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Hartford residents on annual trip to New York City. Title main Hartford residents on annual trip to New York City. Subject New York (N.Y.) Hartford (Conn.) Subject Tour buses Electric vehicles Category Lifestyle Infrastructure Description Driver in uniform and passengers in electric bus parked at the side of a New York City street. All of the women wear elaborate hats. One woman wears a veil. A second uniformed man sits behind the driver. Signs on the side of the vehicle read: "No. 6" "Green Car Sight Seeing Service / B'way & 23rd St. / Hotel Bartholdi." Inscribed on back: "Back row (4 women R-L) Anna Burns, Alice and Agnes (best friends of Burns) / Dungan, Mary Burns (twin sister of Anna) on annual trip/ to NYC over Labor Day weekend. $10.00 each per room, meals & transportation. Circa 1905-10 (They would have been 19-23)." Description notes Title supplied by cataloger. Anna and Mary Burns were both stenographers who worked at the Electric Vehicle Co., 1 Laurel Street, Hartford. They lived together at 27 Irving Street. Agnes and Alice Dungan were also stenographers at the Electric Vehicle Co. they lived at 78 Morris Street. Date created [between 1905 and 1910] Format extent 1 photographic print ; 13 x 21 cm. Format medium image/jpeg Identifier Accession number 1986.32.5 File name 0552 img0056.pcd Source The Connecticut Historical Society. Rights Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. SeqNum 1229 ObjCol Photographs

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