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Connecticut State Prison

Description: Image of an elevated street view of the three-story Connecticut State Prison building in Wethersfield, Connecticut, with trees, front lawn, and a white picket fence; there are two people walk towards the building, a horse-drawn cart in the driveway, and a carriage and a cow on the street in the foreground.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1836 and 1840
Call number: priJLC_POL_001020
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Inland Printer April

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Image of a woman sitting under an umbrella next to a cart full of flowers on a street; a watering can and several flowers in pots rest near the woman's feet; a well-dressed man and woman walk by; poster advertises the April 1897 issue of the Inland Printer trade magazine.

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State Street, Albany, : 1805

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Image of an eye-level street view of State Street in Albany, New York, depicted in the early 19th century, from the top of a hill with two men sawing a log before a storefront with the sign "Chair Manufa[cturer]," a horse-drawn cart, houses, storefronts, and a church, with hills in the distance.

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This may certify that ... was admitted a member of the Firemen's Benevolent Society of the city of Hartford

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Image of a blank membership certificate from the Firemen's Benevolent Society of Hartford, Connecticut, with a central image of firefighters with hoses, ladders, and manual fire engines amassed on the street and tree-filled park before the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut, to fight a fire burning in a nearby building labeled with the signs "Elihu Geer Job & Card Printer" and "Case Nevers & Co."; with surrounding buildings labeled "Eagle Tavern" "Exchange Office" and "Oswin Welles," and spectators and a displaced family with their household belongings standing on the street; with a small vignette of a fire hose carriage at bottom center; the image presumably depicts the August 9, 1839, fire in the Mitchell Building on State Street.

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Scene near Farmington, Ct. Autumn

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Image of a pastoral landscape near Farmington, Connecticut, with a cattle-drawn cart on a dirt road near a pond in foreground; hills in background extending beyond a row of dwellings.

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East Rock. New Haven

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Image of a landscape view of East Rock mountainous ridge in New Haven, Connecticut; workers haying in foreground at center near a dirt road and bridge; horse-drawn cart full of hay at center.

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Connecticut : city of New Haven

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Image of an eye-level landscape view of a waterfront scene with boats, and the city of New Haven, Connecticut, in the distance, in a shield motif; five vignettes of the seal of Connecticut, factories, and buildings and a park, with busts of Samuel Huntington and William Williams, two signers of the Declaration of Independence.

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