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Title	Businesses on the corner of Pearl Street and Ford Street, Hartford.
Creator	Berry, Fred D.
Place	Pearl Street (Hartford, Conn.) Ford Street (Hartford, Conn.)
Topic	Commercial buildings Barbershops Monuments Laundries Posters Photographic studios
Theme	Environment
Description	Frame commercial buildings line a street with trolley tracks in it. Trolley wires cross overhead. Signs on businesses read: "Photographs / and Tintypes" "Fine / Custom /shoe / Repairing" "Monuments" "Coal" "F.R. Slocum / Real Estate / Office / 340" "Roofing and Job Work" "Shield Bros. / Barber Shop" "Foley / Painters / and / Decorator / Contractor / and / Builder" "The High G Restaurant" "Lunch Ro[om] / Meals at all H[ours]" "Sam Wah / First Class / Laundry" "Enameling / Bicycle Repairing / C.H. Hurd" "Headquarters [for] Enameling Brasing / and General Bicycle Bicycle Repairing / Wheels Stored [for] the Winter." A painted sign on the brick building at the right reads: "Seidler & May / Furniture." A theatrical poster reads: "A / Red / Letter / Week / A.L. Reeves /Big Co. / Opera House / Oct 19-20-21." Granite gravestones are displayed in the lot on the corner. One building has a striped awning. A man stands behind a horse-drawn wagon which appears to contain boxes of produce. The steeple of Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church and the Gothic tower of the First Methodist Episcopal Church are in the background.Inscribed on back: "Appearance of Pearl Street (north side) corner of Ford / Street in 1899. These buildings were erected about 1840 / when the land was much lower & overflowed by the / freshets from Park River. The lower story of these houses is below the roadway and the street has been elevated not / less than 10 feet."
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. John C. Nyser was the photographer at 2 Ford Street. Charles F. Phillips was the boot and shoemaker at 6 Ford Street. Isaac Bennett was probably the proprietor of the High G Restaurant at 330 Pearl Street. William H. Shield and Richard M. Shield were the partners in Shield Brothers barbershop at 334 Pearl Street. George N. Seidler and Charles May were the partners in Seidler & May, a furniture store at 306-318 Pearl Street.
Date created	1899.
Physical format	1 photographic print ; 12 x 19 cm.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number 1956.84.117 File name 2830 img0060.pcd
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society.
Collection	Samuel Taylor Collection.
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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