1884
HGO-01-001-O-E-203
GUSN-193749
A bound album of approximately fifty albumen prints, most 5 x 7 inches, exposed by Mary Devens in 1884. Some photographs are loose. Devens was a member of Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession.The majority of these images are dated and identified. Of particular interest are the interior views of: 344 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. and 101 Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass., as well as approximately six prints of an unidentified summer cottage. The interior photographs document decorative elements of the period, including wallpapers (see loose images and pages 11 and 13). This album's photographs are of particularly good pictorial quality. Images also include: views of Oxford St., Cambridge, Mass.; Memorial Hall, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.; Palfrey's [sic], Cambridge, Mass.; Petersham, Mass.; and York, Maine, including Chase's Pond and York Village.
interior views
landscapes (representations)
historic houses
wallpapers
photograph albums
black-and-white prints (photographs)
albumen prints
album number 51
1 photograph album; 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
PC009
Photograph albums collection
1952
PC009.051
Gift
Gift of Lois Lilley Howe, 1952.
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Petersham (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
York Village (York county, Maine)
Devens, Mary, 1857-1920 (Photographer)
photograph albums
black-and-white prints (photographs)
albumen prints
Cambridge, Mass
Boston, Mass
York, Maine
Petersham, Mass
Item
HGO-01-001-O-E-203
Homer, W., & Johnson, C. (2002). Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession, 1902. New York: Viking Studio.
Homer, W., & Stieglitz, A. (1977). Alfred Stieglitz and the American avant-garde. Boston: New York Graphic Society.
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