ART AND ARTIFACTS

             In addition to the household, craft, and agricultural artifacts in our Barn Museum, our library contains a considerable amount of non-book material. These items reside in a controlled environment, and are carefully stored and catalogued, and include Portraits, Paintings by Local Artists, Work from Classes at Thetford Academy, Costumes, Artifacts and Furniture.


PORTRAITS (Click link for image and subject biography)
          Six early 19^th century portraits:    Timothy Bartholomew,  Joseph Hosford, and Abner Hosford, painted by Benjamin Franklin Mason; Dr. David Palmer and Judge Simeon Short, all of Thetford, and Benjamin Page, of Swanzey, NH.
 

-     Philip Martin  (1893 - 1971)             
-     William Malherbe (1884 - 1955)             
-     R. Alden Burt (1921 - 1997)             
-     William Bartholomew (1822 - 1898) Boston art educator who spent several summers in Post Mills             
-     William Baxter Closson (1848-1926)

-     Pencil sketching             
-     stenciling
-     painting on sandpaper
-     copy of small and large engravings.

-     Several local wedding dresses, 1880-1920             
-     A Civil War uniform from a member of the Hosford family.

-     Children's games, toys and clothes             
-     Needlework             
-     Medical Kit of local doctor H.H. Niles (1807-1881)             
-     Guns and accessories             
-     Fishing rods and reels from the Chubb Fish Rod Factory in Post Mills.

-     Rev. Asa Burton - candlestand, country chippendale chair, 2 Windsor chairs             
-     Judge Simeon Short - Empire desk             
-     Fowler family - desk, rocker, tall clock             
-     horsehair parlor set from Howe family             
-     Tall chest made in Enfield, NH shaker colony             
-     Hosford-Wilcox family - rocker, wooden box, large hair wreath.

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