Waterbury, Connecticut, 1913 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Waterbury, Connecticut, 1913 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Waterbury, Conn.
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Waterbury, Connecticut, 1913
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In 1913, Waterbury, Connecticut, was still a city built around its brass and metal mills, but the year fell just before the European war sent munitions orders flooding into the Naugatuck Valley and pushed the brass industry to its wartime peak. Brass mills, factory yards and rows of worker housing crowded the valley floor, and the streets below the hills carried streetcars and foot traffic between shifts. Residents measured their days by the factory schedules, and many families still had close ties to the old country, which shaped the parishes, lodges and mutual aid societies found throughout the neighborhoods. For most people in 1913, Waterbury meant steady work in the mills, a city whose fortunes rose and fell with the price of copper and the orders that came in from distant buyers.
| Created / published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Creator | barreuther, h. (henry) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Connecticut |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 918 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Waterbury, Conn. |
| Reference | CT Waterbury 2 1913 |
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