inscription:
Recto, graphite, "Photograph from/ Mrs. Hildreth/ Dr. Willard/ The blind preacher"; Verso, ink, " Donor/ Josephine Starr/ March 1968/ Northampton." Wetstamp, "POCUMTUCK VALLEY/ MEMORIAL ASS'N./ DEERFIELD, MASS."
description:
Photograph of a c.1830 charcoal/graphite drawing. Portrait of man in half profile; high collar; eyes closed behind spectacles.
significance note:
Dr. Reverend Samuel Willard was the first pastor of the Unitarian Church in Deerfield.
references:
Illustration in Deerfield: 1797-1997: a Pictoral History, by Andrea and Robert Moorhead. Deerfield, 1997.
keywords:
ClergyDisabledMusicReligion