Colt children's memorial font inside a Hartford church. This baptismal font at Hartford's Church of the Good Shepherd commemorates three children of Samuel and Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt. It adds family memorial history to the Portland house story.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Context image in Hartford, not on the Elmcrest campus. Corroboration: https://www.coltsville.org/church-of-the-good-shepherd identifies Hettie's gift and the 1899 fall through the floor. Photo of historical sculpture, not Elmcrest Hospital or its burial ground. Maintain Hartford context label. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Photograph CC BY-SA 4.0. Sculpture public domain per Commons dating.
Source: Marty Aligata; sculpture John M. Moffitt / Wikimedia Commons
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Silent Grounds Collective, Elmcrest Hospital & the Colt Connection, SGC-EC-016, ED-H2-HT-SP-035, “Memorial font for three Colt children — Hartford context.” Source: Marty Aligata; sculpture John M. Moffitt / Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptismal_Font_at_Church_of_the_Good_Shepherd,_Hartford,_CT.jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-12.