From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Fairlawn Ave., Hazardville, Conn.
View looking up an unpaved residential street with a green at the right. 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 scene shows an affluent neighborhood, with a handsome Colonial Revival house at the left, and a large Greek Revival house on the next spacious lot beyond. Across the street is a green shaded by trees. These larger homes may have been built by wealth generated by the local gunpowder industry, which supplied 40% of the material used in the Civil War.
