This blog post is part
of an occasional series about the Gibson House Museum Archives; a repository of
personal documents and photographs from the extended Gibson family. The
archives are accessible by appointment; contact curator@thegibsonhouse.org to make
arrangements.
The Gibsons were not just devoted Bostonians, but avid world travelers as well. Multiple photo albums received as part of a recent donation to the museum by Gibson family descendant Rosamond Warren Allen document Mary Ethel and Rosamond Gibson’s travels throughout Europe in the early twentieth century. With the birth of their sons—Henry Freeman Allen and Warren Winslow, respectively—their travel bug only spread. The photo albums that all of these members of the Gibson family created allow us to not only look back at their distinctly personal moments, but also discern their opinions on and relationship to the world outside of Boston.
