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Cheney block (Brown Thomson building), 920-942 Main Street, Hartford.

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Title	Cheney block (Brown Thomson building), 920-942 Main Street, Hartford.
Place	920-942 Main Street (Hartford, Conn.)
Topic	Commercial buildings Department stores Automobiles Bicycles
Topic-Person	Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson) 1838-1886
Topic-Organization, Vessel	Brown, Thompson & Co
Theme	Livelihood Environment Infrastructure
Description	Exterior view of the Cheney block, a Richardsonian Romanesque commercial building of rock-faced brownstone, with round arches and square towers at the corners. Striped awnings are over some windows. Brown, Thomson & company, a department store, occupies the ground floor. Merchandise, including women's dresses, bodices and fabrics, are displayed in large plate glass shop windows. Signs read: "Brown / Thomson / & Company" "Great Sale..." Stenciled on upper windows are signs that read: "C.K. Bryant / Dentist" "Harry Pepper / Vocal Studio" "Millinery." An automobile and a bicycle are by the sidewalk. Trolley tracks are in the street. A man stands by a fire hydrant on the corner.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. The Cheney block, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, was erected 1876 as investment for two brothers in the family that owned the Cheney silk mills in Manchester. Brown, Thomson & Company advertised itself as "Connecticut's biggest department store" and "Hartford's Great Shopping Center."
Date created	[ca. 1910]
Physical format	1 photographic print ; 25 x 21 cm.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number 1969.3.1.68 File name 0530 img0088.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.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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