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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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fficiated before fame came to him as an author, and in aframe dwelling built with its side to the street, as so many ofthem are in New England, he had at last the happiness of hand-ing to his publisher the manuscript of a book that was to rousethe world—The Scarlet Letter. He has written much ofSalem houses, for he knew them well. An old structure stand-ing beside a burying ground, now known as the Doctor Grim-shawe House, from Hawthornes story, was the one in whichhe found his bride. Down by the river is preserved a buildingof the Seventeenth Century type called by common consentThe House of Seven Gables. If the real one of that namecannot be located, this is at least a proper substitute, since itlooks the part. That should be enough for any sightseer. We will take a snap at it and pass on through other smalltowns, each with its special interest, skirting the beautifulsandy beaches of New Hampshire until we come to Ports-mouth, just across the river from Maine. Here again we are 46
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THE LONGFELLOW-CRAIGIEHOUSE, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. GEORGE STEELE SEYMOUR. 47 in a literary atmosphere, for Portsmouth was the boyhoodhome of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and in his books, *The Storyof a Bad Boy and An Old Town by the Sea, he has putinto print all that is worth recording about the place that wasforemost in his youthful recollections. The Nutter House, as Aldrich called it and as the world willcontinue to call it, was the home of Tom Baileys grandfather.It is a typical specimen of its kind, standing close to the streetand having at its side and rear a real New England garden.House and garden figure in every chapter of the Story, andare shown in pictures also in the best edition of it. The placeis kept up as an Aldrich memorial and a small admission feeis charged. After visiting and photographing it one is sure toread the Bad Boy again, so intimately are they bound to-gether. Mr. F. Lauriston Bullard calls this house One of themost interesting literary shrines in the country, and s

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