C. L. McNeil family, 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 number2000.191.455
DescriptionBearded man and two women wearing hats stand behind plank rail fence at side of house. In front of fence are three girls. One is sitting on ground, one in large hat pulls a toy wagon and another sits in child's rocking chair. House is two-story clapboard cross gable Gothic Victorian with louvered shutters, pointed arch windows on second floor and gable fretwork. A tower is in the cross gable and has four-sided roof with decorative finial. Scrolled fretwork on roof crest and band on tower. Front of house has bay windows. At right rear corner of house is a hammock and what may be a clothesline in front of the roof of an outbuilding. In front yard is a wire mesh trellis with vines leaning on front of house near tree and flowering bushes. At the left is another two-story house. Inscription on back: "C. J. [L?] McNeil" "Torrington or Thomaston"
NotesConstituent Note: Some photographs in this collection bear the imprint of the Northern Survey Company.Subject Note: Probably the family of Charles L. McNeil, who in 1880 was working as a bank cashier in Torrington, Connecticut.
Status
Not on view
