Dix House, Dixville Notch

Photograph

Museum of the White Mountains

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

MWM2018.0004.0062

Description

Exterior view of Dix House, the precursor to The Balsams hotel. Two women, one holding a baby, and two boys pose in wagon parked in the driveway leading to the hotel. Guests can be seen sitting and standing on the two floor balcony behind them. The woman is possibly the widow of the inn's builder, George Parsons. The photo mounting paper is stamped with the Centennial Photograph Co. Internation Exhibition logo; proprietors Edward L. Wilson and W. Irving Adams of Philadeplphia Pennsylvania. Note: the two women and boys in this photo can be seen WM202000305 and WM20200306.

Acquisition

Accession

MWM2018.0004

Source or Donor

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen and Gail Barba

Acquisition Method

Gift

Made/Created

Date made

1874 - 1895

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Driveways, Men, Roads, Trees, Inns, Women, Fields, Wagons, Hotels, Barns, Mountains

Search Terms

Dixville Notch (Coos county, New Hampshire : inhabited place), Dix House (Coos county, New Hampshire : inhabited place), Boardinghouses

General Notes

Note

Original or Copy: Original Status Date: 2021-03-17 Scan ID#: WM202100303