Bonnie Brae Farms Photograph Album, ca. 1900-1910

Summary

Creator:

Hoyt, William H.

Abstract:

The Bonnie Brae Farms photograph album contains 36 images of a dairy farm in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts.

Extent:

36 photographs in 1 album

Language:

English

Authors:

Collection processed and finding aid created by Jakob Dopp, June 2024

Background

Scope and Content:

The Bonnie Brae Farms photograph album contains 36 images of a dairy farm in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts.

The album (15 x 23 cm) has black leather covers. Three labels are present inside the front and back covers including two from real estate broker William H. Hoyt, the album's presumed former owner. Many images include inscribed captions. The majority of images are exterior and interior views of buildings as well as landscape views while several portrait photographs are also present. Images of interest include views of the main entrance of the farmhouse, living and dining rooms, farmland being worked, the coach barn and southeastern grounds, a supplemental cottage, the farm barn, farm animals, the 500-ton ice house, the milk plant, the cow stables, a man bottling milk, and a group portrait of ten men (nine of whom are wearing white uniforms).

Acquisition Information:

Purchased from Holzman, March 2006. F-827.4 .

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Subjects

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Subjects:

Photographs shelf.
Barns--Massachusetts--1900-1910.
Cows--Massachusetts-1900-1910.
Dairy farming--Massachusetts--1900-1910.
Farming--Massachusetts--1900-1910.
Farmhouses--Massachusetts--1900-1910.
Interiors--Massachusetts--1900-1910.
Stables--Massachusetts--1900-1910.

Formats:

Gelatin silver prints.
Landscape photographs.
Photograph albums.
Portrait photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Snapshots.

Places:

Great Barrington (Mass.)