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The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2012.536.143   © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Views of New Britain
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2012.536.143 © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Views of New Britain

PhotographerPhotographed by Prescott & White American, 1867 - 1873
Date1860-1890
MediumPhotography; albumen prints on paper on cardboard mounts
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 4 x 6 3/16in. (10.2 x 15.7cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 4 x 6 3/16in. (10.2 x 15.7cm) or smaller
Mount (height x width): 4 x 6 3/16in. (10.2 x 15.7cm) or smaller
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionViews of New Britain include the town green, West Main Street, Strickland House (a hotel), a grocery store owned by E. & E. Haslam, the New Britain Normal School, Shuttle Meadow Reservoir and dam, and several interiors of the South Congregational Church. A series of photographs show a severe ice storm that took place on March 14th 1884. Several photographs depict a fire at Landers Frary Clark Cutlery. Snow and ice appear in some photographs. One photograph is a group portrait of three women and a small child.
Part of the John S. Craig Collection.
Object number2012.536.143-.169
InscribedSome photographs have notes in pencil or ink identifying the subjects.

All photographs: On verso, lower right, in pencil, accession numbers
On View
Not on view
Gift of the Unionville Museum, 2012.460.0  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Landers, Frary, and Clark
before 1965
Coffee Mill
Landers, Frary, and Clark
1901-1925
Gift of George W. Cheney, Jr., 1974.6.2  © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Landers, Frary, and Clark
after 1905
Gift of the Hon. Joyce Krutick Craig (ret.), in memory of her husband John S. Craig, 2012.563.2…
Frederick Wiliam Allderige
Gift of the Goshen Historical Society, 1979.74.3, Connecticut Historical Society, Public Domain
Frederick Wiliam Allderige
1886
Gift of Rick and Cyndi Tuchman, 2017.48.0a-f, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
Landers, Frary, and Clark
Museum purchase, 1981.4.0.16  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Unknown
late 19th-early 20th century
2023.60.22a, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection, Copyright Undetermined
Landers, Frary, and Clark
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2010.379.3  © 2011 The Connecticut Historical Society.
C. M. Fowler & Co.
late 19th-early 20th century