From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Sketucket (sic.) River Dam, Baltic, Conn. 16K
View of a river looking upstream below a dam. This image is part of a series made by one of the three Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company photographers assigned to cover New England or upstate New York. The quest for images that would be saleable as postcards resulted in the documentation of small towns and small town life at the turn of the 20th century. As the photos were shot, the glass plates were promptly sent back to Belfast, Maine, and processed into postcards at the printing plant on High Street. This summertime image of the Baltic dam, which served the nearby Baltic textile mill, shows low water flowing over the dam and passing by a stony islet with a tree on it. The dam washed away in the 1955 flood.
