Atwood Collins, Yale '73
PhotographerPhotographed by
William Notman
(Canadian, 1826 - 1891)
Date1873
MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 3 9/16 x 2 1/4in. (9 x 5.7cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 9/16 x 2 1/4in. (9 x 5.7cm)
Mount (height x width): 4 x 2 7/16in. (10.2 x 6.2cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Elizabeth W. Temple
Object number2011.63.145
DescriptionBust-length portrait of a young man with a mustache. He is wearing a coat with unusually wide lapels. A small pin is fastened to what appears to be vest beneath the coat.
NotesSubject Note: Atwood Collins, the eldest son of Erastus Collins, was born in Hartford in 1851. He graduated from Hartford High School and from Yale College in 1873. He worked in the family dry goods business for a few years, then went to Columbia Law School and was admited to the Hartford Bar in 1880. He left practice the same year and began dealing in stocks and bonds. He was associated with the Security Trust of Hartford and many other financial institutions, including the Hartford National Bank & Trust Company, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, Hartford Steam Boiler, Hartford Electric Light, Society for Savings, and Aetna Fire Insurance Company. He died in 1926. This photograph is presumably Atwood Collins's Yale class picture.
(Ruocco, 03/24/12)
Status
Not on view
