View at Stonington Me. 28.

View at Stonington Me. 28.

"View at Stonington Me. 28." Image eastward overlooking Main Street probably from a second floor window, during its "boom town" years as a granite quarrying center around the time Stonington incorporated as a town in 1897. The buildings on the right front the harbor. Except for the open, unpaved street, the view captures the densely built town of frame shops and houses with clapboard siding and wood shingle roofs. Gables, cupolas, chimneys and a bell tower create a picturesque sihouette against the sky. Pedestrians and vehicles, probably posed by the Eastern photographer, animate the scene. On the left, two children stand on a granite ledge outside a building with the sign: Patton's Sun-Proof Paints". Next door, according to the signs, is Noye's Pharmacal Company, and a furniture store. There is advertising for "Polarine Motor Oil" and Magee Ranges and Heaters - F. S. Small". Two women in long coats walk by Small's Pharmacy on the wooden sidewalk. On the opposite side of the street are two men having a conversation, an early automobile, and a white horse hitched to a light carriage -- now reference points to a society in transition from horse-drawn to gasoline engine transportation. A storefront sign identifies the business of "Fred E. Webb - Boots, Shoes and Rubber...Bicycles and Repairing". Chunks and slabs of granite here and there reflect the primary industry of the village - granite quarrying.