DeMars Photographs

Frank H. DeMars (1872-1942) was a photographer and the owner of an art store in Winsted, Connecticut. In the late nineteenth century through the first few decades of the twentieth century, he photographed Winsted-area homes and their inhabitants, local businesses, disasters and weather events, town streets, and the landscape. He also purchased large numbers of glass plate negatives from other northwestern Connecticut photographers King T. Sheldon, William Deming, and Una Clingan Rands. In his art store and other small businesses, and on the road, DeMars sold prints and photographic postcards of these images. The glass plate negatives remained in the family after his death. This collection of over 4500 glass plate negatives was donated to the Connecticut Historical Society in 2015.