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Residence of Mrs. Samuel [Elizabeth H.] Colt, Hartford, Conn. – Antique Wall Art

Residence of Mrs. Samuel [Elizabeth H.] Colt, Hartford, Conn., c[1907] — historic photograph
Residence of Mrs. Samuel [Elizabeth H.] Colt, Hartford, Conn., c[1907]. Historic photograph from the Hartford collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Residence of Mrs. Samuel [Elizabeth H.] Colt, Hartford, Conn., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Residence of Mrs. Samuel [Elizabeth H.] Colt, Hartford, Conn.

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Few houses in Hartford tie together industry and domestic life as closely as this one, which the record identifies as the residence of Mrs. Samuel Colt, given as Elizabeth H. Colt. She was the widow of the gunmaker whose firm helped make Hartford a major manufacturing center. The Detroit Publishing Company, a large commercial photography business in the early twentieth century, recorded the house on an 8 x 10 inch glass negative around 1907. The picture offers a window onto how families built on industrial fortunes lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Created / publishedc[1907]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes3819 A" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019891. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDwellings.United States--Connecticut--Hartford.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63205

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