Box 7

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This is by far the largest category of photographs, including images of individuals and animals, the interiors and exteriors of houses, and natural locations on the island. There are a number of duplicates (including 3 copies of a photograph entitled "Woods in Winter"), and several of the photographs are significantly larger than the rest.

Scope and Contents Most of these photographs were taken at professional studios (listed where appropriate), and are matted. They likely date from the late nineteenth century, except for a small cameo photograph, which may date from earlier in the century. Only a portrait of Caroline Bright, as a child, has been identified for certain. - Robert Bright? (hand-painted) - Young man in uniform, poss. Douglas Bright (4 items) - Caroline de Beelen Lovett as a child (D. Hinkle, 4739 Main St., Germantown) -...

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Images from various locations, including Monhegan Island (Lorimer E. Brackett, Photocards); Boothbay Harbor, Maine (The Labbie Picture Shop); and Mansfield, England (Sherwood Photographic Company). - "Surf at Gull Rock" - "Studio -- Monhegan, Maine" - Cathedral Woods in Winter - "Cathedral Woods" - "Winter Home" - [studio] - Portrait of a woman - Town - "Newstead Abbey" - "Fog Bound, Monhegan, ME" - "Ascott House"

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Includes photographs that do not fall in any of the above categories. Only the photos of the couple and the schoolgirls are matted, and the photo of the child in the tub is badly damaged. - Photo of a restaurant sent to R.S. Bright by Walker Cox (1929) - Group photo at the beach - Small child in tub - Photo of house (hand-painted) - Unidentified couple (mounted in a cardboard folder) - Group photo of schoolgirls - Photo negatives (2 items)

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This belonged to Caroline Bright, and includes transcriptions in her own hand of the works of notable poets (such as George Elliot, Shelley, Browning), as well as newspaper clippings of poems that were pasted onto a few of the pages. In addition, several photographs of an unidentified building were laid into the pages of the book.

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A leather-bound journal. On the first page is inscribed, "Cape May NJ / The Summer of Nineteen Twenty Three / Caroline de Beelen L. Bright / Some Thoughts in Verse." Many of these are original poems written by Caroline Bright during a holiday at Cape May, and a few of the later poems were written at Monhegan Island, Maine, in 1932. Several pages have been torn out from the front of the book.