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Gift of The Hartford Dental Society, 2009.410.12.1  © 2015 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Photograph album
Gift of The Hartford Dental Society, 2009.410.12.1 © 2015 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Photograph album

Subject (1815 - 1848)
Date2004
MediumPhotographs
DimensionsSheet (Photos 1-12 (height x width)): 6 × 4in. (15.2 × 10.2cm)
Sheet (Contributors label (height x width)): 4 × 8 1/2in. (10.2 × 21.6cm)
Sheet (height x width): 8 1/2 × 6 1/2in. (21.6 × 16.5cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineHartford Dental Society
DescriptionTwelve photographs of busts added to the Horace Wells memorial in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
One bust is of a woman with her head up, eyes closed and the words beneath her read "I sleep to awaken"
The second bust is of the same woman with her head up, but her eyes are open and the words beneath her read "I awaken to Glory".
Included in the album is a label noting details about the bust, who contributeed to its creation, and where it is located.
Object number2009.410.12.1-.13
On View
Not on view
Collections
Sampler
Mariett Norton
1836
Bequest of George Dudley Seymour, 1945.1.21, Connecticut Historical Society, No known copyright
Laura Wells
about 1812
Gift of Horace Learned and Mrs. Frank W. Crocker, 1979.25.310, Connecticut Museum of Culture an…
Mary Cheney
1870 - 1875
Figured Flask
Unknown
1847-1870
The Death of Young Napoleon.
E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
1845-1846
2015.77.22 © 2015 The Connecticut Historical Society
The Turner and Seymour Manufacturing Company
1866-1873
Gift of Stanhope F. Cunningham, 2013.182.7  © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Phyllis Fenn Cunningham
1950-1979
Sampler
Abigail Williams
1794
Bequest of George Dudley Seymour, 1945.1.8, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known…
Abigail Hurlbut Wells
1900-1905
Given on behalf of Eva Kelsey Peck Smith, 2012.494.2  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society…
Caroline Wood
about 1880