Stephen Salisbury III and Friends
Artist
Frederick K. Coulson
(American, 1869–1931)
Datelate 19th–early 20th century
Mediumcyanotype on cream wove paper
Dimensions24.8 x 29.2 cm (sheets), 25.4 x 20.5 x 2.0 cm (bound)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineEliza S. Paine Fund
Object number2010.271.70
DescriptionPhotograph from an album of 208 cyanotypes on cream wove paper.Stephen Salisbury III (second from right) stands in his garden marking the visit of Davis Casares (third from right), his friend from the Yucatan whom he first met when they attended Harvard College in the early 1850s. Another close friend of the Salisbury, Susan Reed-Lawton, stands between two of Casares's sons, David (far left) and Primitivo. The man at the far right is Lyman Al Ely, a real0estate developer whose home at the corner of Salisbury Street and Humboldt Avenue was one of the earliest residences to be built on Salisbury land overlooking Institute Park.
–"Frederick Coulson: Blueprints of a Golden Age," by James A. Welu, p.32, plate 11
ProvenanceLee Gallery, Winchester, MA
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Frederick K. Coulson
December 12, 1900
