Buckminister House; Portsmouth and Vicinity

by Photographer Davis Bros

$75 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Portsmouth, N.H., ca. 1875 . Albumen print stereoview, 3.75” x 6.375” plus mount. Photographer’s credit at right edge, series name, “Portsmouth and Vicinity,” at left edge. Later annotations in ink at verso reading “The Buckminster House, NW on Islington & Bridge Sts. Portsmouth, N.H. Built 1720 by Daniel Wamer ? . Purchased 1792 by Col. Eliphalit Ladd 1744–1806 . In 1810, Rev. Dr. Jos. Buckminster mar. Ladd’s widow for his third wife.

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