Sullivan's Pharmacy, Watertown, Conn. 24.

Sullivan's Pharmacy, Watertown, Conn. 24.

View of a commercial building and a house on a sloping street with trolley 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. Sullivan's Pharmacy, with its Tudor half-timbered gable and modern glass storefront has caught the eye of the Eastern photographer as he passes down Main Street in the factory town of Watertown, Connecticut. Partially visible next door is a handsome Colonial Revival residence with an early automobile in the driveway. The campus of The Taft School, a prep school founded by the President's brother a few decades before the picture was taken, is just up the hill to the left, surely a source of clientele for Sullivan's.