911
HGO-01-001-O-E-202
GUSN-193744
Album 46-A is one of two albums of mainly 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 prints taken by William Sumner Appleton, founder of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England). This album bears the penciled inscription: "volume 3, end 1907; winter 07-08, spring 1908" and includes approximately one hundred views of landscapes, streets and early houses. The geographic scope includes Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, and Salem in Massachusetts, Dover, Durham, and Portsmouth in New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Topics include historic buildings and houses, such as the Custom House in Salem and Wadsworth House in Cambridge, as well as the Chelsea Fire of 1908-9, dogs; and soldiers.
historic houses
historic buildings
landscapes (environments)
garrison houses
bunkers
colleges (institutions)
photograph albums
black-and-white prints (photographs)
albumen prints
album number 46A
1 photograph album; 10 1/6 x 13 inches
PC009
Photograph albums collection
PC009.046A
Gift
4 1/6 x 3 1/8 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Chelsea (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Salem (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Dover (Strafford county, New Hampshire)
Durham (Strafford county, New Hampshire)
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Newbury (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Appleton, William Sumner, 1874-1947 (Photographer)
photograph albums
black-and-white prints (photographs)
albumen prints
Appleton, William Sumner, 1874-1947
Chelsea
Chelsea Fire (Apr. 12, 1908)
dogs
soldiers
historic houses
historic buildings
fires
Chelsea Fire
Garrisons
Item
HGO-01-001-O-E-202
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