Phebe Smart House

Photographer

Creation Date

1890-1897

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Description

Brown or Chocolate photographic print of two women and a child posing on the back porch of Phebe Eliza Smart's residence. Phebe Smart, née DeWitt, was the Civil War widow of Charles Smart. She died in Seboeis, Maine in March 1897. The unidentified woman and child in the photograph may be a daughter-in-law and grandchild to Phebe. The farmstead includes a white, clapboard farmhouse and extended buildings. The house has two hip-roof dormers and a third gable-front dormer on the extension. Behind the house is a large wood pile and an empty clothes lines. See NA2462.

Topic

Architecture, Social Life and Customs, Race and Gender

Collection

MF072

Series Number

NA2462

Identifier

p08093

Recommended Citation

"Phebe Smart House" (2024). Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Image Gallery. 699.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/nafoh_gallery/699

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Existence and Location of Originals

Seboeis Plantation, Maine