Print, Photographic

Title:

"Hist. Soc. Concord, Oct."

Date:

1961-1961

Dimensions:

Print Size: 3.0 x 2.9375

Description:

This color photograph depicts former museum director Charles "Bud" Thompson and Bertha "Lillian" Phelps at the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord for a lecture. Bud wears a dark grey suit, white collared shirt, and red tie with pattern. Lillian wears a straw bonnet with pink neck cape, eyeglasses, and a green and black patterned dress with matching bertha with applied lace collar and brooch. She holds a paper bag in her left hand, which rest on the back of a chair. The room has light blue plaster walls, varnished vertical-bead board wainscotting under a chair rail, cream trim and dentil molding, and a pink carpet. Two gold leaf framed oil paintings hang on the walls. The room is set with several rows of straight backed wooden chairs. Stamped on the verso is: "This is a / Kodacolor Print / Made by / Kodak / January 1962 R." Handwritten on the verso is: "Hist. Soc. Concord / Oct (1961)".

Provenance:

Original location noted on catalog card: "Gift - 1986." Also "Ruth Whittier, Concord, NH/ 8/29/86."

Subjects:

Directors, Men, Sisters, Suits, Ties, Shirts, Trousers, Jackets, Bonnets, Neck Capes, Dresses, Berthas, Lace, Collars, Brooches, Eyeglasses, Paper Bags, Chairs, Carpet, Wainscotting, Chair Rails, Paintings, Frames, Gold Leaf, New Hampshire Historical Society, Lectures

People:

Thompson, Charles "Bud", Phelps, Bertha "Lillian"

Place of Origin:

New Hampshire/Concord/New Hampshire Historical Society

Collection Name:

Canterbury Photograph Collection

Item Number:

p0656

Type of Material:

Photographs

Copyright Statement:

For information regarding copyright, permissions, and reproductions contact the Canterbury Shaker Village

Participating Organization:

Canterbury Shaker Village