One-Room School Houses
PhotographerPhotographed by
Laighton Brothers
Date1874-1891
MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper on cardboard mount; collodion print on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 4 x 5 13/16in. (10.2 x 14.8cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 4 x 5 13/16in. (10.2 x 14.8cm) or smaller
Mount (height x width): 4 3/16 x 8 7/16in. (10.6 x 21.4cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 4 x 5 13/16in. (10.2 x 14.8cm) or smaller
Mount (height x width): 4 3/16 x 8 7/16in. (10.6 x 21.4cm) or smaller
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionOne school house is brick with a wire fence. The other is a frame building with a cupola and men, women, boys, and girls gathered on the steps and on the grassy lawn. Both schools have young trees growing in the schoolyards.
Object number2006.93.92-.93
Inscribed2006.93.92, on verso, in black ink, "July 4, 1892 / School house in / Broad Brook Conn. / Leverett Belknap / Sarah M. Boynton / Leverett Belknap"; lower left, in black ink, "PASSED ON AUGUST 9 1986"On verso, lower right, in pencil, accession numbers.
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