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Title	Bacon Academy, Colchester.
Creator	D.W. Kellogg & Co.
Place	Colchester (Conn.)
Topic	Schools School buildings Children
Topic-Organization, Vessel	Bacon Academy (Colchester, Conn.)
Theme	Infrastructure
Description	Three-story academic building with a cupola, a hip roof, four chimneys and an arched doorway. Boys and girls stand on the lawn. A man is at the left. Inscribed on stone beneath image: "Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn / Lith of D.W. Kellogg & Co. Hartford, Conn. / Bacon Academy. / The Institution, which derives its name from the late Pierpont Bacon, who gave his whole estate, estimated at about $35,000 to endow it, is situated in Colchester, a place pleasant, remarkably healthy and easy of access. / The government and instruction are committed to a Preceptor, one male and two or three female assistants, one of whom is expected to be qualified to teach a female school of a higher grade.... The Price of Tuition is for Latin and Greek, 6 dollars a Term, for Mathematics, Grammar, Geography and Arithmetic, 4 dollars, and for the elementary English Studies, 3 dollars a Term, with an additional charge of 50 cents for fuel, in each of the terms which include a portion of the winter...."<br>
Date created	[184-?]
Physical format	1 print: : lithograph ; 27 x 32 cm.<br>
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number X.2000.6.12<br>File name 0521 img0095.pcd<br>
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society
Collection	Kellogg Collection.<br>
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
Sub-collection	Prints

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