Home until spring with a pot of split pea soup on the stove and a bread baking in the oven. A set of photographs shot in 1969 of the house at 5 Tucker Street in Marblehead, Massachusetts which was built at the end of the 17th century. But what caught my eye is the entire bookcase stuffed with cookbooks. More than my mother’s cookbook collection and hers was huge. Too fun!

Library with contemporary magazines in the magazine rack just past the sofa. 5 Tucker Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts. Image ca. 1965. American. Samuel Chamberlain, photographer. Samuel Chamberlain Photographs Negative Collection, Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum. Copyright undetermined but the photographer died in 1975 so his estate, presumably. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:cr56qk11w

I don’t know why these photographs were taken as it doesn’t say nor does it say whether 5 Tucker Street was a house museum or a home inhabited by the owners as opposed to docents dressed like 1690 people though I know little of house museums as in my entire life I’ve only been in one and that was a long time ago. But there is very little put out that looks modern ish; I’ve been in a fair number of old houses packed with antiques because of my micro crafts business and even in homes furnished in real Chippendale there is a laptop sitting on the sideboard and a plastic bottle of Schweppes ginger ale out on the coffee table. But a fun set – I hope you like them too.