From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
M.T. Dartt Store, Quinebaug Conn. 1.
Image of a clapboard building with a gable roof and barn adjacent. 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. Here is M.T. Dartt's large general store in Quinebaug, a rural town in agricultural area of eastern Connecticut. Signs indicate the space also contained the Post Office, and that it carried groceries, dry goods and "Pan-American Fireworks -The Best". Two men, at least one of them likely a Dartt, pose for the photographer in windows at the right. At the left is a hand water pump.
