Title: Day Dreams
Object Name: Drawing
Object ID: 1992.031
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1875
Description: Panoramic device depicting trip in White Mountains, unknown artist, 1875. Pencil and watercolor and pastel crayon on paper on parchment. Continuous paper scroll approx. 15 ft. long, 3.75" wide, attached to wooden rollers at each end with cotton fabric and two wooden cranks. In wooden box. Outer paper layer is adhered to parchment backing. Scroll depicts 20 different sketches of scenes from trip taken by a New York family in September 1875 to the White Mountains. Scenes vary from 6" to 13" wide and are separated by orange pastel crayon lines. Each scene has a pencil inscription below it with date, location, and people's names. The first frame is the title panel, five lines of text, mostly unreadable: "Day Dreams / Fall 187[5] ----". Box is open at top (no cover), split on bottom: remnant of paper label at left end, with red lettering: "GROUND RO [?] / 100 COMMER [CIAL]", apparently cut from larger box.
Material: Paper
Wood
Textile
Dimensions: H-2.4 W-14.75 D-4.75 inches
Provenance: The tourists apparently stayed at Mrs. S. D. Pendexter's boarding house in Intervale and visited places in the general area, including North Conway, Pinkham Notch, Mount Kearsarge North, Fabyan's, and Crawford Notch, often on horseback, or in carriage of "S.D. Pendexter, N.C." Except for Jennie A. Sprague of New York, the tourists are identified by first name only. The scroll was apparently drawn by "Lillie" or "Lulu".
Credit Line: New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
People:
Lillie,
Lulu,
Pendexter, S. D.,
Sprague, Jennie A.
Subjects:
Crawford Notch,
Fabyan House,
Intervale, NH,
Landscape,
North Conway, NH,
Pinkham Notch,
Scroll,
White Mountains,
Mount Kearsarge (North)