From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Lovers Rock, Lake Compounce, Bristol, Conn. 112.
Image of a large rock 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. Lover's Rock was probably a fairly well-known curiosity at Lake Compounce Park, which had been open to the public since 1864.
