Detailed Information About

"Noon Rest"

inscription:

.01: Verso: wetstamp: "FRANCES and MARY ALLEN/ DEERFIELD, MASS./ All Rights Reserved"; graphite: "Noon Rest/ .50" "33002" .02, .03 & .05: verso, graphite, "Noon Rest/ .50"; wet stamp, "FRANCES and MARY ALLEN,/ DEERFIELD, MASS,/ All Rights Reserved." .04: verso, graphite, "Noon Rest/ .50/ .25"; wet stamp, "FRANCES and MARY ALLEN,/ DEERFIELD, MASS,/ All Rights Reserved." .06: verso, graphite, "Noon Rest/ 2.25"; "FR"; "This is the clearest print that could/ be found. Even the negative for a smaller version is fuzzy. Circa 1900/ The farmers' nooning or noon rest in the south meadows [crossed out]/ of Deerfield"; "back of Allens" [written above crossed out 'south meadows']

description:

Group of men sitting under tree in field with two horses.

references:

Listed in sisters' catalogs for 1914 and 1920. Exhibited in "The Light of Day: Allen Sisters' Photographs of Deerfield, 1885-1920" Deerfield Academy, 1997. Reproduced in "History of Deerfield" Volume I (1983 reprint) by George Sheldon.

keywords:

Agriculture, Crops, Food
Animals