Capt. Hanson Crockett Gregory, Sailor's Snug Harbor: portrait with doughnut
Description:
Copy print from a series of images of another alleged inventor of the doughnut who claimed he invented it using the round lid of a tin pepper box and subsequently imparted the idea to his mother who began cooking them and sending them around Maine where they became popular. Part of Blackington's story on donuts (see also Henry Ellis).
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