Hammer Family Photograph Album: Connecticut, Cape Cod, and Long Island
PhotographerProbably photographed by
Alfred E. Hammer
(American, born 1857)
Date1914-1917
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver prints, mounted on paper pages, in leather-covered album
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 5 1/4 x 5 1/2in. (13.3 x 14cm)
Sheet (height x width): 7 3/4 x 11 1/4in. (19.7 x 28.6cm)
Other (album height x width x depth): 8 x 11 1/2 x 1 1/2in. (20.3 x 29.2 x 3.8cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
Object number1997.135.1.1-.279
DescriptionViews of various Connecticut locations including Kelsey's Island and Pawson Park in Branford, Deep River, Nut Plains in Guilford, Haddam Neck, Elizabeth Park in Hartford, Brockway's Ferry in Lyme, the State Game Preserve in Madison, Middle Haddam, Middletown, Pirate's Cove in New Haven, North Haven, Norwich, Redding, South Lyme, Voluntown, Quonopaug in Woodbury
Subjects include men fishing with a net in Branford, Governor Jonathan Trumbull's war office in Lebanon, a feldspar quarry in Middletown, a galena mine in Monroe, an airplane above Waterbury, and numerous views of the Connecticut River, the Eight Mile River, and the Salmon River.
Locations outside Connecticut include not only Cape Cod and Long Island, but also Ashfield and Concord, Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Island; and Vermont.
Some photographs include Alfred E. Hammer's sons Forrester and Thorkil, his daughters Delphina and Rosalind, and his wife Rosamond.
NotesConstituent Note: An envelope included with the photograph album is addressed to "A. E. Hammer" and is annotated "one of A.E.H.'s good cow pictures," suggesting strongly that Alfred E. Hammer was the photographer of the photographs in this album. (Finlay 2/17/2012)Subjects include men fishing with a net in Branford, Governor Jonathan Trumbull's war office in Lebanon, a feldspar quarry in Middletown, a galena mine in Monroe, an airplane above Waterbury, and numerous views of the Connecticut River, the Eight Mile River, and the Salmon River.
Locations outside Connecticut include not only Cape Cod and Long Island, but also Ashfield and Concord, Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Island; and Vermont.
Some photographs include Alfred E. Hammer's sons Forrester and Thorkil, his daughters Delphina and Rosalind, and his wife Rosamond.
Status
Not on view
