Boatswain Allan's [i.e. Allen's] house, New Castle, N.H. – Vintage Print
![Boatswain Allan's [i.e. Allen's] house, New Castle, N.H., c[between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/64/649859098dbd-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Boatswain Allan's [i.e. Allen's] house, New Castle, N.H.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Boatswain Allan's [i.e. Allen's] house, New Castle, N.H.
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Few things in this view are as specific as the name on its title: a house belonging to a boatswain, a petty officer who oversaw a ship's deck crew, which suggests the household had close ties to the sea. New Castle is a small town on Great Island at the mouth of Portsmouth Harbor in New Hampshire, a place shaped by its shipping, fishing, and coastal defenses since the 1600s. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this glass plate negative around 1900 to 1910, sold views of American towns and scenery to a growing tourist market, so the picture also captures how a quiet harbor community was presented to travelers of the time.
| Created / published | c[between 1900 and 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | 135" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071527. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Dwellings.United States--New Hampshire--New Castle. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 798 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-72862 |
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