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Title	Billings & Spencer Company: exterior of factory building, Hartford.
Place	Lawrence Street (Hartford, Conn.) Russ Street (Hartford, Conn.)
Topic	Industrial buildings Machine parts industry
Topic-Organization, Vessel	Billings & Spencer Co
Theme	Livelihood
Description	Large brick industrial building. The entrance is through a corner tower with rounded arches and a corbel table below the parapet. A sign above the door reads "The Billings & Spencer Co." A sign on the door reads "Office." There is a striped awning on one window. Ivy grows on the building. An iron fence surrounds it. Utility poles line the street. A vacant lot on the opposite corner of the intersection is overgrown with weeds.<br>
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. <br>Billings & Spencer had factories on Russ Street, at the corner of Lawrence Street, at 1 Laurel Street and on Capitol Avenue. The company manufactured drop forgings for pistols, sewing machines, locomotives, trolleys and "machines of every description." <br>
Date created	[ca. 1910]
Physical format	1 photographic print ; 16 x 21 cm.<br>
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number X.2000.14.2<br>File name 0555 img0085.pcd<br>
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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