Daniel G. Axtell
Details date early image of Brattleboro
New details emerge from a new scan of a daguerreotype taken from Mount Wantastiquet by a famous 19th-century photographer
The earliest known photographs of Brattleboro are now available for viewing on the Internet (digitalvermont.org). The Vermont Historical Society has generously digitized and web-published its collection of eight early photographs by Thomas M. Easterly of Guilford and Brattleboro, including a remarkable view of Brattleboro circa 1848.
This view, “Brattleboro, Vt., from Chesterfield Mountain, N.H.,” is not found in Before Our Time: A Pictorial Memoir of Brattleboro because it wasn't uncovered until 1984, 10 years after that very thorough book was published.