Frances and Mary Allen Collection of Photographs of Deerfield 1900-1910

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Frances and Mary Allen Collection of Photographs of Deerfield 1900-1910

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Influenced by the arts and crafts movement, Frances and Mary Allen began taking photographs of their native Deerfield, Mass., in the mid-1880s. Displaying a finely honed pictorialist aesthetic, the sisters specialized in views of Deerfield and surrounding towns, posed genre scenes of life in colonial times, and the local scenery, earning a reputation as among the best women photographers of the period. The Allen sisters photograph album contains ten gelatin developing out prints of street scenes in Deerfield, ca.1900-1910. Among these are two shots of the house they inherited from their aunt Kate in 1895, which thereafter became their home and studio.

1 volume; (0.25 linear ft.)

eng,

Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941

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Allen, Frances

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Frances B. Allen (Mrs. Otis Hood) was a member of the Radcliffe College Class of 1929. From the description of Speech, 1929. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009766 As Frances Allen and her younger sister Mary gradually lost their hearing in the 1880s, they were forced to abandon their careers as teachers and find a new livelihood. They found that livelihood through photography, turning artistic views of local scenery into a long career that brought ...