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[Railroad stations: Southbury, Conn.] – Historic Reproduction

[Railroad stations: Southbury, Conn.] — historic photograph
[Railroad stations: Southbury, Conn.]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots 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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[Railroad stations: Southbury, Conn.]

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Southbury, a small town in west-central Connecticut, is the place this record names, and the station itself is the stated subject. The notes date the print only to around the 1910s, a period when the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad carried most passenger and freight traffic across the state and modest depots like this one were central to village life. Photographs of ordinary stations were often made to document the rail network and its buildings, so the image offers a glimpse of rural travel just before automobiles and trucks began to reshape it.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[ca. 191-]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,000 × 2,197 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123841

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