The Story of the Charter Oak to accompany the picture by Charles D'Wolf Brownell
Hartford, Conn. The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company 1883. First Edition. 57 pages. 5 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches. Stiff wrappers with thin leather covering. Embossed gilt tree decoration and titling on front cover. Albumen photograph frontispiece of Jewell by Brownell. Another albumen photograph on plate inserted opposite page 20, of the Charter Oak Mug. Stitching loosening, but still holding. Very Good. Stiff wraps. [24511]
"The Charter Oak was an unusually large white oak tree growing, from around the 12th or 13th century until it fell during a storm in 1856, on what the English colonists named Wyllys Hyll, in Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States. According to tradition, Connecticut's Royal Charter of 1662 was hidden within the hollow of the tree to thwart its confiscation by the English governor-general. The oak became a symbol of American independence and is commemorated on the Connecticut State Quarter." (wiki)
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