7" x 10" trade paperback,
76 pages
ISBN 978-0-9789546-6-6
$15.00

Book is available from Amazon, RiverRun Bookstore, Wentworth-Gardner House and other Portsmouth historic houses.

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Wallace Nutting's Portsmouth:

by Richard M. Candee

In the first local case study of Wallace Nutting's documentary and ‘colonial' photography in a single community Richard M. Candee, Professor Emeritus of American & New England Studies at Boston University, captures the energy of this unique man and the Colonial Revival movement he helped spark. A unique visual record of Portsmouth's architectural heritage in the decade before World War I, the black and white or hand colored photographs -­ many seldom been seen before - are interpreted in Nutting's own words.

One of the first entrepreneurs to undertake historic preservation, Nutting also promoted a new appreciation of Old America by restoring one of the city's finest landmarks, the Wentworth-Gardner House. One of a chain of historic house museums, it also provided the photographer many more authentic settings in which to show attractive young women in period dress.

This former minister's photographs of such ‘colonial' scenes became little sermons on the importance of preserving our American past.