A. Mitchelson family, Tariffville
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 number2000.191.449
DescriptionTwo men and two women who wear striped dresses stand at picket fence in front of two-story five-bay clapboard house with louvered shutters. Full front and right side Victorian porch with Italianate columns has prolific vines. One of the men is with a horse in a dirt road, one of women stands at the fence gate. A chair is on front porch. A one and half story addition behind house on right has two dormers. There is a stone step and hitching post at road edge left of horse. Far left is another house or barn of large block stone with ladder. Large trees in yard and flowering bushes at right side of house behind fence.Inscription on back: "A. Mitchelson" "Don't want / got a lot" "Tariffville" "Elm St."
NotesConstituent Note: Some photographs in this collection bear the imprint of the Northern Survey Company. Subject Note: Tariffville is a village in the northeast corner of Simsbury.
Status
Not on view
