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1916
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
GUSN-195419
This photograph presents a close-up view of the wallpaper in the dining room of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The design includes a bacchanal procession. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died in 1768. In 1793, Major William Gardner bought the house and lived there until he died in 1833. In 1915, Wallace Nutting purchased the house, restored the building, and added it as one of the five sites in his for-profit enterprise, the Wallace Nutting Chain of Colonial Pictorial Houses.
dining rooms
houses
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
wallpapers
interior views
dwellings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
ephemera
copy prints
#7 (handwritten)
DigitalID 000544
AccessID 763
Other identifier HNEDID-000544
Nutting studio number 9088
1 copy print : black-and-white ; 8 x 10 inches
PC039
Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s
1939-05-15
PC039.USNH.03.004
Museum Purchase
Copyright date listed as 1916 in Richard M. Candee, Wallace Nutting's Portsmouth, 65. Wallace Nutting Photographic Collection finding aid indicates that this is a 1939 copy print.
8 x 10 (HxW)(inches)
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 (photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
ephemera
copy prints
Wentworth, Elizabeth Rindge
Wentworth, Thomas, 1740-1768
Gardner, William, 1751-1834
Wallace Nutting Chain of Colonial Pictorial Houses
Mechanic Street (Portsmouth, N.H.)
Architectural photography
Wentworth dining room, detail of panel wallpaper
Item
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
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