City of Meriden, Taken from the Town Hall
PhotographerPhotographed by
Frank Wheeler
Date1865-1870
MediumPhotography; each stereograph consists of two albumen prints on paper mounted side by side on card
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 1/8 x 6 1/16in. (7.9 x 15.4cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 1/8 x 3in. (7.9 x 7.6cm)
Mount (height x width): 3 1/4 x 6 3/4in. (8.3 x 17.1cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 1/8 x 3in. (7.9 x 7.6cm)
Mount (height x width): 3 1/4 x 6 3/4in. (8.3 x 17.1cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionViews form part of a 360 degree panorama of Meriden, Connecticut, taken from the roof of the town hall. Included are several churches with towers, steeples, or cupolas. A stone church is in the Gothic style. Houses with yards and fences fill the middle ground of most views. Laundry hangs on a clothesline in one image. In two photographs, large factories are in the the background. A mountain, probably Meriden Mountain, is in the distance in one view.
Object number2005.100.1-.3
InscribedOn recto, in left margin, in black ink:2005.100.1: "No. 1".
2005.100.2: "6".
2005.100.3: "7".
2005.100.1: On verso, inscribed in pencil in lower margin, "City of Meriden taken from Townhall / No. 1 is a west view, then passing around with / the sun."
On verso, lower right, in pencil, accession numbers.NotesSubject Note: Stereographs are Nos. 1, 6, and 7 from a series of views. Together, they apparently showing a panorama of 360 degrees, taken from the roof of the town hall in Meriden. (Finlay 6/23/2005)
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