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, 1972.2.4.9  © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Women Fishing at Balls Pond
, 1972.2.4.9 © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Women Fishing at Balls Pond

Photographer (American, born 1852)
Date1885
MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 4 5/16 x 7 7/8in. (11 x 20cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Object number1972.2.4.9
DescriptionSix women and an elderly bearded man holding a rake pose beside a millpond. Two of the women hold fishing poles. Two small girls accompany them, one wearing a pinafore and one sitting in a wheelbarrow. A small child appears to be eating something. There is a vine-covered wall in the left background. A ladder leans against a tree in the right background, in front of a vertical-boarded mill building. A rowboat is in the pond.
NotesSubject Note: There is a Ball Pond in New Fairfield and a Balls Pond district in Danbury.
Status
Not on view