John Nutting Farrar photographs, ca. 1875-1900.

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Fredricks, Charles DeForest, 1823-1894,. John Nutting Farrar photographs, ca. 1875-1900.

John Nutting Farrar photographs, ca. 1875-1900.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61200477

Photographs relating to New York City dental surgeon, inventor, and genealogist John Nutting Farrar. There is one cabinet card photograph of Farrar, taken ca. 1889 by Charles D. Fredricks of New York, N.Y., as well as three mounted photographs of the first typewriting machine developed in the United States, invented by Farrar in 1864. There are also three photographs of the Farrar family's country house and land in New Jersey, as well as two unidentified negatives that may also depict the property and one cyanotype of the Newton Centre Library in Newton, Mass. Most of the photographers are unidentified.

8 photographs and 2 film negatives in 1 folder.

Massachusetts Historical Society