Averill building after a fire, 420-424 Main Street, Hartford, January 1887
PhotographerPhotographed by
Thomas Waite
British-American, 1859 - 1924
Date1887
MediumPhotography; 13 x 19 cm.
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 5 1/8 x 7 1/2in. (13 x 19cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
DescriptionTwo brick commercial building damaged by fire. The roofs are gone, most windows are missing or broken and most shutters are missing or damaged. The first-floor storefronts appear to be burned-out. Ice and icicles hang from the ruins and from surrounding buildings. Spectators stand on the sidewalk. Rubble and debris are in the street.A horse appears to be hitched to a wagon.
Object number2000.190.7
InscribedOn verso: "Averill Building / Main Street (east side) / opposite Church St. / Numbers / Burned Sunday January 9, 1887. / Thompson /Sawyer /T.R. Laughton (Reporter on Times) / suffocated during the fire / in Sawyer Geo [?] Store."NotesSubject Note: Thomas R. Laughton was a city reporter for the Daily Times and clerk at the Hartford Fire Department. He lived at 36 Church Street. ;George O. Sawyer & Co. sold ladies goods at 420 Main Street.On View
Not on view
Reverend Henry Clay Trumbull
between 1864 and 1865
