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Pavilion Family School; Hartford, Conn.

PrinterPrinted by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg American, 1840 - 1867

Date1844

MediumLithography; printer's ink and watercolor on wove paper tipped into pamphlet

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 4 5/16 x 7 1/4in. (11 x 18.4cm)
Sheet (height x width): 8 1/4 x 9 1/4in. (21 x 23.5cm)
Other (book height x width): 9 1/2 x 6 5/8in. (24.1 x 16.8cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection

DescriptionA large frame building with an oval window, a lunette in the gable, a two-story porch with tall columns, and chimneys is surrounded by trees and bushes. Vines grow on a rail fence in the left foreground. A picket fence is in the right foreground. A man and a woman stand in what appears to be a garden, behind the rail fence, near a small Classical pavilion with columns framing a doorway. A long fence or lattice trellis is nearby. A second man walks on a dirt road or path leading towards the building.

Object number2002.16.0

InscribedOn recto, lithographed title beneath image, "PAVILION / FAMILY SCHOOL; / HARTFORD, CONN."

Letterpress cover of pamphlet, "THE PAVILION / FAMILY SCHOOL. / CATALOGUE / OF THE / Instructors, Pupils and Patrons, / FOR / THREE YEARS, PRECEDING MAY 31ST, 1844. / WITH A CIRCULAR ANNEXED. / Hartford, PRESS OF ELIHU GEER, 26 1/2 STATE ST. / 1844." Also includes letterpress title page and text.NotesTechnique Note: The word "PAVILION" has been added to the inscribed title on the lithographic stone, above the words "FAMILY SCHOOL." In an earlier state of the print, on a broadside issued when the school was first established in 1841, the name of the school appears simply as "FAMILY SCHOOL."

Subject Note: T.L. Wright's Family School was situated in the North End of Hartford, near the junction of what would now be North Main Street and Pavilion Street. Pavilion Street takes its name from the Pavilion Family School. In the 1844 City Directory, the address is listed as Windsor Road, an earlier name for this stretch of North Main Street.

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