Mary Harrod Northend was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the daughter of William D. and Susan Stedman Harrod Northend and a descendant of several old Massachusetts families. She suffered from poor health during her childhood and was not able to attend school regularly. Even so, she became interested in writing, honed her skills, and became a very prolific and popular author. She wrote on a wide variety of topics, mostly for magazines, but also penned eleven books. Miss Northend was a noted authority on colonial architecture and customs and had many photographs taken of old homes and antiques to illustrate her articles and books. Reportedly, she left a collection of over 30,000 pictures when she died. Unfortunately, the location of most is unknown, though Winterthur Museum and the Historic New England have a small portion of them. Miss Northend used a professional photographer to take many of her photographs. She died in her native Salem in 1926 from an operation necessitated by an automobile accident.
From the description of Glass plate negatives and photographs of architecture, interiors, furniture, and people, ca. 1900-ca. 1920. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 441862420
Mary Harrod Northend was born in Salem, Mass., the daughter of William D. and Susan Stedman Harrod Northend and a descendant of several old Massachusetts families. She suffered from poor health during her childhood and was not able to attend school regularly. Even so, she became interested in writing, honed her skills, and became a very prolific and popular author. She wrote on a wide variety of topics, mostly for magazines, but also penned eleven books. Miss Northend was a noted authority on colonial architecture and customs and had many photographs taken of old homes and antiques to illustrate her articles and books. Reportedly, she left a collection of over 30,000 pictures when she died. Unfortunately, the location of most is unknown, though Winterthur Museum and the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities have a small portion of them. Miss Northend used a professional photographer to take most of her photographs. She died in her native Salem in 1926 from an operation necessitated by a automobile accident.
From the description of Photographs, ca. 1900-1925? (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 261233097
