From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Airlie Mills Inc., Hanover, Conn. 26.
View of a large brick factory building. 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 sent back to Belfast, Maine, and processed into postcards at the printing plant on High Street. The building pictured stood on The Little River, where earlier mills, including The Allen Woolen Company, had been. Angus Park purchased the Allen business early in the 20th century, building this structure in 1922 (as identified on the concrete plaque on the entrance tower) and naming it Airlie Mills.
