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Description
Farmer and Reverend Emery Butts sat for photographer Chansonetta Stanley Emmons in a table-chair. The piece of furniture was a fold up table and chair combination, popular during the 18th thorough early 20th centuries for saving space.
Emmons entitled this image "Old Table Chair #2" and used it to illustrate her self-published book, "The Old Table Chair" in 1909.
About This Item
- Title: Emery Butts, New Portland, ca. 1901
- Creator: Chansonetta Stanley Emmons
- Creation Date: circa 1910
- Subject Date: circa 1910
- Location: West New Portland, New Portland, Somerset County, ME
- Media: Lantern slide, hand colored
- Dimensions: 8 cm x 10 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 4040, Box 5/A017
- Collection: Chansonetta Stanley Emmons photograph collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Chairs
- Clergy--Maine
- Country life--Maine
- Emmons, Chansonetta Stanley, 1858-1937
- Kitchens
- Older men--Maine
- Photographers
- Photographs
- Portraits
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Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
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