Album 46-B: Photographs by William Sumner Appleton
Description:
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.