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Car on Dirt Road

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Description: A view of a car on a dirt road driving toward Mt. Tom Camp, with a wooden guardrail on one side and a natural rock formation on the other side.
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Car on Dirt Road

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Description: A view of a car driving on a dirt road along the Naugatuck River, with a wooden guardrail and river on one side, and a rock formation on the other.
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Bike and Car Road Scene

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Description: View toward a boy with his bicycle at the entrance to Putnam Hill Park on the left. There are telephone poles and trees in the center, street railroad trac...
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Park Spring

Date: 1905
Description: Travelers stop by a spring in the woods for water with their early-model automobile. Two boys are standing at the spring, and a young girl stands above the...
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Putnam Park

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Description: A view of the main entrance to Putnam Park, including two wooden towers on either side of the road, various cannons and cannon balls. There is a swing set ...
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Pulpit Rock

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Description: A view of Pulpit Rock, where John Eliot preached to Native Americans. Text etched into the rock reads: "1686 Pulpit Rock -- Sacred Forevermore. 1886." Capt...
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Children on a Rocky Beach

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Description: View toward children playing on a beach among large rocks, with beach houses and trees in the background.
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Rowboat and Water Scene

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Description: View across water toward the shore. People are rowing a boat in the foreground, and people are standing on a rock near the shore. In the background are hou...
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Island and Boat Scene

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Description: Elevated view from Hubinger's Island featuring other islands, homes, and a boat.
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Governor John Winthrop, Jr., Statue

Date: 1905
Description: Published by the Albertype Company of Brooklyn, New York, the image features Bela Lyon Pratt's statue honoring Governor John Winthrop Jr., once Governor o...
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Nightingale Mills

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Description: View of Nightingale textile mill and stone dam across river Quinebaug. Caption reads: "The Nightingale Mills, Putnam, Conn."
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Willimantic River

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Description: Elevated view of the Willimantic River from a foot bridge with waterfront buildings in the distance. Caption reads: "View from Foot Bridge, Willimantic Con...
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Factory and Town

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Description: Elevated view of a factory building and surrounding town.
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Cold Stone Mill

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Description: Waterside view of mill buildings including diverted water stream.
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Rocky Shoreline

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Description: View along a rocky coastline toward resort hotels. People are sitting on the rocks, and a man is in a boat near the shoreline.
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The Nathan Hale Schoolhouse and the General Spencer Monument

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Description: View of the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse, with the General Spencer Monument in the foreground. Erected by the State on the petition of the Nathan Hale Memorial ...
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Street Side Terraces

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Description: View across road toward homes set above the street on an incline. Horses and carriages are parked on the other side of a street along a brick wall. Two spi...
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The Harbor

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Description: Elevated view of Norwich harbor. Oval-framed view features two ships in the river harbor as well as buildings on the waterfront and on the surrounding hill...
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The Falls

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Description: View toward two waterfalls flowing over rocks into a ravine. One waterfall is held back by a dam and the other is traversed by a railroad bridge. Trees and...
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Home of Justice Louis Busker

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Description: View toward the home of Justice Louis Busker. The second floor is obscured by trees, and a horse-drawn carriage and outbuildings are on the right.

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