From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
New Hartford House, New Hartford, Conn. 47.
View of 19th century commercial buildings on a small downtown intersection. The street at the right leads down to a bridge. 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 is the corner of Main and Bridge Streets around 1920. The Eastern photographer positions his camera at the main intersection of New Hartford's tiny downtown to face the corner entrance of the New Hartford House hotel with its picturesque Victorian tower and flagpole. Both street sides of the block are visible. A covered balcony running the entire length of the second story wraps around the corner.
