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The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2012.536.173   © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Views of the Brownstone Quarries, Portland
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2012.536.173 © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Views of the Brownstone Quarries, Portland

Photographer (American, active 1865)
Dateabout 1870
MediumPhotography; albumen prints on paper on cardboard mounts
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 1/2 x 7in. (8.9 x 17.8cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 3 1/2 x 7in. (8.9 x 17.8cm) or smaller
Mount (height x width): 3 1/2 x 7in. (8.9 x 17.8cm) or smaller
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionViews show the brownstone quarries in Portland, Connecticut. The scenes show cranes and scaffolding, blocks of quarried stone, and oxcarts. A schooner at a dock on the Connecticut River appears in the background of one photograph.
Part of the John S. Craig Collection.
Object number2012.536.173-.177
On View
Not on view
Gift of Clifford T. Alderman  2012.233.4  © 2011 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Burrows & Bundy
1861-1864
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2012.536.191 © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Horace L. Bundy
1860-1880
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund,  2012.536.417  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
J.K. Bundy
1860-1890
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund,  2012.536.765  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Richard S. DeLamater
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund,  2012.536.401  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
J.K. Bundy
late 19th century
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2012.536.16 © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Isaac F. Langley
1865-1875
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2012.536.195 © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Everett Augustus Scholfield
1866-1885
Gift of Houghton Bulkeley, 1953.5.14  © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society. This image has…
John Warner Barber
1834