talks
04/15/2025
Scoville Memorial Library
38 Main St.
06068
Salisbury, Conn.
United States
Reconstructing the Past through Archival Photos with Photographer Peter Pierce

Reconstructing the Past through Archival Photos with Photographer Peter Pierce

Peter Peirce shares a project about the lost Swift River Valley towns and their 2000 residents from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Peter Peirce is a professional photographer who was handed a shoebox full of unidentified glass plate negatives in 2001. Among them were hundreds of studio portraits, landscapes, and houses detailing the history of four towns in the Swift River Valley of Massachusetts from the early 1900s until their abrupt and tragic end in April 1938.

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