Bricklayers, Torrington?
PhotographerPhotographed by
Northern Survey Company
Date1880-1890
MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 6 5/16 x 8 11/16in. (16 x 22cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
Object number2000.191.277
DescriptionLarge group of men, some of them bricklayers, posing on scaffolding surrounding brick chimney stack under construction and on flatbed railroad car #59 (Hartford Shop) of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Some wear overalls, most wear hats and three wear jackets and vests, some of them hold hods. One has a knobby walking stick and another a watch chain. The workman at top of scaffold appears to be African American. A one-story brick building is to the left, a factory with tall brick smokestack in background and a railroad or roadbed is to rear. Tools, ladders and brick construction activities in evidence.
NotesConstituent Note: Some photographs in this collection bear the imprint of the Northern Survey Company.Status
Not on view
