Description:
Beginning in the 1880s, Frances Allen and her sister Mary Allen began work as photographers after progressive deafness forced them to give up their careers in teaching. Working within the social aesthetic of the Arts and Crafts movement, they took photographs of houses and furnishings and created Colonial Revival pictures by asking their neighbors and friends to dress in period attire. Once praised as “The Foremost Women Photographers in America,” their prints were included in many of the significant early twentieth-century exhibitions and publications but since have been all but lost from view. Photograph on paper, image depicts three large and tall trees in the center and on the left, there is a small pine in the foreground, in the background are other pine trees, On reverse is the pencil inscription "Young Learner?/ 3.00/ present from Violet/ 21 Mar? 1923" and stamped on reverse in ink, "FRANCES and MARY ALLEN/ DEERFIELD, MASS./ All Rights Reserved" Condition: There is some glue and adhered paper on the reverse side where it was previous stuck to an album page. Some foxing and toning to the paper.
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