The ancestral cradle

Item Information

Title:
The ancestral cradle
Description:
Photographer Wallace Nutting staged this scene of a model in period costume rocking a cradle on the hearth of a fireplace and a girl in period costume peeling apples in the Rugg-Dennett House, also known as the Rugg-Gates-Dennett House, in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Photographer:
Nutting, Wallace
Date:
1909–1919
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
PC039: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s
Subjects:
hearths
cradles (children's beds)
hand coloring
staged photographs
infants
pets (domestic animals)
apples (fruits)
sleeping and reclining furniture
floor coverings
families (kinship groups)
apple peeling
Felis domesticus (species)
Places:
Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Framingham
Rugg-Dennett House (Framingham, Mass.)
Extent:
1 photographic print : black-and-white, hand-tinted ; 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Link to Item:
https://gusn.us/195251
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Identifier:
195251
Call #:
PC039.USMA.10.003