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Image Not Available for Watson family, Lebanon or Sprague
Watson family, Lebanon or Sprague
Image Not Available for Watson family, Lebanon or Sprague

Watson family, Lebanon or Sprague

Date1880-1890
MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 6 5/16 x 8 11/16in. (16 x 22cm)
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
DescriptionWatson family in front of five-bay, two-story clapboard Colonial house probably in Lebanon. Picket fence and hemlock trees in front of house. Two men, one with a horse, and two women stand in dirt road intersection. A dog stands on stone wall at left corner of the intersection. One road goes to a barn. Other outbuildings are behind it.
Object number2000.191.411
InscribedOn verso, "B. H. Watson" "Lebanon"NotesConstituent Note: Some photographs in this collection bear the imprint of the Northern Survey Company.

Subject Note: Possibly Byron H. Watson, who is listed in the 1880 Federal Census as a farmer in Sprague, Connecticut. Sprague adjoins the town of Lebanon.
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