Front view of the Connecticut School for Boys, an illustration published in A Century of Meriden in 1906.
Evidence, credit & reuse: The same composition is reproduced in the 1912 reports under a 1912 caption. Do not present it as a photograph taken in 1912. Internet Archive metadata: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT; 1906 US publication. Photographers and engraving artists are uncredited on selected pages. Full scan retained; resized and JPEG compressed. Landscape plates rotated 90 degrees to reading orientation. No generative alteration. Orientation corrected September 8, 2026 using EXIF metadata; original compressed image data retained without alteration.
Source: Charles Bancroft Gillespie and George Munson Curtis; An historic record and pictorial description of the town of Meriden, Connecticut and men who have made it (A Century of Meriden), volume II. Volume II, p.67. Library of Congress copy; Internet Archive
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Silent Grounds Collective, Meriden Boys’ Home & School, SGC-MB-005, MB-005, “Front view of Connecticut School for Boys.” Source: Charles Bancroft Gillespie and George Munson Curtis; An historic record and pictorial description of the town of Meriden, Connecticut and men who have made it (A Century of Meriden), volume II. Volume II, p.67. Library of Congress copy; Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/historicrecordpi00gill/page/n526/mode/1up. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.