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April, 2019 Archive

Acquisitions

A Dressmaker & Her Dress

During the 19th and well into the 20th centuries, scores of talented seamstresses from every ethnic background worked privately as dressmakers in Fall River; maintaining workrooms in their homes,...

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Fall River History, FRHS Press

Discourses on History, Number 2: Main Street in the Eighteen Seventies and Eighties & A Businessman’s Reminiscences of Fifty Years

At this time last year, I wrote that we were in the process of selecting images to illustrate the second volume in the Discourses on History series, published by the FRHS Press. Indeed, Main Street...

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Acquisitions

Autumn at Medway: Provenance Established

In my last posting about Robert Spear Dunning’s 1885 oil-on-panel landscape painting, Autumn at Medway – acquired by the FRHS at auction in April, 2018, and recently returned from the conservator...

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