If nothing else, compliance with Center for Disease Control and Commonwealth of Massachusetts recommended protocols pertaining to the coronavirus pandemic has allowed for long postponed archival...
I had been hoping to acquire a painting by Edward Chalmers Leavitt (1842-1904) for the FRHS collection for some time, and when alerted by a long-time FRHS member and benefactor, just a few weeks...
It was a few weeks ago, while scanning the various lots of an online auction catalogue, that I noticed a pair of paintings. The artist’s hand certainly looked familiar – unmistakable, really, and...
Last Friday there was a delivery. The three medium-sized boxes contained material that had once belonged to Florence Cook Brigham – my dearest friend and mentor – and that after her death passed...
Of the countless miles of cloth woven or printed in Fall River’s mills during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, surprisingly few samples have survived with documentation of their production...
It was sometime in the early 1980s that I first saw the painting, hanging on the east wall of the east room of a house within walking distance of the FRHS – it was a lovely house, built in the back...
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,...
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...
It started with a telephone call on Tuesday morning. The inquiry: “Does the historical society have a copy of the 1939 edition of the Academy of the Sacred Hearts Yearbook?” The answer: “No,...
Robert Spear Dunning’s 1885 oil-on-panel landscape painting, Autumn at Medway, acquired by the FRHS in April, 2018, has returned from the conservator restored to its former brilliance – and a...
