Name/Title
LithographEntry/Object ID
2023.205.001Scope and Content
Lithograph print of Charter Oak in frame made of bark, 16.75" x 20", made by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, 1856. Signed, "This is an accurate representation, I.W. Stuart." Charter oak medallion taped to the front of the frame. Several news clippings and handwritten notes are taped to the back.
"This picture was made from a view taken for the Hon. I.W. Stuart on the morning of its pull, Aug. 21, 1856, and presented to a Mr. McKester of Hartford who in turn gave it to Andrew E. Kinney of Willimantic in about the year of 1867, and in 1908 it came into the possesion of L.E. Kinney of Mystic. The frame was made from the bark of this tree in 1856 or 1857"Collection
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