Collins Family Photograph Album
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
Dateearly 20th century
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver prints, cyanotypes on tan paper in plastic sleeves, in plastic-covered album
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 6 1/2 x 8 3/4in. (16.5 x 22.2cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 12 x 9in. (30.5 x 22.9cm)
Other (album height x width x depth): 12 1/2 x 12 5/8 x 1 1/2in. (31.8 x 32.1 x 3.8cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineBequeathed by Josephine Toy Collins Tilney
Object number2002.158.1.1-.200
DescriptionAmateur photographs of people and places associated with the Toy and Collins families. Subjects include small girls, infants, women, men. Some children have toys, including dolls and a toy bicycle. In one photograph, toys are arranged on a table beneath a small Christmas tree. Some scenes show the interior of the Toy house at 1057 Asylum Avenue. Others show families on the beach at Watch Hill and Weekapaug, Rhode Island and Black Point, Connecticut. One includes a windmill. Other photographs include the Hartford Golf Club, Solidiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, the Elizabeth Park Rose Garden, and the Bulkeley Bridge celebration.
Status
Not on view
after 1956
