From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
J.H. Sessions & Son Mill, Bristol, Conn. 91.
Image of a large, turn of the 20th century factory plant. 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. Shown are the buildings of the J.H. Sessions & Son foundry built in 1906. They include a four-story brick and stone factory, a six-story stair and water tower, and a low structure for japanning with a clerestory monitor roof. A tall smoke stack is at the right. The company did the quintessential Connecticut work of hardware production -- churning out castings for trunk fittings, lamps, clocks, machine tools, locomotives, sugar refineries and heating plants. [source: ctmills.org]
