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Connecticut Historical Society collection, 1997.135.1  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Societ ...
Hammer Family Photograph Album: Connecticut, Cape Cod, and Long Island
Connecticut Historical Society collection, 1997.135.1 © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Hammer Family Photograph Album: Connecticut, Cape Cod, and Long Island

Photographer (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)
Status
Not on view
2004.2.6.29
David F. Ransom
1982-1998
Gift of Gary Potter, 2009.9.65  © 2010 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Alfred A. Adt
20th century
Gift of Newton C. Brainard, 1954.34.2  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Unknown
before 1942
Gift of Nancy Finlay, 2002.94.36  © 2010 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Thomas P. Benincas Jr.
1980-2000
Connecticut Department of Transportation
1977-1978
Museum purchase, 1980.100.17  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.
F. W. Beers & Co.
1874
2002.85.4
The Wellworth 5 & 10 & 25c. Store
1916-1956