Map of Hartford, East Hartford, and West Hartford
PublisherPublished by
Interstate Publishing Co., Inc.
(American, active 1950s-1960s)
Date1950-1960
MediumLithography; black printer's ink on wove paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 27 7/8 x 17in. (70.8 x 43.2cm)
Sheet (height x width): 34 1/8 x 21 7/8in. (86.7 x 55.6cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
Object number2012.312.158
DescriptionStreet map of the towns of Hartford, East Hartford and West Hartford, Connecticut. Oriented so that north points to the right side of the sheet and the Connecticut River appears horizontally across the lower portion of the map. Streets, parks, golf courses, colleges, hospitals and cemeteries are all labeled. Natural features include rivers, coves and ponds. The five locations of the Society for Savings, the distributor of the map, are denoted with solid black squares and numbers. Street indexes for the three towns and points of interest are located around the left and bottom borders.
Label TextRentschler Field, which in 2003 would open as a football stadium, was still an airport when this map was issued, sometime in the 1950s or early 1960s. Interstates 84 and 91 had yet to be constucted, and urban renewal, which would transform so much of downtown Hartford by the late 1960s, still lay in the future. Though the map was distributed by Society for Savings, a Hartford savings bank, to show the locations of its branches, it was also a useful guide for anyone seeking to find his way through the maze of streets that made up the city of Hartford and the town of East Hartford, a suburb on the opposite side of the Connecticut River.
NotesCartographic Note: Scale: About 2 inches equals 3000 feetStatus
Not on view
R. A. Welcke Offset Co.
probably 1967
