Old [Colonel William] Lee mansion, Marblehead, Mass. – Historic Reproduction
![Old [Colonel William] Lee mansion, Marblehead, Mass., c1906. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/42/423b6db43dd3-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Old [Colonel William] Lee mansion, Marblehead, Mass. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Old [Colonel William] Lee mansion, Marblehead, Mass.
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The Old Colonel William Lee mansion stands in Marblehead, a fishing and shipping town on Massachusetts Bay that was among the more active ports of colonial New England. Lee, a merchant and militia colonel, built the house in the late 1760s, when Marblehead's maritime trade made its wealthier families prosperous. This c1906 view comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled the country recording towns, landmarks and historic houses. By the early twentieth century, many colonial-era homes like this one were becoming objects of antiquarian interest, and the photograph captures the building as it was seen then, with its age already part of its appeal.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30428. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018883. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Dwellings.United States--Massachusetts--Marblehead. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 789 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-62354 |
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