Scholfield, Everett. "The Mystic Vision of Everett Scholfield," in American Heritage, February/March 1980, 24-33.

A Connecticut photographer's record of life in a shipbuilding town, Mystic, Connecticut.  Scholfield lived in Mystic from 1865 to 1930 and had a studio in New London beginning in 1894.  The selection is from the holdings of the Mystic Seaport Museum, which has 6,000 of his glass plate negatives.  Entire issue, softcover, near fine with some pages partially separated from spine.

Everett Augustus Scholfield (1843–1930) was an American commercial portraitist and documentary photographer whose half-century career captured the changing community, maritime industry, and daily life of coastal New England. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Scholfield learned the trade from his father before establishing himself as a itinerant photographer across Rhode Island and Connecticut during the 1860s. He eventually opened long-running studios in Mystic and New London, Connecticut, taking on various partners—most notably George E. Tingley—while documenting local residents, visiting vessels, townscapes, and regional industrial growth. Despite brief ventures into studio work in St. Croix and mining investments in Honduras, Scholfield maintained a steady presence in southeastern Connecticut until his retirement in 1912. Today, his extensive archive of glass-plate negatives and cabinet cards, preserved in collections like that of the Mystic Seaport Museum, serves as an invaluable visual record of late 19th- and early 20th-century maritime life and portraiture in southern New England.