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Charter Oak Life Insurance Company: construction site, corner of Main Street and Atheneum Street, Hartford, July 1, 1869.

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Title	Charter Oak Life Insurance Company: construction site, corner of Main Street and Atheneum Street, Hartford, July 1, 1869.
Place	240 Main Street (Hartford, Conn.)
Topic	Bricklayers Building sites Insurance companies Construction workers
Topic-Organization, Vessel	Charter Oak Life Insurance Company
Theme	Environment Livelihood
Description	Workmen at construction site. Walls of brick and stone rise from a dirt foundation. Wooden beams for the first story floor are in place. Cranes are being used to hoist construction materials. Some men wear overalls or aprons. Bricklayers, one holding a trowel, are in the right background. Wheelbarrows, buckets and ropes are also visible. The brick wall of the adjoining building at the left shows the profile of an earlier building on the site. The Wadsworth stable, houses and other outbuildings on Prospect Street are in the background.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. The Charter Oak Life Insurance Company was located at 240 Main Street. The company failed in 1878. The building was later occupied by the Aetna Life Insurance Co.
Date created	1869
Physical format	1 photographic print ; 19 x 24 cm.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number 1959.81.75 File name 0543 img0071.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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