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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
James Frothingham Hunnewell
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

James Frothingham Hunnewell

Boston, 1832 - 1910, Boston
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BiographyJames Frothingham Hunnewell (1832-1910) was the son of Captain James Hunnewell (1794-1869) and Susan Lamson Hunnewell of Charlestown, Massachusetts. His father was the founder of C. Brewer & Co., an international trading business. Hunnewell was a member of his father's business but also was a major New England antiquarian and collector of rare books.

James Frothingham Hunnewell Juvenilia and Other Papers, 1830-1840 (MS Am 2778). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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