Photographs

Artist Walter R. Merryman

Dateca. 1930

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Photographs
Photograph

Dimensions8.89 × 15.24 cm (3 1/2 × 6 in.)

MarkingsOn reverse: "Walter R. Merryman / 45 Kensington Avenue / Bradford / Haverhill, Mass."

Object numberPI0946C

DescriptionPhotograph of a plaque. Plaque (M901) was given in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Shepard Barrett (M901, Ph10) and once hung by the front door of the Concord Antiquarian Society. Inscription reads, "BARRETT / HUMPHREY BARRETT, in 1635, was one of the / Founders of Concord / COLONEL JAMES BARRETT / on the Nineteenth of April, 1775, gave command / to the Minutemen to march to the attack / at the North Bridge / The building of this house by the / CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY / was made possible in 1929 by gifts in memory of / MR. AND MRS. EDWIN SHEPARD BARRETT."

Miscellaneous photographs (Pi946a-g).

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