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Title	Back view of New Departure factory, Bristol.
Place	Main Street (Bristol, Conn.)
Topic	Bearings industry Railroads -- Freight-cars Bicycle industry Industrial buildings
Topic-Organization, Vessel	New Departure Company
Theme	Livelihood
Description	Large smokestack on left and a smaller one to the right. A brick factory building and a vertical sided barn are mid view with a large tank (water or oil?). Behind the buildings is a railroad track with freight train of boxcars. A high overhead open gabled structure is over the train cars and there is a woodpile to the right of a small building with picket fence leaning on it about mid image. Beyond the tracks in the background is a city streetscape of 2-story houses. On the right is a large masonry building and a church.<br>
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. <br>Organized in 1889 by Albert F. Rockwell, New Departure made doorbells, ball bearings, coaster brakes, bells and bicycle accessories. Main location was 259 North Main Street and Riverside Avenue at the corner of Downs Street in Bristol. By 1920, other plants were in the Elmwood section of West Hartford, Meriden and East Bristol in Connecticut, plus Detroit, Michigan and Chicago Illinois. <br>
Date created	[ca. 1917]
Physical format	1 photographic print ; 9 x 17 cm.<br>
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number 1995.19.67<br>File name 0540 img0013.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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