Ellsworth N. Phelps House
Negative, Glass-plate
1902 (Date manufactured/created)
One of the set of 75 glass-plate negatives taken by the A.W. and G.E. Howes Brothers Company, a company of itinerant photographers from Ashfield, Massachusetts, in 1902.
Image shows a white Georgian style house with three large, leaf-less trees in the foreground, white picket fence, small front porch/portico mostly hidden behind center tree, bay window extension on the right hand side of the house, shed/tobbaco barn to the far left. Two African American women in the foreground - one sitting in chair, one standing behind her. This house is presumed to be located on "The Island" due to the identification of the other numbered negatives in the sequence.
The Col. Ellsworth N. Phelps home stood just to the south of the Loomis Homestead and was acquired by the Loomis Institute and eventually torn down. The Loomis Chaffee School library stands in this approximate location. Phelps enlisted in the 22nd Regiment from Windsor to serve in the Civil War. When he returned to Windsor he brought along Samuel Scott, a young black man who had been his servent. Scott's sons and daughter-in-law also worked for Phelps and some of the Scott family members may be the women in this photograph.
Image shows a white Georgian style house with three large, leaf-less trees in the foreground, white picket fence, small front porch/portico mostly hidden behind center tree, bay window extension on the right hand side of the house, shed/tobbaco barn to the far left. Two African American women in the foreground - one sitting in chair, one standing behind her. This house is presumed to be located on "The Island" due to the identification of the other numbered negatives in the sequence.
The Col. Ellsworth N. Phelps home stood just to the south of the Loomis Homestead and was acquired by the Loomis Institute and eventually torn down. The Loomis Chaffee School library stands in this approximate location. Phelps enlisted in the 22nd Regiment from Windsor to serve in the Civil War. When he returned to Windsor he brought along Samuel Scott, a young black man who had been his servent. Scott's sons and daughter-in-law also worked for Phelps and some of the Scott family members may be the women in this photograph.
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