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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | International model "F" or "31" truck operated by Schwartz Furniture Co. of New London, Connecticut. The truck is photographed on the street outside of the... |
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| Description: | A view of the cellar door belonging to Gov. Wm. Leete, where the sympathetic Puritans concealed the regicide judges Whalley and Goffe in 1661. Caption read... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A bronze statue at Yale College honoring Nathan Hale. The ivy covered brick wall of Connecticut Hall fills the background of the photo. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| 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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| Description: | A view of five children eating ice cream and a man standing in a park with a number of monuments including a cannon, a flagpole with a stone base and a sta... |
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| Description: | A "Yankee Farmer" with two oxen and a cart near dilapidated farm buildings. Caption reads: "Yankee Farmer, Willimantic, Conn." |
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| Description: | View of Willimantic cotton mills across railroad tracks with three men standing in front. Caption reads: "Willimantic Cotton Mills Corporation, Willimantic... |
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| Description: | Street side view of Holland Manufacturing Company's West Mill, silk producers. Caption reads: "Holland M'F'G. Co. - West Mill, Willimantic, Conn." |
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| Description: | View from across a lawn of Smith and Winchester Manufacturing Company buildings, producers of paper making machinery and laundry equipment. Caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A view of the entrance and front facade of St. Joseph's Hospital. A man stands on the sidewalk near the entrance. A fence surrounds the building, and a man... |
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| Description: | The Simsbury 1820 House was originally owned by Revolutionary War hero Noah Phelps who gave it to his son Elijah, and the house remained in the family unti... |
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| Description: | View toward the Noah Webster House, the home of American lexicographer Noah Webster, the author of the first American dictionary (1828), probably built cir... |
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| Description: | A view of a road and the Dickerman Store with trees and vegetation lining the road. Caption reads: "The Dickerman Store, New Canaan, Conn." |
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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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| 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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| Description: | A street view of cottages, with a boardwalk and a fence in the foreground. Houses line both sides of the unpaved road. |
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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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| Description: | View of pathway through an elaborate garden on the Walhall Estate. Features large ceramic vases, a trellis and a metal fence as well as a stone pathway and... |
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