Description: Nellie was sentimental about her life. The title for this photograph included a reference to her other cat, "Moses wants his picture too."
Description: The John Dix House is shown at the right of the photograph. The barn is shown at the left. Three members of the Dix family are visible near the doorway of the house, most likely Emily Bartlett Dix and two of her children.
Description: Probably looking from the top of one of the hotels to the water. Stereograph Date - c. 1876 Size - 7” x 3.5” Media - sepia photograph Title - Southwest Harbor, Mt. Desert, Me. Photographer - Benjamin West Kilburn (1827-1909) Publisher - B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, N.H. Number - 20400
Description: Left to Right: Franklin Henry Ward (1925-2008) William Eugene Ward (1934-2000) aka Willie Ingrid Ward (1929-) Unknown house in background.
Description: The house in the background is now the Nieman Foundation’s Walter Lippmann House at One Francis Street. It was built in 1836 by Ebenezer Francis, a carpenter and Harvard custodian. The street, of course, was named for him. In 1892, when Henry Lathrop Rand took the photograph while living at his mother’s house across Francis Street on the corner at 49 Kirkland Street, the Francis Street house was still listed on maps as the Eben Francis House. Harvard University bought the Francis property in 1974 and gave it to the Nieman Foundation. It was Christened as the Walter Lippmann house on September 23, 1979 with much fanfare attended by a raft of famous journalists and political persons. They celebrated by breaking a bottle of champagne on its front steps. Henry would have been fascinated. [show more]