Frances and Mary Allen Collection of Photographs of Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1900-1910
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topic: Tree-lined lane
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topic: Deerfield Street (Stebbins)
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topic: Unidentified colonial house
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topic: Rear of Allen house, Deerfield
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topic: Tree-lined lane, with carriage in background
subject: Tree-lined lane, with carriage in background
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topic: Unidentified ivy-covered house
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administers: Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
provides access to: Frances and Mary Allen Collection of Photographs of Deerfield
provides access to: Tree-lined lane
provides access to: Deerfield Street (Stebbins)
provides access to: Unidentified colonial house
provides access to: Rear of Allen house, Deerfield
provides access to: Tree-lined lane, with carriage in background
provides access to: Unidentified Deerfield house
provides access to: Allen house and studio, Deerfield
provides access to: Deerfield Street
provides access to: Unidentified ivy-covered house

Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Frances and Mary Allen Collection of Photographs of Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1900-1910
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Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002
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Frances and Mary Allen Collection of Photographs of Deerfield
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date: 1900-1910
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produced in: Creation of Frances and Mary Allen Collection of Photographs of Deerfield
extent: 1 volume
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language: eng
origination: Allen, Frances.
has biographical history: Biographical History for: Frances and Mary Allen Collection of Photographs of Deerfield
acquisitions: Although details on the provenance are not available, the album was acquired between 1935 and 1947.
scopecontent: Scope and Contents of the Collection This small album contains ten photographs by Frances and Mary Allen depicting their beloved Deerfield, Mass., in the years shortly after the turn of the twentieth century. The majority of the images are artfully composed views of Deerfield Street and the colonial houses familiar to the Allens. Among these are two photos of the house the sisters inherited from their Aunt Kate Allen in 1895, which subsequently became their home and studio. The silver developing out prints, approximately 6x8" (15.5 x 20.5 cm.), are mounted on stiff gray cardboard mounts and bound inelegantly onto stubs with fabric tape.
access restrictions: The collection is open for research.
related material: Related Material Picturesque Franklin (Northampton: Wade, Warner & Co., 1891). Call no. : F72.F8 W2 1891 + A major collection of prints and glass plate negatives by the Allen sisters is held by the Memorial Hall Museum of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Historic Association, Deerfield, Mass.
bibliography: Bibliography Flynt, Suzanne L. The Allen Sisters: Pictorial Photographer, 1885-1920 (Deerfield: PVMA, 2002). Call no.: TR140.A45 F58 2002 +
processing: Processed by rsc, November 2005.
associated with: Women photographers--Massachusetts.
associated with: Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941.
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Allen, Frances.
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Biographical History for: Frances and Mary Allen Collection of Photographs of Deerfield
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body: Biographical Note As Frances Allen and her younger sister Mary gradually lost their hearing in the 1880s, they were forced to abandon their careers as teachers and find a new livelihood. They found that livelihood through photography, turning artistic views of local scenery into a long career that brought them international recognition and the reputation as two of the best female photographers of their day. The Allens were probably introduced to photography by their brother, Edmund, and they are known to have been taking images by at least 1884. The realization that photography held the potential for income came somewhat more slowly, but by the end of the decade, the sisters were accepting commissions and were publishing in works like Horace E. Miller's Sketches of Conway (1890) and Picturesque Franklin. At the time that the Allens were branching out in their new career, their native Deerfield, Mass., was emerging as a local center of the arts and crafts movement. Both Frances and Mary readily adopted the aesthetic and its nostalgia for the pre-industrial past, and their mature work shows the influence of like-minded pictorialist photographers such as Henry Peach Robinson. Specializing in views of Deerfield and surrounding towns, posed genre scenes of colonial life, and gauzy shots of the region's scenery, the Allens' work was included in a number of important exhibitions, including the Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition (1896), the 3rd International Congress of Photography, Paris (1900), the 3rd Philadelphia Photographic Salon (1900), the Canadian Pictorialist Exhibition (1907), and at the Art Institute of Chicago (1908). Although they are uniquely associated with the Connecticut River Valley, the sisters traveled occasionally, working as far away as Maine and Quebec and taking their camera on tours of England, Scotland, and Wales in 1908, and to California in 1916. After about 1918, poor health and poorer eyesight began to take its toll. Frances did …
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Tree-lined lane
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Deerfield Street (Stebbins)
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scopecontent: See Flynt, The Allen Sisters, p.19. Deerfield Street

Unidentified colonial house
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Rear of Allen house, Deerfield
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Tree-lined lane, with carriage in background
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Unidentified Deerfield house
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Allen house and studio, Deerfield
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Unidentified colonial house
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Deerfield Street
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Unidentified ivy-covered house
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