Annual Peace Meeting, looking toward Mystic River

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:2612

Persons

Creator (cre): Newbury, Edward H., 1867-1960

Title

Annual Peace Meeting, looking toward Mystic River

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1894

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

Crowds assembled for the Annual Peace Meeting, held on grounds between High Street and River Road in Mystic. Carriages and pedestrians, both men and women, can be seen. To the right, painting on an umbrella reads:"H&P&W 5 Cigar". View is toward the north, with the Mystic River and Groton and Stonington side riverfronts visible, including part of Elm Grove cemetery in the right background. Handwritten on back: "At 'Peace Meeting' Aug 1894".

Genre

Subject

Geographic Subject

Elm Grove Cemetery (New London County, Conn.)

Burrows Grove (Conn.)

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph ; 3 9/16 x 4 9/16 in.

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Note

Note Type	source note
Note	Newbury Collection

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Environment

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Lifestyle

Note

Title supplied by cataloger. The Peace Meeting was held at the Peace Sanctuary in Burrows Grove, in the Great Hill area between High Street and River Road on the west (Groton) side of the Mystic River. The Greenman brothers were supporters of these meetings, held in the post-Civil War period to the 1890's. They closed their business and gave their workers a paid holiday to attend the meeting each year. Taken by Edward H. Newbury, a Mystic businessman and amateur photographer. Mounted on white card, round corners.

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1980.41.179

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Annual Peace Meeting, looking toward Mystic River

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