MS Am 1272.2
Miscellaneous photographs of Celia Thaxter and Appledore Island (Me.) :
Guide.
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Last updated 2010 January 15
Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: b [Shelved with bMS Am 1272.1]
Call No.: MS Am 1272.2
Title: Miscellaneous photographs of Celia Thaxter and Appledore Island (Me.),
Date(s): ca. [1853]-1894.
Quantity:
2 boxes (1 linear ft.)
Language of materials:
Collection materials are in
English.
Abstract: Photographs of Celia Thaxter and her home on Appledore Island in the Isles of
Shoals, Maine.
Processed by: Melanie Wisner
Received from various sources at various times. Accession information is given with
the item entry.
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
Miscellaneous Photographs of Celia Thaxter and Appledore Island (Me.) (MS Am 1272.2).
Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Celia Laighton Thaxter was an American poet and essayist who lived much of her life
in the
Isles of Shoals (Me. and N.H.),
at first on White Island
(N.H.) and later in a large cottage her brothers built for their parents on
Appledore Island (Me.),
in which she eventually died. The
family ran a hotel,
Appledore House (Appledore Island, Me.),
which, along with Celia's cottage, burned in 1914. The cottage was home
to Celia's literary salon in summer months and was where she established her
renowned garden. She lived with her oldest son, Karl.
Arranged first by known photographers, then roughly by subject, moving from outdoors
indoors.
This collection of photographs portrays Celia Thaxter, her cottage and gardens,
Appledore House, and family members and others on Appledore Island in the
Isles of Shoals, Maine.
Another collection of photographs of Celia Thaxter and her home, some of which are
duplicated in this collection, is held by the Houghton Library (MS Am 1272.1).
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Chandler, Horace P., photographer.
[View of garden,
looking out to sea], undated.
1 photograph.
Moored ship is seen in the distance. Stamped on verso:
Horace P.
Chandler,
53 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass.
Acquisition Information:
*42-2413.
Given by Caroline Coventry Haynes,
1942
Mar.
-
Chandler, Horace P., photographer.
[Cottage : interior,
living room, ca.
1890].
5 photographs.
Slightly different views, each stamped on verso:
Horace P.
Chandler,
53 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass.
Acquisition Information:
*42-2412.
Given by Caroline Coventry Haynes,
1942
Mar.
-
Thaxter, Karl, photographer.
[Celia Thaxter
with her grandson,
Charles
Eliot Thaxter?
ca.
1889].
1 photograph.
Stamp on verso: Photo. by Karl Thaxter, Portsmouth, N.H.
Acquisition Information:
*42-2411.
Given by Caroline Coventry Haynes,
1942
Mar.
-
Thaxter, Karl, photographer.
Celia Thaxter
's room at Isles of Shoals, Appledore,
1891.
1 photograph.
Blind-stamped: Photo. by Karl Thaxter.
Acquisition Information:
*42-2412.
Given by Caroline Coventry Haynes,
1942
Mar.
-
Thaxter, Karl, photographer.
Celia Thaxter
's "corner" at Isles of Shoals, Appledore,
1892.
1 photograph.
Blind-stamped: Photo. by Karl Thaxter.
Acquisition Information:
*42-2412.
Given by Caroline Coventry Haynes,
1942
Mar.
-
[Celia Thaxter
in her garden],
1889.
1 photograph.
Inscribed on verso: John Brown & Agnes his wife, from Celia Thaxter,
Shoals garden Aug. 1889. With love.
Acquisition Information:
*42-2411.
Given by Caroline Coventry Haynes,
1942
Mar.
-
[Celia Thaxter
on the cottage porch among the vines],
1894
Aug. 16.
2 photographs.
Date written on verso of each.
Acquisition Information:
Removed from Portrait File, no source or date; and
*42-2411,
given
by Caroline Coventry Haynes,
1942
Mar.
hou00209