From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
LB2021.17.51511
View of a large, multi-story brick building on a street with trolley lines. 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. The 6-story building looms over the street on its corner site between a residential and industrial area of town. The structure was associated with the New Departures Manufacturing Company, which made small mechanical parts and ball bearings at the time this structure was built during the first or second decade of the 20th century.
