Hartford Department Stores: Newberry, Kresge, Steiger's and more

Описание: This video is about the early department stores and five and dime stores that existed on Main Street in Hartford between Asylum and Pratt Streets, an area that is today a parking lot. The stores included the Hartford branches of J. J. Newberry Co. and S. S. Kresge Co., as well as Albert Steiger Company.
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I made a previous video about the corner of Main and Asylum Streets:    • Site of the First Skyscraper in Hartford, ...  

This video includes a photograph of the Hills Block from the collections of the Connecticut Historical Society: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:19888

This video includes a photograph of Steiger-Vedder Company from the collections of the Connecticut Historical Society: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:9918

This video includes a photograph of by Richard Welling from the collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Accession Number 2012.284.111

This video features two images of the display windows of C. S. Hills & Co. during World War I from the Dudley Photograph Collection of Hartford During World War I (PG 034) at the Connecticut State Library:
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/30002:2512
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/30002:2499

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