Strawbery Banke Presents
HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #77
Feel free to invent your own holiday story for this unlabeled image. The photographer has gifted us with a rare look inside a middle-class Victorian home. The wide hearth takes the place of a large-screen TV as family members gather. Note the affordable mass-produced fabrics, furniture and wallpaper. Although the women are comfortably reading and writing, the men appear anxious for the photo session to end.
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From HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH
Early Photographs from the Collections of Strawbery Banke
by James L. Garvin & Susan Grigg, Peter Randall Publisher
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