A view of the 17th century chair known as Governor Carver’s Chair that is in the collection of the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, Mass. On the back of the view is printed “Photographed and Published by B. W. Kilburn, Littleton, N. H., A. S. Burbank, Bookseller and Stationer, Odd Fellows’ Block, No. 6 Main Street, Plymouth, Mass., Catalogue of Views mailed free on application.” Under the image on the right front is printed, “ 369. Gov. Carver’s Chair, Pilgrim Plymouth.”

 According to the information that the Museum provides on their website, it is not likely that this chair belonged to Governor Carver as he died in 1621 when he had been in Plymouth for too short a time for such a chair to have been made for him before his death, especially during the first rough winter in Plymouth.

According to recent wood analysis, the wood is white ash which does not grow in England. Therefore the chair did not come over on the Mayflower with Carver. It would have been made in America. The name Carver has been associated with this particular chair and with this type of chair for such a long time that chairs such as this are known as “Carver chairs”.

The yellow mount measures 7 inches by 4 1/4 inches. There is an old collection number penciled on the back. This large size mount was used by photographers from 1874 to 1884.

The view has light soiling to the mount, some small white paper adhesions on the central lower front of the image area, some small pressure marks, and a small dark stain on the back. 

This item is inventory #7479.

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