238 •(HISTORIC HOUSES & LANDMARKS--MASSACHUSETTS)
A pair of beautifully assembled typological albums with 63 photographs of historic houses in Concord, Danvers, and Lexington by the architectural historian George W. Hersey.
With views of the house where the Salem Witch Trials took place; Plymouth Rock; the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Hawthorne's Wayside Inn; the Jonathan Page House; the monument for the Line of the Minutemen; "Elmwood," the house of James Russell Lowell; the John Alden House; among numerous other picturesque views. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 4 5/8 x6 5/8  inches (11.7x16.8 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso to grey pages, each with a caption, in white ink. Oblong 4tos, paper boards with the titles in white ink; glued bindings. Circa 1908
WITH--A handwritten and undated letter and list of historic Massachusetts landmarks by Hersey, a number of which correspond with the photographs in the albums.

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