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Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives, 1899-1937 Concord Free Public Library — Special Collections |
Series IV – Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut, 1900-1937
Series IV (166 glass, 128 film) is organized into three subseries and arranged alphabetically by town and within town by date. Maine towns include Bar Harbor, Bridgton, Cape Elizabeth, Greenville, Hiram, Isle Au Haut, Monson Village, Old Orchard, Portland, Stacyville, and Wiscasset. New Hampshire towns include Dublin, Haverhill, Jaffrey, Manchester, Merrimac, North Conway, Peterboro, and Tamworth. Connecticut includes Hartford and Norfolk.
Subjects depict landscape features (natural and built), nearly a hundred botanical images, natural phenomena, and houses including pictures of the Wadsworth farm (Mrs. Gleason's mother's family). The series includes a few images of animals, monuments (Wadsworth Monument in Maine and Gen. Stark Monument in New Hampshire), portraits, and copies from other works.
Landscape features include Mt. Monadnock (NH), Mt. Washington (NH), Mt. Chocorua (NH), Mt. Uncannunc (NH), Mt. Katahdin (ME), Mt. Kineo (ME), Mt. Misery (ME), Pleasant Mt. (ME), Rattlesnake Mt. (ME), Fountain Woods (ME), and Shirley Woods (ME). Bodies of water include: Merrimack River (NH), Allegash River (ME), Moose River (ME), Penobscot River (ME), Wassataquoik River (ME), Lily Bay (ME), Kineo Bay (ME), Dacy Pond (ME), Moose Pond (ME), Squaw Pond (ME), Moosehead Lake (ME), Lake Winnepesaukee (NH), and Monadnock Lake (NH).
Mountain images include panoramic views of the Presidential Range (NH), the Peterboro Hills (NH), the Saco River Valley (ME), and the area around Rattlesnake MT. (ME). Images of Mt. Monadnock include views from "Thoreau's Seat," and shots of the site of Thoreau's probable camp in 1843. Natural phenomena include cloud effects, frost crystals, mists rising, snow arch, sunrise views, and sunset images.
Among Gleason's botanical images are Arrowhead, bunch berries, foxglove, goldenrod, Live-for-ever, painted trillium, Pickerel Weed, Prince's Pine, Rattlesnake Plantain, Sensitive Ferns, thistle ball, viburnum, wintergreen berries, and witch-hazel. Connecticut images include Elizabeth Park in Hartford. Many of the images in this series were used as Thoreau illustrations.