Skip to main content
2003.180.2
New London County 4H Fair, Ledyard
2003.180.2

New London County 4H Fair, Ledyard

DateAugust 1946
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver prints on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 7 11/16 x 9 5/8in. (19.5 x 24.4cm) Sheet (height x width): 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
Object number2003.180.1-.8
DescriptionMen, women, boys, and girls at a country fair on the grassy lawn of a church with doric pilasters and shutters on a high stone basement. Tents are on the lawn, and the flags hang from ropes. Some photographs include folding chairs, folding tables, vegetables on plates, a man at a microphone, exhibits, a Texaco truck, a bulldozer, and a girl wearing pedal pushers and pigtails, holding a toy cow and a live cow by the halter. Signs read, "LEDYARD / CONGREGATIONAL / CHURCH / FOUNDED... / .... SERVICE / 9 A.M. / WELCOME" AND "JUNIOR / HOMEMAKERS"
Status
Not on view
Gift of Laura Harding Brewer and Kate Cheney Chappell, 2022.38.26, Connecticut Historical Socie ...
Caroline Parker Smith
1906
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2012.536.518   © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
E.P. Kellogg & W. K.. Kellogg
1860-1930
Gift of Marcella R. Putnam, 1959.60.26-.29 © 2016 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Adabelle Canney Lyon
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2006.93.57  © 2008 The Connecticut Historical Society.
K. T. Sheldon
1870-1890
The Farmers Pets.
Kelloggs & Comstock
1848-1850
Gift of Mrs. Byard Williams, 1988.133.88  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Horace Bushnell Cheney Sr.
1910
Museum purchase, 1995.36.4  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
William G. Dudley
1916-1927
Evening.
E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
1845