The Domestic Interiors Photographic Collection consists of more than 2,500 images dating from the mid-1870s to circa 1920 and approximately 100 stereo views from circa 1860 to 1885. These photographs document interior design and decoration in the latter part of the nineteenth century. In many instances, the prints are enhanced with information about the occupants of the residence, the date, and the precise room shown. Boston interiors, particularly those of wealthy residents, are best represented, as well as other communities in Massachusetts, such as Beverly, Brookline, Cambridge, Concord, Roxbury, Salem, and Springfield, and other localities in New England, including Newport, Rhode Island and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.There is a wide variety of rooms depicted in the collection: ballrooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, entrance halls, kitchens, libraries, and parlors.Related collections of interiors are found in the Photograph Album Collection (PC009) and in the Codman Family Papers Collection (MS001). Source: Guide to the Library and Archives, 14-15.
