Martin G. Larrabee Photograph Collection, 1893-1990

Title:

Martin G. Larrabee Photograph Collection, 1893-1990

Creator:

Larrabee, Martin G., 1910-2003
Larrabee, Ralph C., 1870-1935

Creator Role:

Photographer

Accession / Call Number:

S 2009.162

Object ID:

S 2009.162

Date:

1893-1990

Physical Description:

3 boxes and 3 oversized photographs

Scope and Content:

The Martin G. Larrabee Photograph Collection, 1893-1990, contains the family photographs and slides of Martin G. Larrabee, a biophysics professor and hiker who planned and built numerous hiking trails in Maryland. This collection is primarily comprised of eleven slide boxes of vacation photographs, which includes Larrabee's travels and hikes in New England. Many of the slides show locations in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Monhegan Island in Maine. Other identified locations include visits to Canada, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Also included in this collection is a New England photograph album containing approximately 200 photographs of a trip in 1990 and five mounted photographs of or by Martin Larrabee's father, Ralph C. Larrabee, of which one is dated 1893. Four of these images are class portraits presumably from Ralph Larrabee's time at Harvard Medical School.

Subjects:

Hikers , Photographers , College teachers , Animals , Camps , Camp sites, facilities, etc , Cats , Children , Dogs , Families , Hiking , Holidays , Islands , Men , Mountains , Mountains--New Hampshire , Women

Locations:

Adirondack Mountains, NY
Bailey Island, ME
Baltimore, MD
Maine
Monhegan Island, ME
Mount Washington, NH
New Hampshire
Old Rag Mountain, VA
White Mountains, NH and ME

People:

Larrabee, Martin G., 1910-2003 , Larrabee, Ralph C., 1870-1935

Organizations:

Appalachian Mountain Club
Cylburn Arboretum Association
Harvard University
Mount Washington Cog Railway
National Arboretum (U.S.)

Credit Line:

Gift of David and Katherine Larrabee.

Restrictions:

Available for research.

Level Description:

Collection