1890-1939
GUSN-379664
The image shows the gravestone of Lydia C. Ayer, located in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The inscription notes that she was the daughter of Capt. William and Hannah Ayer, born in 1813 and died in 1827. The stone mentions that she was a schoolmate referenced by Whittier in the poem "In School Days," described by Holmes as "the most beautiful school-boy poem in the English language." The gravestone has an engraved epitaph excerpt from the poem.
graves
headstones (tombstones)
cemeteries
trees
photographs
film (material by form)
negatives (photographic)
IMLS Negative Barcode NP009206
Halliday negative H-1792b
1 film negative
PC027
Halliday Historic Photograph Company photographic collection, 1890s-1930s
PC027.001.001.033.H-1792b
Haverhill (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Halliday Historic Photograph Co.
film (material by form)
negatives (photographic)
Original nitrate negative destroyed 1980-10.
Item
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