Atwood Collins and William Hamersley and their Families
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
Datebefore 1918
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 3 1/8 x 5 3/8in. (7.9 x 13.7cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 7/8 x 5 3/4in. (9.8 x 14.6cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 7/8 x 5 3/4in. (9.8 x 14.6cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Elizabeth W. Temple
DescriptionA large extended family poses for a group portrait outside a building, probably a house. Three men stand in the back. One man is elderly and has a mustache. Three women are standing and two women are seated in the foreground, each holind an infant. A young child, apparently a young girl, stands in the right foreground. Some women have fur trim on their coats or hats.
Object number2011.63.173
InscribedOn verso, center, in pencil, "8"; lower right, accession numberNotesSubject Note: The elderly man in the center of the photograph is Atwood Collins. The young man in the right background is William J. Hamersley.William J. "Bill" Hamersley was born in 1887 and died of influenza in 1918 at Camp Devens in Ayers, Massachusettes. He was an alumnus of Trinity College and Harvard Law school. He was married to Emily Brace Collins for two years before he died and the couple had one child, Jane Hamersley Wright.
Atwood Collins, the eldest son of Erastus Collins, was born in Hartford in 1851. He graduated from Hartford High School and from Yale College in 1873. He worked in the family dry goods business for a few years, then went to Columbia Law School and was admited to the Hartford Bar in 1880. He left practice the same year and began dealing in stocks and bonds. He was associated with the Security Trust of Hartford and many other financial institutions, including the Hartford National Bank & Trust Company, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, Hartford Steam Boiler, Hartford Electric Light, Society for Savings, and Aetna Fire Insurance Company. He died in 1926. (Ruocco, 03/24/12)
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