From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Main St., Wallace, N.Y. 30.
Scene of a Main Street with commercial buildings and storefronts on a summer day. 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. Early motorcars drive by a row of typical, late 19th century storefronts. Interestingly, one of these businesses, in the middle of the blockfront, has gasoline pumps out on the curb in front. As usual, Socony is the brand, the Standard Oil Company's early name. Sick & Drum Hardware occupies the storefront at the far right. A diamond-shape railroad crossing warning sign is visible farther down the street. Across the street at the left is a sign advertising H.M. Dygert Lunches, Ice Cream, Candy and Tobacco, appealing to locals and summer tourists visiting the nearby Finger Lakes.
