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Aero View of Middletown, Connecticut 1915.
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Title
Aero
View
of
Middletown
,
Connecticut
1915
.
Creator
Hughes & Bailey.
Place
Connecticut River
Middletown (Conn.)
Topic
Psychiatric hospitals
Railroad bridges
Topic-Organization, Vessel
Connecticut Valley Railroad
Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)
Genre
Bird's-eye views
Theme
Environment
Infrastructure
Description
Bird's-eye
view
of a
city
on the
Connecticut
River
.
Two
iron
drawbridges
cross
the
river
at the
upper
right
.
Steamboats
,
barges
,
yachts
, and a
single
sailing
vessel
are on the
river
. The
Connecticut
Valley
Railroad
runs
along
the
west
bank
of the
river
. The
Airline
Railroad
crosses
the
river
on
one
of the
iron
bridges
. The
buildings
of
Wesleyan
University
are on the
west
edge
of
town
. The
buildings
of the
Connecticut
Asylum
for the
Insane
are in the
foreground
.
House
,
churches
, and
commercial
buildings
line
the
streets
.
Industries
depicted
in
vignettes
include
the
Russell
Manufacturing
Co
.,
W
.
&
B
.
Douglas
, the
New
England
Enameling
Co
., the
I.E
.
Palmer
Co
., the
Hubbard
Motor
Co
., the
Rockfall
Woolen
Co
., and the
Noiseless
Typewriter
Co
.
Other
vignettes
depict
banks
,
insurance
companies
,
restaurants
, and
other
businesses
Notes
Perspective
map
not
drawn
to
scale
.
Hughes
&
Bailey
,
Publishers
,
39
Gold
St
.,
New
York
.
T.M
.
Fowler
,
Del
.
New
York
:
Hughes
&
Bailey
,
1915
.
Publisher
New York : Hughes & Bailey, 1915.
Physical format
1
print
:
lithograph
;
61
x
93
cm
.
Identifier
Accession
number
:
x.1986.149.0
image/jp2
File
name
:
chs_x_1986_149_0.jp2
Source
The
Connecticut
Historical
Society
Rights
Reproduction
and
copyright
information
regarding
this
image
is
available
from The
Graphics
Collection
of The
Connecticut
Historical
Society
,
Hartford
.
Sub-collection
Birds eye views
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