American School for the Deaf Founders Memorial
PhotographerPhotographed by
Ellsworth S. Grant
American, 1917 - 2013
Datelate 20th century
MediumPhotograph; gelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 5 1/8 x 3 7/16in. (13 x 8.7cm)
Mount (height x width): 11 x 8 1/2in. (27.9 x 21.6cm)
Mount (height x width): 11 x 8 1/2in. (27.9 x 21.6cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Ellsworth S. Grant
DescriptionView of a statue, probably bronze, of a girl wearing a long dress, standing in the palms of two oversized hands. She holds a book under one arm. The base of the statue appears to be a stone. In the background are trees and a street.
Object number2003.224.0
InscribedOn recto of mount, in ink, "Alice Cogswell Statue".On verso, inscribed in pencil at bottom, the accession number.NotesSubject Note: The statue honors the founders of the American School for the Deaf: Thomas Gallaudet; Mason Fitch Cogswell; and Laurent Clerc. The school was originally known as the Asylum for Education and Instruction Of Deaf and Dumb Persons and was located on Asylum Avenue from 1817 until the 1920s, when it moved to West Hartford. The statue of the girl is based on Alice Cogswell, the first student of Gallaudet and the daughter of Mason Cogswell. The sculptor was Frances Wadsworth.
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