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Robert Frost at 7 months of age, 1874.
Robert Frost served as Lawrence High School co-valedictorian with his future wife, Elinor White, in 1892.
Frost family in Bethlehem, NH, 1907. For a handful of years before moving to the area, the Frost family stayed with the Lynch family in Bethlehem to escape hay fever (seasonal ragweed allergies, common in late summer). The family also stayed here upon their return from England in 1915, and began the search for a farmhouse of their own.

Frost family at the Webster Farm in Bridgewater, N.H., circa 1915. George Browne and Robert Frost met in 1915 when Frost delivered the Phi Beta Kappa lecture at Tufts College. Impressed with what he heard, Browne struck a deal with Frost. In exchange for speaking without fee to the boys at the Browne and Nichols School, a private day school co-founded by Browne in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Brown promised to arrange several lecture engagements for Frost for which Frost would be paid. The Browne and Frost families were close friends from 1915 to 1920 with the Frosts visiting often at the Webster farm in Bridgewater, N.H., which was the family home of Browne’s wife.

Robert Frost and son Carol on Ridge Road in Franconia, NH circa 1916. The mountains of the Franconia Ridge, including Garfield, Lafayette, and Cannon, are visible in the background.
Robert Frost with his children Carol, Marjorie and Lesley, as well as two unidentified friends atop Mt. Lafayette in Franconia, NH.
Robert Frost in his Morris chair at home in Franconia, NH. This photo appeared in the February 14, 1916 issue of Boston Post, “Finds Famous American Poet in White Mountain Village,” by Carl Wilmore. The article is on display at The Frost Place Museum.
The Frost family stands in front of their Franconia farmhouse circa 1916. From left to right: Carol, Leslie, Irma, Robert, Marjorie, Elinor.
Elinor and Robert Frost as seen in a passport photo, thought to be taken in 1928 outside the Frost’s stone cottage in South Shaftsbury, VT.
Robert Frost circa 1924, outside of his home in South Shaftbury, VT.
Portrait by Eric Schaal as featured in 1940s Life magazine.

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