Balsams Hotel Employee Photo Album, circa 1912-1930 (bulk 1912-1916)

Archive

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Museum of the White Mountains

Name/Title

Balsams Hotel Employee Photo Album, circa 1912-1930 (bulk 1912-1916)

Entry/Object ID

MWM2018.0004.0048

Scope and Content

Black leather photograph album containing 95 black and white snapshots capturing employee life at The Balsams Hotel, a grand hotel located in Dixville Notch, N.H. The photographer and/ or creator of the album is unknown. According to the donor, the album may have been found in Beaver Lodge, the summer cottage on the lake where the Hale family spent their summers. Includes photos of employees, housekeepers, waitresses, butlers, chefs, kitchen and laundry staff, and other employees in and around the hotel. Employees are shown working, as well as engaging in recreational activities such as sledding, riding carriages and automobiles, hiking, and hunting Locations include the Balsams Spring House, the hotel's deer park, exterior views of the main hotel building and outbuildings, including the boiler house, barns, and staff housing. Also depicted is various scenery around the hotel in Dixville Notch in winter and summer, as well as two photos of the Crawford House. The bulk of the photographs are undated, but have been identified to circa 1912-1916. See MWM2018.0004.0048 for reference. Two loose photos tucked into the back of the album are identified on the verso as the "Vermont Cavalry at the Balsams, 1930."

Acquisition

Accession

MWM2018.0004

Source or Donor

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen and Gail Barba

Acquisition Method

Gift

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Album, Photograph

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Album

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Memorabilia

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Dogs, Winter, Farms, Agricultural buildings, Men, Livestock, Golf, Airplanes, Automobiles, Women, Hiking, Hotel employees, Hotels, Hunting, Mountains

Search Terms

Dixville Notch (Coos county, New Hampshire : inhabited place), Gloriette, Lake (Coos county, New Hampshire : lake), Crawford House (Coos county, New Hampshire : inhabited place), Crawford House Station (Coos county, New Hampshire : inhabited place), Balsams Hotel (Coos county, New Hampshire : inhabited place), Sleds, Carriages, Lakes

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1912 - 1916

Archive Notes

Date(s): 1912-1916

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

10.5 x 12.5

General Notes

Note

Notes: According to the donor re: how he aquired it: "Unfortunately, I have no definite recollection of how I acquired the album(s) pictured in your first attachments. I have a slight feeling that it/they may have been found in Beaver Lodge (the summer cottage on the lake where the Hale family spent their summers) which we eventually acquired and made into the culinary school headquarters." Status Date: 2020-06-19 Scan ID#: WM201900013 - WM201900134