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Image Not Available for Perkins House and Russ House, Main Street, Hartford
Perkins House and Russ House, Main Street, Hartford
Image Not Available for Perkins House and Russ House, Main Street, Hartford

Perkins House and Russ House, Main Street, Hartford

Date1890
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper mounted on card
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 4 3/8 x 6 1/2in. (11.1 x 16.5cm)
Sheet (height x width): 7 x 9in. (17.8 x 22.9cm)
Credit LineBequest of Ada Louise Taylor
DescriptionFrame residential buildings line a dirt street with trolley tracks. The house at the left has a gambrel roof, louvered shutters and a board fence. Someof the leafless trees appear to be elms. A small commercial building with a sign that may read "LAUNDRY" has a large awning. Part of the brownstone Gothic revival South Baptist Church is visible at the far right. Utility poles and a light pole are on the paved sidewalks. Ghost images of figures, blurred from movement, are at the far left.
Object number1956.84.197
InscribedRecto, inscribed in black ink, lower margin: "Perkins house / N.w. corner Capitol avenue / and Main Street / 1890 - Ancient office of Enoch Perkins (Lawyer) / between - Russ house corner / Linden Place".

Verso, inscribed in black ink, right margin: "These buildings torn down to make way for the new / block known as the 'Linden' built by Brown Thomson."; in another hand: "C.H.S. / SAMUEL TAYLOR COLL."; in pencil, lower right: "neg #155"; accession number inscribed in pencil, lower right.
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