From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Barkhamsted Post Office, Barkhamsted, Conn. 88.
View of a simple, frame gable-roof building facing an unpaved intersection in a rural setting. 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. In this shot the Eastern photographer has chosen to include the back of his company car with the labeled box, at the far right. The rural Barkamsted Conn. Post Office appears to have had the entire little building to itself.
