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Samuel Colt Memorial, Hartford, Conn. – Historic Print

Samuel Colt Memorial, Hartford, Conn., c1907. — historic photograph
Samuel Colt Memorial, Hartford, Conn., c1907.. 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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A window into the past: Samuel Colt Memorial, Hartford, Conn., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Samuel Colt Memorial, Hartford, Conn.

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The Samuel Colt Memorial stands as a monument to the Hartford firearms maker who died in 1862, after building the Colt revolver into one of the best-known arms of the nineteenth century. This c1907 glass dry plate negative, made by the Detroit Publishing Company, records the monument as it appeared in the early twentieth century, when the company was documenting American towns and landmarks. Colt's factory made Hartford a center of industrial manufacturing, and the memorial reflects how the city chose to honor one of its most prominent industrialists.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes3820" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019892. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsColt, Samuel,--1814-1862--Statues. Sculpture. Monuments & memorials.United States--Connecticut--Hartford.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63206

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