1917-1918
HGO-01-001-O-E-202
GUSN-194206
Album 46-B is the second 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). It includes seven loose photographs of exteriors of various homes, as well as eighty nine snapshots of homes and buildings taken throughout 1917-1919. Locations and subjects include University of Virginia, Boston, Watertown, Nantucket, and Rhode Island. Subjects include historic homes and buildings and a parade on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.
Album 46-B album bears the penciled inscription, "vol 13--spring-winter 1917-1918; summer 1918; autumn, 1918; spring 1918. It includes (1917) "celebration for Joffrey, in Boston, with parade and crowd scenes; octagon houses, and Cape Cod houses.
parades
historic houses
octagonal plan
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
albumen prints
album number 46B
Album number 46
1 photograph album; 10 5/8 x 13 1/8 inches
PC009
Photograph albums collection
PC009.046B
Gift
3 1/2 x 2 1/2 (HxW)(inches)
Nantucket (Nantucket Island, Nantucket county, Massachusetts)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Charlottesville (Charlottesville Indep. City, Virginia)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Lincoln (Providence county, Rhode Island)
Watertown (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Waltham (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Rhode Island (United States)
Cape Cod (Barnstable county, Massachusetts) [cape]
Commonwealth Avenue Mall (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [park]
Appleton, William Sumner, 1874-1947 (Photographer)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
albumen prints
Appleton, William Sumner, 1874-1947
Nantucket, Mass
University of Virginia
Cambridge, Mass
Boston, Mass
Waltham, MA
Lincoln, RI
Watertown, MA
Octagon houses
Item
HGO-01-001-O-E-202
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