Frances and Mary Allen Collection of Deerfield Photographs
Influenced by the arts and crafts movement, Frances and Mary Allen began taking photographs of their native Deerfield, Mass., in the mid-1880s. Displaying a finely honed pictorialist aesthetic, the sisters specialized in views of Deerfield and surrounding towns, posed genre scenes of life in colonial times, and the local scenery, earning a reputation as among the best women photographers of the period.
The Allen sisters photograph album contains ten gelatin developing out prints of street scenes in Deerfield, ca.1900-1910. Among these are two shots of the house they inherited from their aunt Kate in 1895, which thereafter became their home and studio.
Subjects
- Deerfield (Mass.)--Photographs
- Women photographers--Massachusetts
Contributors
- Allen, Frances
- Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941
Types of material
- Photographs