Women Fishing at Balls Pond
Date1885
MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 4 5/16 x 7 7/8in. (11 x 20cm)
DescriptionSix women and an elderly bearded man holding a rake pose beside a millpond. Two of the women hold fishing poles. Two small girls accompany them, one wearing a pinafore and one sitting in a wheelbarrow. A small child appears to be eating something. There is a vine-covered wall in the left background. A ladder leans against a tree in the right background, in front of a vertical-boarded mill building. A rowboat is in the pond.
Object number1972.2.4.9
InscribedOn verso: "Balls Pond 1885."NotesSubject Note: There is a Ball Pond in New Fairfield and a Balls Pond district in Danbury.On View
Not on view