Item Details
Three Albums of Original Photographs by David Halliday of New England Beds & Taverns.
Boston: c.1890-1900. Limp faux leather cloth. Three interesting albums of silver prints, titled in typescript “Halliday Photographs - Volume VIII - Old Beds - Canopy Top”, “Halliday Photographs - Volume IX - Old Beds”, “Halliday Photographs - Volume XVII - Old Taverns”. In the case of the two volumes of beds, they were photographed in place with room details. Most/many owners & locations identified. Each album 12.5”x9.75”, typescript contents page + 48, 50, 51 mounted prints. Some wear to the covers, light soil. Vol. IX with plate 12 noted as ‘removed’ in pencil. Ex-library, with stamps on the back of the prints.
Bedrooms often served as the setting for the universal passage from cradle to grave. Most young mothers delivered their babies in a bedroom at home, with their own mother, sisters, or some neighbor women, and usually a midwife or doctor in attendance. Behind the New England doors of the bedroom raises questions of privacy, comfort, intimacy, and fashion that can be examined through objects as varied as bedsteads and coverlets, nightclothes and cradles, tin tubs and mahogany high chests.... A vernacular set of style and design from various examples of interiors and style of late 19th century Boston middle class families and social business. Very Good. Each album 12.5”x9.75”, typescript contents page + 48, 50, 51 mounted prints. Some wear to the covers, light soil. Vol. IX with plate 12 noted as ‘removed’ in pencil. Ex-library, with stamps on the back of the prints. Item #8025
Price: $1,200.00