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Halliday's Collection of Photographs of New-England Historic Buildings and Colonial and Provincial Houses, 1628-1700

1911

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Collection Summary

Creator:Halliday Historic Photograph Co., photographers.
Title:Halliday's collection of photographs of New-England historic buildings and colonial and provincial houses, 1628-1700
Dates:1911
Physical Description:30 photographs in 1 volume
Call Number:Photo. Coll. 157
Location:In the Massachusetts Historical Society Photo. Archives.
Repository:Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
library@masshist.org
Abstract:

This collection consists of one volume of photographs of historic homes and buildings in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire, taken by the Halliday Historic Photograph Co. in 1911.

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Collection Description

One volume of photographs of historic homes and buildings in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire, taken by the Halliday Historic Photograph Co. in 1911. Subjects include the Adams family house in Quincy, Mass.; the birthplace of Edward Everett in Dorchester, Mass.; and the Standish family house in Duxbury, Mass., among many others.

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Arrangement

The photographs in this collection are numbered in the order in which they appear in the photograph album.

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Acquisition Information

The Halliday collection of photographs of New-England historic buildings was acquired by the Massachusetts Historical Society by purchase in January 1962.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Photo #Contents
#157.1Manning House, Billerica, Mass.
#157.2Birthplace of [Oliver Wendell] Holmes, Cambridge, Mass.
#157.3Hunt-Hosmer House, Concord, Mass.
#157.4Fairbanks House, Dedham, Mass.
#157.5Pierce House, Dorchester, Mass.
#157.6Birthplace of Edward Everett, Dorchester, Mass.
#157.7Standish House, Duxbury, Mass.
#157.8Coggswell House, Essex, Mass.
#157.9Major Bradford House, Kingston, Mass.
#157.10Old Bell Tower, Lexington, Mass.
#157.11Peak House, Medfield, Mass.
#157.12Royall House, Medford, Mass.
#157.13Wellington House, Medford, Mass.
#157.14Coffin House, Nantucket, Mass.
#157.15Old Town Mill, New London, Conn.
#157.16Bradstreet House, North Andover, Mass.
#157.17Harlow House, Plymouth, Mass.
#157.18Jackson House, Portsmouth, N.H.
#157.19Adams House, Quincy, Mass.
#157.20"Dorothy Q" House, Quincy, Mass.
#157.21"Witch House," Salem, Mass.
#157.22Old Bakery, Salem, Mass.
#157.23Hill-Boardman House, Saugus, Mass.
#157.24Parson Capen House, Topsfield, Mass.
#157.25Col. Boardman House, Wakefield, Mass.
#157.26Brown House, Watertown, Mass.
#157.27Fort Halifax, Winslow, Me.
#157.28Deane Winthrop House, Winthrop, Mass.
#157.29Old Jail, York, Me.
#157.30McIntire Garrison, York, Me.

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Preferred Citation

Halliday's collection of photographs of New-England historic buildings and colonial and provincial houses, Photo. Coll. 157, Massachusetts Historical Society Photo Archives.

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Access Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in ABIGAIL, the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should search the catalog using these headings.

Persons:
Adams family--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Quincy--Photographs.
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 --Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Boston--Dorchester--Photographs.
Standish family--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Duxbury--Photographs.

Subjects:
Dwellings--Connecticut--Photographs.
Dwellings--Maine--Photographs.
Dwellings--Massachusetts--Photographs.
Dwellings--New Hampshire--Photographs.
Historic buildings--Connecticut--Photographs.
Historic buildings--Maine--Photographs.
Historic buildings--Massachusetts--Photographs.
Historic buildings--New Hampshire--Photographs.
Photograph albums.

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Send reference questions to library@masshist.org.
Collection processed by Megan K. Friedel, February 2004 .
Encoded by Kathleen J. Barker, March 2004


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