Hands on the Past

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I very much like this photograph I am calling "Hands on the Past."  Though there is no indication of who these boys were, my guess is that this daguerreotype is of Isaac Hagaman and his brother, Theodore. Theodore,  four years older than Isaac was born in 1839 and died in 1900.  Isaac Hagaman, who donated the funds for the construction of the present library building, was born in 1843 and died in 1925.

East Haven Topics And Shopping Guide

This 1953 issue of East Haven Topics and Shopping Guide announces the twenty-fifth anniversary of the present library building. The photograph was taken in 1938  when the the building was ten years old just before the hurricane of that year took down the elm tree shown in the picture.

If anyone has issues of East Haven Topics and would be willing to loan them to the library for digitization, please let us know.