From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Main St., Groton, VT. 32.
Scene in a village center, viewed at an angle across a wide dirt street on a summer day. Taken at the beginnning of the motor-touring era, the view takes in a small town during its gradual transition from horse-powered to gasoline-powered automobile transportation. At center, a man waits in his horse-driven carriage parked by the new sidewalk. Ahead is a parked car. Fronting the rutted street is a row of mid-19th century houses, some of which have converted commercial storefronts. Telephone poles and wires denote additional 20th-century developments. One of these is the Lee S. Blanchard Store, offering Socony Gas, with a cylindrical pump mounted at the edge of the sidewalk, and "General Merchandise" inside.
