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Description
Photographer Chansonetta Stanley Emmons photographed the tablet and boulder mark at the location on the Kennebec River where Benedict Arnold and his soldiers left the river for their portage to the Dead River on that historic march to Quebec in October of 1775. Chansonetta would have photographed this site after 1916 when the Daughters of the American Revolution placed the marker.
About This Item
- Title: Benedict Arnold Memorial Tablet, Carratunk, ca. 1920
- Creator: Chansonetta Stanley Emmons
- Creation Date: circa 1920
- Subject Date: circa 1920
- Location: Carratunk, Somerset County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 7.6 cm x 5.1 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 4040, Box 11/0408
- Collection: Chansonetta Stanley Emmons photograph collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Daughters of the American Revolution. Maine State Organization
- Emmons, Chansonetta Stanley, 1858-1937
- Landscape photography--20th century
- Women photographers--Maine
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