| Rick'ys Big Collection |
Art |
| Description |
This painting is of the Rollstone Iron Foundry which was established in Fitchburg near the vicinity of the present day Stuart's Shopping Center on Water Street in 1867, and was owned by L.H. Goodnow. The foundry produced all kinds of machinery castings, such as fly reels, pulleys, gears and wire drawing machinery. The painting was executed some time around 1887 when an engraving of the company as completed for the publication in Fitchburg Past and Present. The painting was purchased from a dealer with funds from the James F.D. Garfield Acquisition Fund. |
| Object ID |
2000.100.384 |
| Object Name |
painting |
| People |
Goodnow L.H. |
| Provenance |
The painting has an interesting yarn of its own: it once belonged to Mrs. Greenwood, wife of the former Mayor of Fitchburg from 1934-7. Mrs. Greenwood gave the painting to Mrs. Lorraine B. Wilson of Fitchburg with the behest that it would be either donated to the Fitchburg Art Museum or the Fitchburg Historical Society when Mrs. Wilson no longer wanted it. But after Mr. Kenneth Wilson, son of Mrs. Wilson acquired it, it was given to the Fitchburg Art where curator Peter Timms still today thought it belonged in the Historical Society collection thus the Society won out. |
| Subjects |
Rollstone Iron Foundry
James F.D. Garfield Acquisition
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| Title |
Rollstone Iron Foundry |
| Year Range from |
1880 |
| Year range to |
1890 |
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