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Image Not Available for Cole and Ambler employees, Bethel.
Cole and Ambler employees, Bethel.
Image Not Available for Cole and Ambler employees, Bethel.

Cole and Ambler employees, Bethel.

Date1880-1890
MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 6 5/16 x 8 11/16in. (16 x 22cm)
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
DescriptionGroup of Cole and Ambler male employees in Bethel dressed with gathered-front leather aprons in front of vertical board and batten frame structure of at least two stories high. Fourteen men and boys who wears a hat and bib apron. Wood sidewalk. Attached building on left is clapboard.
Object number2000.191.275
InscribedOn verso,: "Cole and Ambers" [sic]; "near Fountain"; "Brookfield, Conn"NotesConstituent Note: Some photographs in this collection bear the imprint of the Northern Survey Company.

Subject Note: Cole and Ambler were fur hat manufacturer from 1868 to 1896. They appear in 1879 on Wooster Street in Bethel.
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