Print, Photographic

Sepia-toned photograph of the music room of the home of Catharine Butler Dusenbury Shelden at 196 West Fort Street, on a page taken from a photo album. The room contains a piano, a screen, and several works of art including small statues, china, and a portrait painting of Catharine Shelden by Eastman Johnson. A portrait painting of her husband, Allan Shelden, by Lewis T. Ives hangs above the mantle in the house's library, visible in the background through the doors to the left of the center of the frame. The lower left corner of the page is embossed with the mark of C.M. Hayes and Company. Several notes about the photo are handwritten on the verso of the page, "Residence of Mrs. Allan Shelden 196 W. Fort St. Built 1885," "Another view of the music room. The portrait in this room is of Mrs. Allen Shelden. This view from into the library. The portrait of Mr. Allan Shelden over the mantle piece," and "All lighting in Shelden house was gas."