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Museum purchase,  2017.35.463, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, In copyright
Event & Personal Photos
Museum purchase, 2017.35.463, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, In copyright

Event & Personal Photos

SubjectPortrait of Thomas Llewellen Vater American, 1935 - 2006
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions: 21 7/8 × 27 7/8in. (55.6 × 70.8cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineMuseum purchase
DescriptionWhite rectangular poster board decorated with a mix of professional and personal photographs of Tom Vater, both black and white, and color photographs. The photographs vary in size and span various portions of Vater’s life and career. Some of the photographs are taken on Television sets.
Object number2017.35.463
Notes"Teensville," a television program on Hartford’s Channel 18, aired from 1959 to 1961. Tom Vater (1935-2006), a West Hartford native, hosted the television program.
On View
Not on view
Museum purchase,  2017.35.462, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, In copyright
Thomas Llewellen Vater
1959-1961
Gift of Nora Oakes Howard, 2017.41.28, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermined
Thomas F. Oakes
1944-1945
Gift of Nora Oakes Howard, 2017.41.19, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermined
Thomas F. Oakes
1944-1945
Connecticut Historical Society collection, 2002.102.5  © 2002 The Connecticut Historical Societ…
Unknown
1960-1974
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2012.536.622  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Thomas M.V. Doughty
about 1870
Gift of Nora Oakes Howard, 2017.41.37, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermined
Thomas F. Oakes
1944
Gift of Nora Oakes Howard, 2017.41.42, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermined
Thomas F. Oakes
1944-1945
Gift of Nora Oakes Howard, 2017.41.44, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermined
Thomas F. Oakes
1944-1945