Container List Record
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Object ID number |
2013.04.091 |
Container |
Box 3 |
Description |
Typed page reports Colonial house at 932 Main Street built ca. 1750, at least half-a-century before Abner Reed bought it in 1811 to use as printing shop and engraving school. He designed and engraved bank notes for United States and Canadian banks. Local historian reports "sheets of bank-notes were sun-dried on clothes lines in back yard." Abner Reed published books, was deacon of the church, served as town clerk, represented South Windsor in the Connecticut General Assembly. He took up stipple engraving in 1805 and experimented with aquatint. He was trained as a saddler's apprentice. Two similar pages included. |