[Rarebooks] FS: Shipmaster and Other Salem Portraits -1924 Essex Institute

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“Catalogue of Portraits in the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts. 
Covering Three Centuries”

By Henry Wilder Foote, et al. Published in Salem by The Essex Institute 
in 1936.

The catalog of more than 400 portraits owned by the Essex Institute of 
Salem, Massachusetts. Salem was an important center of seafaring on the 
north coast of Massachusetts in the 18th and 19th centuries. Merchants, 
shipmasters and other well-to-do persons and public officials are all 
well represented in this catalog, as is the work of most of the 
important portrait artists in the area during that time period. The 
portraits are all fully described, including biographical notes on their 
subjects. An increasingly uncommon book.

"The Essex Institute (1848-1992) in Salem, Massachusetts, was a 
literary, historical and scientific society. It maintained a museum, 
library, historic houses; arranged educational programs; and issued 
numerous scholarly publications. The Essex Institute was "formed by the 
union of the Essex Historical Society and the Essex County Natural 
History Society." According to an 1880 travel guide, "its objects are 
general and varied. Perhaps the most important is that of local 
historical discoveries and the preservation of everything relating to 
Essex County history." By the 1930s the institute owned "two fine 
[Samuel] McIntire houses in Salem - the Peirce-Nichols House, built in 
1782, and the Gardner-Pingree House, built in 1804, both ... open to the 
public." In 1992 the institute merged with the Peabody Museum of Salem 
to form the Peabody Essex Museum.

Hardcover. 6.5"x9.5", xii + 306 pages, many black & white plates. Minor 
soil, but otherwise clean and nice, with a tight binding. $60

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