Main Street, Hinsdale, N.H. 67.

Main Street, Hinsdale, N.H. 67.

View sighting up an unpaved street in a village center, with a focus on the 19th-century houses with storefronts and signs. A fancy open touring car moves up the street past a horse hitched to a buggy-- a common sight during the slow, early 20th-century transition from horse to gasoline power. 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 glass plates would be sent back to Belfast, Maine, and processed into postcards at the printing plant on High Street. Signs for Tobacco/ Confectionary/ Goceries/ Shoes/ Hosiery/ Dry Goods decorate the large display windows of a two-story frame building, probalby also a residence. Next door up the hill is a house with a Mansard roof and stacked front porches. A hanging sign reads "Bowser Gasoline". On the ground floor is J.W. Field Druggist, with signs advertising "Confectionery" and "Stationary".