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Image Not Available for Main Street, New Britain, Conn.
Main Street, New Britain, Conn.
Image Not Available for Main Street, New Britain, Conn.

Main Street, New Britain, Conn.

Datebefore 1906
MediumPhotomechanical print; colored printer's inks on postcard
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 x 5 3/8in. (7.6 x 13.7cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 1/2 x 5 3/8in. (8.9 x 13.7cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. W. Thurston Rowley
DescriptionHorse-drawn vehicles and a trolley are on a broad city street. A few men and women walk in the street and on the paved sidewalks. Commercial buildings are on the left and right. Utility poles line the street. A church and a war memorial are in the background.
Object number1984.7.121
MarkingsOn verso, postmarks printed in black inkInscribedOn verso, in black ink, "Master Thurston Rowley / North Bloomfield / Conn. /c/o Mrs. G. B. Thurston"; in pencil, lower right, accession numberNotesThe monument in the background is the Soldiers' Monument, a Civil War memorial designed by Ernest Flagg (1857-1947) and erected in 1899. (Finlay 9/13/2011)
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