“Sap Gatherers”

From the collections of PVMA • Digital image © Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Assoc. • Image use information

About this item

Frances and Mary Allen of Deerfield, Massachusetts, were artistic photographers who used their camera to create pictures they felt typified traditional, rural New England life. Early settlers had long before learned from Native Americans how to collect maple tree sap and boil it down into sugar or syrup in early spring, when cold nights and warm days make the sap run. The Allen sisters thus captured a quintessentially New England activity when they posed these children busily gathering sap.

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Item typePhotograph
PhotographerAllen, Frances and Mary
Date1904–1906
PlaceDeerfield, Massachusetts
EraProgressive Era, World War I, 1900–1928
MaterialPaper
Process/FormatPlatinum; Photography
Dimension detailsHeight: 8.50 in Width: 6.37 in
Catalog #1997.24.065.01-.02
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Allen, Frances and Mary, photographer. Sap Gatherers. Photograph. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1997-24-065-01-02/. Accessed on December 5, 2024.

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