The People

Mabel Osgood Wright, Bicyclers on Brothwell’s Bridge, c. 1900

Mabel Osgood Wright, Three in a Boat, c. 1900

Mabel Osgood Wright, Bulkley’s Livery Stable, Wallace Bulkley, c. 1900

Mabel Osgood Wright, Black Woman by Fence, c. 1900

Mabel Osgood Wright, John Gould Family, c. 1900

Mabel Osgood Wright, Beach Clambake, c. 1900

Mabel Osgood Wright, Helen and Dawson Glover in Mourning, c. 1900

Mabel Osgood Wright, Perry’s Mill with Miller Gould in Doorway, c. 1900

Mabel Osgood Wright, A Favorite Picnic Grounds, Hemlock Woods, c. 1900

Mabel Osgood Wright, Two Women and a Dog in a Window, c. 1900

Wright’s camera documents the different types of people who populated Fairfield at the turn of the twentieth century: the millers, the leisured women, and the livery workers.

They are captured partaking in new and modern activities, such as riding bicycles, as well as more traditional clambakes and horse rides. As today, most of Wright’s photographs portray Fairfield’s residents enjoying the town’s natural surroundings, its seashore and its woods

The People

Picturing Fairfield: The Photographs of Mabel Osgood Wright