From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Powder Hollow, Hazardville, Conn. 4.
A small truss bridge is reflected in the calm water of a rver below. 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. This is probably the Scantic River, which powered the gunpowder works in Hazardville. The plant was decomissioned in 1913; the image may well post date that time.
