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East Main Street, Meriden.
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Title
East
Main
Street
,
Meriden
.
Place
East Main Street (Meriden, Conn.)
Topic
Commercial buildings
Trolley cars
Central business districts
Railroads -- Crossings
Storefronts
Theme
Environment
Description
Frame
and
brick
commercial
buildings
line
a
dirt
street
. An
electric
trolley
car
is
on
tracks
in the
middle
of the
street
.
Railroad
tracks
cross
the
street
.
Gates
for
barring
the
crossing
are at the
left
and
right
.
Horse-drawn
carriages
and
wagons
are in the
street
.
Men
and
women
are on the
sidewalks
.
Signs
on
businesses
read
: "
Law
Office
" "
First
Class
/
Shine
5
cts
" "
Ladies
Shoes
/
Shined
/
Chairs
Reserved
" "
All
Kinds
of
/
Straw
Hats
/
Pressed
and
Cleaned
" "
Halls
Cash
Meat
Market
" "
Lunch
Room
" "
Boston
/
Branch
/
Boots
/
Shoes
" "
Open
House
Drug
Store
" "
Magee
/
Ranges
" "
Hardw[are]
" "
Sprewenburg
/
&
Co
.
/
Pipes.
" "
Cigars.
"
Some
buildings
have
striped
awnings
.
Utility
poles
and
wires
line
the
streets
. A
gas
street
light
is
in the
left
foreground
.
Inscribed
on
back
: "
About
1904
/
Meriden.
"
Notes
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Rufus
Hall
was the
proprietor
of
Hall's
Cash
Meat
Market
at
3
East
Main
Street
.
Jacob
B
.
Sprewenburg
was the
proprietor
of a
pipe
and
cigar
store
at
10
East
Main
Street
.
Date created
[ca
.
1904]
Physical format
1
photographic
print
;
16
x
21
cm
.
Digital format
image/jpeg
Identifier
Accession
number
X.2000.35.97
File
name
2494
img0072.pcd
Source
The
Connecticut
Historical
Society
.
Rights
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and
copyright
information
regarding
this
image
is
available
from The
Graphics
Collection
, The
Connecticut
Historical
Society
,
Hartford
.
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