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2025.4.1434a, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection, No Known Copyright
Horatio Alden
2025.4.1434a, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection, No Known Copyright

Horatio Alden

SubjectPortrait of Horatio Alden American, 1792 - 1858
PhotographerPhotographed by S. H. Waite American, 1832 - 1906
Datec. 1842
MediumPhotography
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 4 × 2 3/8in. (10.2 × 6cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
DescriptionTwo identical bust-length portrait carte-de-visite photographs of Horatio Alden.
Object number2025.4.1434a-b
Inscribed(a-b) Typed in black on front: "Waite, Photographer. 275 Main St. Hartford. Ct."

(a) Handwritten in black ink on back: "Horatio Alden / at 50 years old."
Subject Terms
    On View
    Not on view
    Gift of Elizabeth W. Temple, 2011.63.192, © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
    Jenny and Mary Allen
    A. E. Alden's American Picture Gallery
    1868
    Boy's Jacket and Skirt
    Boy's Jacket and Skirt
    Samuel Alden Eddy
    about 1860
    Museum purchase, 2001.17.0 © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.
    On the Porch
    Julian Alden Weir
    1889
    The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2007.17.0 Photograph by David Stansbury © 2013 The Conn…
    Mills Along the River
    Julian Alden Weir
    1895-1899
    Gift of Roger M. and Maria C. Rogers, 2015.62.49a © 2016 The Connecticut Historical Society.
    Amelia Jane Jerome Perkins
    Amelia Jane Jerome Perkins
    Gift of Roger M. and Maria C. Rogers, 2015.62.50a © 2016 The Connecticut Historical Society.
    Dr. William Sheldon Clark Perkins
    William Sheldon Clark Perkins
    Image Not Available for Child's Gloves
    Child's Gloves
    Samuel Alden Eddy
    about 1860s
    Gift of Roger M. and Maria C. Rogers, 2015.62.36a © 2016 The Connecticut Historical Society.
    Hannah Darrow Jerome
    Hannah Darrow Jerome
    Pendant Miniature Portrait of Silas Deane
    Pendant Miniature Portrait of Silas Deane
    Silas Deane
    1774-1776
    The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2004.52.453a, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright U…
    Ann Maria Pickett Moore
    Richard S. DeLamater
    Gift of the Smith-Worthington Saddlery Co., 2021.22.213.1-.71, Connecticut Historical Society, …
    Smith, Bourn & Co. CDV Album of Saddles
    Smith-Worthington Saddlery Company
    1850-1900
    Gift of Laura Harding Brewer and Kate Cheney Chappell, 2022.38.14, Connecticut Historical Socie…
    Two unidentified girls
    George H. Emery
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