From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
A.E. White's Store, Somersville, Conn. 45.
View of a general store standing beside a rural road and a long, straight stretch of train tracks. 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 couple of early autos are parked outside A.E. White's General Store in this rural area of northeastern Connecticut. As did many such roadside retail establishments, White's occupies a converted house and advertises Motor Oil (Sinclair) and Ice Cream (Tait Bros).
