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. Large photograph on paper, image depicts a large, leafy tree with branches on the left hand side at the edge of a pond or body of water, this could be a scene from the Deerfield River, Condition: paper is toned, there are several areas of glue and adhered paper on the reverse where is was removed from an album or other piece of paper.
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