Eight Postcards Showing Historic Homes in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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- Seller
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Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Tichnor Brothers, 1910. Eight color , split back postcards showing historic homes in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Includes the Assembly House at the corner of Vaughand and Raitts Court, built 1750; Stoodley Tavern; Old Jackson House, built 1664; Governor Benning Wentworth House, built in 1750 and described by Longfellow in "Tales of a Wayside Inn"; Home for Aged Women, where Richard Shortbridge was imprisoned by order of Governor Burning Wentworth in 1782 when the French fleet was in the harbor; the Wendell and Tibbetts homes; Old Ladd House, owned by the DAR; and the birthplace of Colonel Tobias Lear, Washington's private secretary from 1783 to 1799, who hosted Washington here for a visit in 1798. Standard postcard backing. Each 3 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. VG, a few cards rubbed at corners.
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- Bookseller
- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17300
- Title
- Eight Postcards Showing Historic Homes in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Tichnor Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1910
- Bookseller catalogs
- ARCHITECTURE; POSTCARDS;
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Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
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Garrison, New York
About Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
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