Whoa Nellie

Strawbery Banke Presents
HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #12

We don’t know whether Helen Newell could really play the banjo. We do know that "Nellie", seen wearing a garland of pinecones, was the daughter of photographer Lafayette V. Newell. Born in Barnstead, Newell married Annie Rider of Portsmouth in 1857. His photography shop on Congress Street created an incredible record of Victorian Portsmouth.

 

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From HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH
Early Photographs from the Collections of Strawbery Banke
by James L. Garvin & Susan Grigg, Peter Randall Publisher
(c) Strawbery Banke Museum . All rights reserved.

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