Photograph Album

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11606774

Description

Title
Photograph Album
Creator
From the Collection: Paddock, Willard Dryden, 1873-1956
Contributor
From the Collection: Paddock, Charlotte Elizabeth Smith, 1874-1936
From the Collection: Steichen, Charlotte Rodina, 1908-1988
Published / Created
1912-1966
Description
Photograph album with images related to a small farm owned by Willard Dryden Paddock and Charlotte Smith Paddock at 28 Spooner Hill Road, South Kent, Connecticut, 1912 to 1936, with the bulk from 1930 to 1936. Charlotte Smith Paddock compiled the first portion of the album, circa 1930-1936, and her niece, Charlotte "Kate" Rodina Steichen, compiled the second portion, circa 1966, using photographs from her aunt's collection. The second portion includes copious manuscript captions transcribed by Steichen from inscriptions made by Paddock on the versos of the photographic prints, as well as descriptions authored by Steichen. Informal portraits of individuals include Charlotte Paddock, Willard Dryden Paddock, Clara Smith Steichen and Kate Steichen. The album also includes portraits of Kate Steichen with Ray Bolton, and a portrait of her with Carol Silverberg. Other identified individuals include psychoanalyst Adam Empie and his wife, author Margery Hazzard Wells Empie, as well as a portrait of actor Walter Hampden. Images depict interiors and exteriors of the home, as well as views of gardens and surrounding farmland, and a cottage on the property. A couple of images depict sculpture created by Paddock, including Rose in the Wind and a small sculpture of a pig. Images of activities related to farm life include plowing fields and gathering hay, as well as cooking in an open-hearth fireplace. Images of animals on the farm include cows, dogs, geese, horses, oxen, pigs, and rabbits. A group of detail photographs, probably created for an unrealized book about fires and fireplaces by Willard Dryden Paddock, include images of fireplace implements, including andirons, grates, and tongs, as well as cooking tools. A group of images document the first automobiles owned by Kate Steichen, including a Ford Model T in 1926 and a Ford Model A in 1930. A printed poem, "The Little House," by Edith D. Osborne, is pasted to the front endpaper of the album. A formerly laid-in note by Kate Steichen describes a picnic table on the property modelled after Stonehenge. Images not created on the property include canoeing on the Housatonic River in western Connecticut and an exterior portrait made in 1912 of Charlotte Smith Paddock with the family dog at their home at 82 Grove Street on Sheridan Square in New York City.
Provenance
Gift of Francesca Calderone-Steichen, 2014 and 2022.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Digitization Note
Photograph album created by Charlotte Paddock and Charlotte "Kate" Rodina Steichen that documents activities on a small farm owned by the Paddocks in South Kent, Connecticut, 1912-1936.
Language
English

Item Location

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
YCAL MSS 848
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Container / Volume
Box 1

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Citation
Willard Dryden Paddock Photographs and Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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Object ID (OID)
11606774

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