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Colt's Armory, Hartford, Ct. – Antique Print

Colt's Armory, Hartford, Ct., [between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph
Colt's Armory, Hartford, Ct., [between 1900 and 1906]. Historic photograph from the Hartford collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Colt's Armory, Hartford, Ct., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Colt's Armory in Hartford, Connecticut, is the subject here: the sprawling brick factory complex where Samuel Colt's firearms company built revolvers and other guns. The Detroit Publishing Company captured it as a glass-plate negative in the early 1900s, a period when the company was producing large numbers of views of American industrial sites and cities for sale as photographic prints and travel catalogs. Colt had been manufacturing revolvers in Hartford since the 1850s, and by the turn of the century the armory was among the best-known gun factories in the country. The image records a working industrial landscape at a moment when mass production was reshaping American manufacturing.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1906]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). 2173" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018034. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsColt's Fire Arms Manufacturing Company--Buildings. Industrial facilities. Firearms industry.United States--Connecticut--Hartford.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-61644

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