Deborah Lundbech's photos with the keyword: house

Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: On the Street Where You Live. (Although this is admittedly a rural rather than a residential setting). I bought this "photo on cardboard" at a garage sale in East Middlebury from a descendent of "Grandma Porter" the pregnant woman in the picture. The man is unknown but very likely her husband. The friendly man who sold it to me told me that the house burned down not too long after this picture was taken - but that no-one was hurt. Looking at Family Search I think this is possibly: Etta (Esther Jennie Currier) Porter with Frederick M Porter - and that she will have a son, Roy Fred Porter, born May 10, 1901. Penciled on the back: Grandma Porter c. 1901 Taken near Glover, VT Imprinted: Bartonia Photo Co. Boston Mass. Since the town of Barton is only 2 miles away, I wonder if "Bartonia" is a local licensee of the Boston Company? The town of Glover is in the area of Vermont called the "Northeast Kingdom".

Ferrisburgh, Vermont. August, 2011

Glass plate negative found in Bennington, Vermont.

Glass plate negative that was purchased by dealer in Bennington, Vermont.

Woman sitting on her front porch with lots of plants. Glass plate negative that was purchased by dealer in Bennington, Vermont.

Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: BROKEN OR DILAPIDATED When you consider that this glass plate negative was taken around 1900, it makes this abandoned house ( if this is indeed in Vermont,) appear to have been built mid to late 1700s. That would date it's construction to a time of early white settlement in Vermont. I believe the large central chimney was also typical of houses built then. Possibly, this is a hill farm abandoned in the 1840s when the sheep market bottomed out in the U.S. and farmers left Vermont for the more fertile mid-West. I love this photograph. I had a copy of it made and it's on my wall. What I'd like to do someday is have a reprint done by a studio located in a nearby town that does incredible, book worthy prints - but is very pricey. Glass plate negative found by the antique dealer in Bennington, Vermont.