Hartford, Connecticut, 1909 – Vintage Photo Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Hartford, Connecticut, 1909. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Pope Mfg. Co. #2, Hartford, Conn.
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Hartford, Connecticut, 1909
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Hartford in 1909 was a city of nearly a hundred thousand people whose industrial reputation rested partly on boilers and the engineers who inspected them. The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, founded there in 1866, sent inspectors into factories across the country to test the pressure vessels that powered mills and shops, and its reports made the city a quiet center of industrial safety. Up the hill from the river, Asylum Hill held the large brick houses of manufacturers and merchants, while workers streamed toward the day shift on the streets below. Church steeples and smokestacks competed for space along the skyline, and residents measured their city by how much steam and steel its plants could produce.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Connecticut |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,295 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pope Mfg. Co. #2, Hartford, Conn. |
| Reference | CT Hartford 4 1909 |
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