Photographs: Scope of the Collection
Generoso DiPippo, 1914 (click to enlarge)
The Society’s large photographic collection includes daguerreotypes, tintypes, ambrotypes, albumin
prints, gelatin silver prints, glass plate negatives, film negatives (black & white and color), and color slides. The photographs in this collection date from the mid 19th century to the present.
Views of Torrington by local nineteenth century photographers such as Christie Siebert and F.O. Hills can be found in this photographic archive. The strengths of the collection are street scenes, both amateur and professional, from around 1890 to 1920. Most of these street scenes are located in downtown Torrington and reveal people, places, institutions, and events which shaped Torrington’s history.
Our large collection of group photos includes manufacturing company clambakes, school graduations, and athletic teams. We have a continuing interest in collecting portraits and snapshots of local people, places and events.
Our three largest collections of photographs are by local photogrpahers:
John Norton Brooks
James Miller
Richard Schlott
The oldest photographic scene in our collection is a daguerreotype of the Dayton Organ Factory
on Main Street in the north end.
The most famous photographer in our collection is Margaret Bourke White. We hold five prints
which she made for Life Magazine from negatives taken on August 27, 1955 documenting Torrington’s
recovery from the flood of August 19, 1955.
Header Photo: E.J. Kelly and Crew, Ca. 1920
prints, gelatin silver prints, glass plate negatives, film negatives (black & white and color), and color slides. The photographs in this collection date from the mid 19th century to the present.
Views of Torrington by local nineteenth century photographers such as Christie Siebert and F.O. Hills can be found in this photographic archive. The strengths of the collection are street scenes, both amateur and professional, from around 1890 to 1920. Most of these street scenes are located in downtown Torrington and reveal people, places, institutions, and events which shaped Torrington’s history.
Our large collection of group photos includes manufacturing company clambakes, school graduations, and athletic teams. We have a continuing interest in collecting portraits and snapshots of local people, places and events.
Our three largest collections of photographs are by local photogrpahers:
John Norton Brooks
James Miller
Richard Schlott
The oldest photographic scene in our collection is a daguerreotype of the Dayton Organ Factory
on Main Street in the north end.
The most famous photographer in our collection is Margaret Bourke White. We hold five prints
which she made for Life Magazine from negatives taken on August 27, 1955 documenting Torrington’s
recovery from the flood of August 19, 1955.
Header Photo: E.J. Kelly and Crew, Ca. 1920