Gift of the George Keller family, 2014.9.172 © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.

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Gift of the George Keller family, 2014.9.175 © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Views in Scotland and Ireland

Date1893-1945

MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper on cardboard mount; gelatin silver prints on paper, some on cardboard mount

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 6 1/2 x 8 1/2in. (16.5 x 21.6cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 9 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (24.1 x 28.9cm) or smaller

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineGift of the George Keller family

DescriptionPhotographs and postcards of scenes in Scotland and Ireland. Include shots of a village in Kinbuck, Scotland, a garden and cows in Kinbuck, Scotland, the old Keller home in Fermoy, Ireland, Main Street in Kippen, Scotland, a road leading into the village of Kippen, Scotland, the front of a post office in the Port of Monteith, Scotland, an automobile outside a house in Kinbuck, Scotland, and the drawing room of Walter Chalmer Smith's home in Edinburgh, Scotland and the drawing room of a home in Glasgow, Scotland. Several photgraphs include horse drawn carriages.

Object number2014.9.169-.178

InscribedPhotographs have inscriptions identifying locations

All photographs, on verso, lower right, in pencil, accession number

2014.9.169, "Kinbuck, near grandfather's summer home - Orwell. W.C. Smith's home overlooked the village"

2014.9.172, "House in Fermoy which is probably where Dad's brother was left in 1848 (?) when Dad was left in Cork& their parents went to America"

2014.9.173, "House on left is where Aunt Agnes lived after grandfather's death"

2014.9.177, "Orwell Cottage, Scotland, Kinbuck (as now remodeled during WW II). Home of Walter Chalmers Smith"

2014.9.178, "Top - Home of Monteiths and Thomsons in Queen's Park, Glasgow. Bottom - 20 Royal Circus, Edinburgh. Now a hotel! Mother spent much time here as a child. Mother's home in Edinburgh from 1870-1893. She was married from here in 1887"

NotesSubject note: Walter Chalmers Smith, father of Mary Keller, retired to a summer home, called Orwell, in Kinbuck, Scotland around 1894. Agnes Montheith Smith, Mary Keller's sister, lived in Kinbuck, Scotland after Walter's death in 1908.

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