Price: $385.00
SKU: 50027
PUBLISHER: Published by Kramer & Co., Boston.
MEDIUM: Lithograph; original coloring,
DATE: c. 1860.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 11 3/4 x 19 1/4" (295 x 490 mm).
DESCRIPTION: The following description was copied from The Hillsborourgh County, New Hampshire. 1885. The State Industrial School — The movement which resulted in the establishment of this institution was started in 1855, when the Legislature passed an act authorizing the Governor and Council to appoint a board of three commissioners, empowered to buy a tract of land and erect buildings thereon, to provide a “house of reformation for juvenile and female offenders against the laws.” The commissioners—the Hon. Frederick Smyth, of Manchester, the Hon. Matthew Harvey, of Concord, and Hosea Eaton, of New Ipswich—were appointed that year, and selected, as the site for the house proposed, the farm which was once the home of General John Stark, two miles north of the city hall, on the east bank of the Merrimack River, containing about one hundred acres. The price paid was ten thousand dollars, and another piece of ten acres was bought soon after for a thousand dollars more. the spring of 1856, finished in the autumn of 1857 and furnished in the spring of 1858. Its cost was thirty-four thousand dollars; the total cost of building and land was forty-five thousand dollars. The house was dedicated on the 12th of May, 1858, and occupied at that time, when the first superintendent, Brooks Shattuck, was appointed. He was succeeded, on the 20th of April, 1866, by Isaac H. Jones. Upon his departure Edward Ingham was elected, the 17th of May, 1870. The present superintendent, John C. Ray, was appointed on the 2d of July, 1874. The institution is now known as the State Industrial School, and is under the management of a board of seven trustees, by whom the superintendent is chosen, and who are appointed by the Governor and Council. A fire, on the 20th of December, 1865, nearly destroyed the building, and the children were temporarily kept in the buildings known as the “Stark house” and “Gamble house,” which had stood near by since the early settlement of the town. During their residence in it the “Stark house” was set on fire and consumed. As soon as possible after the fire the old school building was repaired and the inmates returned to it. This print was likely found bound into a prospectus for the school.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Fair to good condition and color. Four soft vertical and horizontal creases. (As Issued) Backed on rice paper.
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