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Maker(s):Shakespeare, William
Culture:American
Title:book: Tragedy of Othello.
Date Made:1883
Type:Book
Materials:paper, ink, textile, gilding
Place Made:United States; New York; New York City
Measurements:overall: 8 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in x 1/2 in; 22.225 cm x 13.335 cm x 1.27 cm
Accession Number:  HD 96.023.3
Credit Line:Gift of Daniel Ashley Stebbins
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Book titled "Tragedy of Othello," one of a set of seven volumes of plays by William Shakespeare with a red cloth binding with gold embossed lettering, which was owned by Gertrude G. Porter Ashley (1858-1936), the wife of Charles Hart Ashley (1860-1925). In 1895, Charles Hart Ashley inherited the Ashely house and lot in Deerfield from his uncle, Jonathan Ashely (1816-1895). The Ashley family continued to won the property until 1944 when Jonathan Porter Ashley (1890-1948), the son of Charles and Gertrude, was unable to maintain the farm, and the property passed to first Frank Boyden (1879-1972) of Deerfield Academy and then Henry N. Flynt (1893-1970), founder of Historic Deerfield.

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