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Daily Times Building, Putnam Building and Hartford City Gas Light Co., Main Street, Hartford

Date1905

MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper mounted on card

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 4 5/8 x 6 11/16in. (11.7 x 17cm)
Sheet (height x width): 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm)

Credit LineBequest of Ada Louise Taylor

DescriptionBrick and stone commercial buildings line a city street. Some have striped awnings, heavy cornices, balustrades, balconies, or plate glass shop windows. Striped poles near the corner indicates the presence of a barber shop. Signs read: "W.H. SCOVILLE" "...FOR POST CARDS" "...TIMES" "CITY GAS LIGHT COMPANY" "JOHN COOMBS FLORIST" "L.A. WILEY [& S]ON." Two bicycles are parked beside the curb. Utility poles and trolley poles line the street. A man or woman is visible through an open casement window at the far right.

Object number1956.84.189

MarkingsVerso, stamped in black ink, lower left: "F.D. Berry / HARTFORD, CONN."; lower right: "JUL 13 1905".InscribedRecto, inscribed in black ink in left margin: "Daily Times / Building".

Verso, inscribed in black ink on right margin: "The building on the exterior left is the 'Daily Times' office. / On the opposite, corner of Grove Street, is the Philadelphis / pressed brick building erected in 1842 for Asa Farwell / as his residence after the family vacated it was used / to this time for offices. It was also called the 'Putnam' / building as an insurance company of that name / had their office there. The next building south of that / was built & owned by Hfd City Gas Light Co. The next / south of that is the Universalist Society store & offices / which stands in front of their church in which are / the stores of John Coombs (florist) & L.A. Wiley & Sons. / These buildings extending from Grove street to the / gangway next the Aetna Insurance Co. will be torn down / to make a place for the new building of the Travelers / Insurance Co."; in pencil: "25 [in circle]"; in blue ink, in another hand: "C.H.S. / SAMUEL TAYLOR COLL."; in pencil, lower left, in a third hand: "neg #196"; accession number inscribed in pencil, upper left margin.

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