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Main Street looking north from Asylum Street, Hartford.
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Title
Main
Street
looking
north
from
Asylum
Street
,
Hartford
.
Place
559-942 Main Street (Hartford, Conn.)
Topic
Commercial buildings
Storefronts
Department stores
Opticians
Topic-Organization, Vessel
Sage, Allen & Co
Brown, Thompson & Co
Theme
Environment
Description
Brick
commercial
buildings
line
a
city
street
.
Some
buildings
have
awnings
. A
large
clock
is
on the
sidewalk
at the
right
. A
large
pair
of
eyeglasses
serves
as a
sign
on the
left
.
Merchandise
displayed
on the
sidewalk
includes
baskets
.
Signs
read
: "
559
-
Francis
&
Co
.
-
559
" "
Hardware
/
Nails
,
Sash
Weights
,
Cordage
" "
Harvey
&
Lewis
/
Opticians
" "
Soby's
" "
[Sage]
Allen
&
Co.
" "
Capitol
Loan
/...Money
Loaned
/
Watches
/
and
/
Diamonds.
" The
brownstone
buildings
in the
right
background
is
the
Cheney
Block
housing
Brown
,
Thomson
&
Co
.
Men
and
women
crowd
the
sidewalks
. A
woman
, a
girl
and a
dog
,
probably
a
terrier
,
cross
the
street
,
which
has
trolley
tracks
and
horse
manure
in
it
. A
trolley
car
,
horse-drawn
carriages
and an
automobile
,
probably
an
electric
automobile
are in the
street
.
Gas
street
lights
hang
from
utility
poles
.
Inscribed
on
back
: "
Htfd
.
/
Main
St
.
looking
N
. from
Asylum
ca.
1902.
"<br>
Notes
Sage
,
Allen
&
Co
. was a
department
store
selling
dry
goods
and
silks
at
898
Main
Street
. The
partners
were
Jerome
E
.
Sage
,
Normand
F
.
Allen
and
Clifford
O
.
Moore
. <br>
Brown
,
Thomson
&
Co
. was a
department
store
selling
dry
goods
,
millinery
,
children's
clothing
,
books
,
boots
and
shoes
at
920-942
Main
Street
. <br>
Foster
E
.
Harvey
and
Robert
H
.
Lewis
were
opticians
at
865
Main
Street
. <br>
Date created
[ca
.
1902]
Physical format
1
photographic
print
;
13
x
18
cm
.<br>
Digital format
image/jpeg
Identifier
Accession
number
X.2000.37.197
<br>
File
name
2802
img0034.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
.
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