Contributed by Maine State Museum
Description
Domestic portrait of the John Blaisdell House or Mr. Palmer's house in Mercer. The photograph was taken by Fred Ruel Jones (1884-1956) who grew up on an apple farm in Mercer at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dr. Jones attended Kents Hill Seminary, Bates College, and graduated from the University of Maine in 1912 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Horticulture. He became a professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
According to his son, Dr. Jones owned one of the first cameras in the Mercer area.
About This Item
- Title: Blaisdell or Palmer House, Mercer, ca. 1920
- Creator: Fred R. Jones
- Creation Date: circa 1920
- Subject Date: circa 1920
- Location: Mercer, Somerset County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 10.2 cm x 12.7 cm
- Local Code: 00.136.50
- Collection: Fred R. Jones Memorial Collection of Glassplate Negatives
- Object Type: Image
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- Houses--Maine--Mercer
- Blaisdell, John--Homes and haunts--Maine--Mercer
- Dwellings--Maine--Mercer
- Photographers--Maine
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