From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
R.R. Station, Quinebaug, Conn. 4X
View of a small wood frame passenger station and larger freight station adjacent. A "Stop/Look/Listen" railroad crossing warning sign is at the far left. 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. Shown is the small but elaborately decorated Quinebaug passenger station and, across the tracks, freight house at East Thompson/ New Boston (later named Quniebaug). The depot was built in 1873. Farmland is visible in the distance.
