From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Store and Post Office, Hanover, Conn. 27.
Image of a small, single-story shingled building with large windows and a hip roof. 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. A cat stetches out lazily on the front stoop of this newly built rural store and post office. An advertisement for Salada Tea and stacked cans of food are visible in the windows. An early auto is parked at the left.
