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Photo Archivist's Selection of the Month: June 2003
A Family
Photo Album
The
Isaac and
Franklin Wardwell
Family Photos
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This is a complementary
issue to the January 2003 selection.
As we saw then, Franklin Wardwell was very interested in good photos.
A number
of
photos below, many of them taken around 1900, show the eye of either
a gifted amateur or a professional photographer.
Most prints we have of the above were made from glass plates
at a much later date by Society volunteers. The plates may have deteriorated
by then: Some of the prints are not very good and required a lot
of editing for this page. Some flaws could not be edited out.
This explanatory sheet was with the photos.
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The Patriarch
and his family
| Isaac Wardwell in his garden. |
He married Frederica L. Shaw in 1847. She lived to 1911. |
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His twin sister Betsy, who survived him, married the Reverend William C. Hoyt in 1838.
Isaac was obviously greatly attached to her. |
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Dr. I.
Franklin Wardwell
| with his family on the ice outside the Stamford Yacht Club |
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| Franklin in costume. To act, or for a costume ball? |
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| The Franklin Wardwells had one daughter, Helen, the later Mrs. Charles A. Betts, Jr. |
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| Helen with her cousins, Margaret, the later Mrs. C. Ward Birch, and Bradford, Dr. Claison Wardwell's children |
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| Mrs. Franklin Wardwell with her sister, Susan Blodgett, and their mother, Mrs. Embury |
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Mrs. Wardwell at right
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Below: an unidentified photo. Sitting on the steps is Franklin Wardwell, it seems.
Gracious Living in Stamford, a 2004 Exhibit
Three Wardwell Homes on Elm Street
Photos © Stamford Historical Society
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