The Greene Family Lake Winnipesaukee photograph album (25cm x 30cm) contains 32 photographs taken on and around the New Hampshire lake in the late 19th century. Most prints are 24cm x 19cm, pasted one to a page, or 12cm x 19cm, pasted two to a page; one page has four prints, each 9cm x 12cm. The original covers are no longer extant.
A large steamboat, the Lady of the Lake, appears in one or two images. A small steamboat belonging to the Greene family, theMohawk, is shown on the water in numerous photographs, often with people relaxing on deck or waiting to board from a dock. The album contains many scenic views of lakeside properties, likely owned by the Greene family, including one of the Hotel Weirs. One boy posed by a tall flagpole with a large United States flag, erected next to a lakefront house, and one item shows a flock of ducks around a sign for Roxmont Mineral Spring, possibly part of the Hotel Weirs grounds. Some of the pictures are interior views of unidentified people relaxing in a parlor; in one photograph, a woman sits at the piano while a boy plays a horn and a man reads a newspaper from Boston, Massachusetts. J. A. Greene appears in at least two photographs; in one photograph he sits in a parlor with an unidentified woman and in another photograph he is shown with freshly caught fish along the lakeshore. Photographs of a hunting party beside a log cabin, fishing from a canoe, riding in a horse-drawn wagon, and posing by a dead deer are also included. The album has a formal group portrait of a man, woman, and young boy and a formal portrait of a young girl, all likely members of the Greene family. Two fanciful images show a person standing next to a florally decorated bicycle with a large umbrella attached and a staged scene of a tooth extraction set in a medical office. A second photograph of the same medical office shows a man writing at a desk.
A list of photographs is housed with the album.
Dr. J. A. (Jared Alonzo) Greene (1845-1917) and Dr. F. E. (Frank Eugene) Greene (1854-1909) were sons of Dr. Reuben Greene (b. 1817), a prominent physician in Boston, Massachusetts, and Lydia (Waste) Greene (d. 1868). After inheriting their father's business, the brothers patented and manufactured Dr. Greene's Nervura Nerve Tonic, beginning in the late 1880s, and published numerous medicine pamphlets. In 1889, J. A. Greene purchased land on Long Island in Lake Winnipesaukee near Moultonborough, New Hampshire. His brother F. E. Greene and a sister and their families also purchased land in the area. J. A. Greene owned a number of properties and businesses in the area including the Roxmont Stock and Poultry Farm in Moultonborough and the Hotel Weirs on Long Island. Both brothers maintained steam yachts on Lake Winnipesaukee, including theMohawk, owned by F. E. Greene.
Lake Winnipesaukee lies in central New Hampshire and has been a vacation destination since the late 19th century.
