Views of Brooklyn, Connecticut
PhotographerPhotographed by
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Date1899
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver prints on paper in album with cardboard covers
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 1/2 x 4 1/2in. (8.9 x 11.4cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 1/2 x 4 1/2in. (8.9 x 11.4cm)
Other (album height x width): 4 5/8 x 5 5/8 x 3/4in. (11.7 x 14.3 x 1.9cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 1/2 x 4 1/2in. (8.9 x 11.4cm)
Other (album height x width): 4 5/8 x 5 5/8 x 3/4in. (11.7 x 14.3 x 1.9cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionAlbum of amateur photographs of Brooklyn and surrounding area. Subjects include a dirt road crossing "the Flats" entering and leaving Brooklyn, the Unitarian Church, the Congregational Church, the Episcopal Church, old Trinity Church, the school house, the town house, the village common, the savings bank, the county jail, the Israel Putnam monument, the Civil War monument, Mortlake House, the Kingsley residence, and the houses of H.P. Robinson, Mrs. Edwin White, and Fred Miller. Other streets include Broadway and the Pomfret road (Rt. 169). Other sites depicted include the Wolf Den in Pomfret, Killingly Pond, and Bennett Falls. In one photograph, an ox team is shown breaking the road after a snowstorm.
Object number2006.93.31.1-.27
MarkingsFront cover, stamped in gold ink, "PHOTOGRAPHS"Paper label inside back cover, printed in red ink, "WARD'S ALBUM / For Unmounted Photographs. / The Paper in this Album is SPECIALLY / PREPARED by us. IT WILL NOT DISCOLOR the Photographs. ORDINARY / PAPER will in time INJURE the Pictures."InscribedEach album page is inscribed in black ink with the title of the photograph.
On verso, lower right, in pencil, accession numbers.NotesDate Note: One photograph is dated 1899.
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