A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life: The Photographs of Clover Adams, 1883-1885

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In May 1883, Clover Adams, a descendant of Boston’s Sturgis and Hooper families and the wife of the historian Henry Adams, picked up her camera and began taking photographs—of her husband, of afternoons at the beach on Boston’s North Shore, and of eminent friends who frequented the Adamses’ home on Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C.  Examples of these photographs will be on exhibit 9 February through 2 June at the MHS. Based on Natalie Dykstra’s book, Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life, to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2012, the exhibition showcases Clover’s striking photographs, many of which have not been seen before publicly. It also highlights Clover’s many letters, the notebook she used to record the chronology and technical aspects of her photographs, as well as Henry’s letters, and other family materials. For more information about the exhibition and building hours, please visit the provided link.