Main St., Locke, N.Y. 7

Main St., Locke, N.Y. 7

A group of men stand on the porch outside a store fronting a small town Main Street with other simple 19th-century commercial buildings. The store is Stevens & Stryker, probably a grocery, which occupies one bay of a two- bay storefront. The other houses the Post Office. An early motor car is parked out front, near a gas pump at the corner. Beyond is a shop called "Potter"; a sign outside advertises ice cream. Next door is a stone building which may be the village's public library. The center of the street appears to have been recently graded with a macadam or other more solid surface. Sidewalks and utility poles and lines indicate the availability of electricity and telephone services. This image is part of a series made by one of the three Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company photographers assigned to 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.