Main Street, Willimantic, CT

Main Street, Willimantic, CT: Black and white photographic print of Main Street, Willimantic, CT, looking west from the roof of the American Thread Company's Mill No. 6. ATCO's concrete warehouse is visible in the photo, which means that it was taken sometime after 1916, when the warehouse was constructed. The photo also shows a trolley on Main Street east of the NYNH&H railroad tracks; trolleys ran east of the railroad tracks between Willimantic and Norwich, CT, until 1936. Based on automobiles also in the photo, the photograph was probably taken in the 1930s.
Main Street, Willimantic, CT

Black and white photographic print of Main Street, Willimantic, CT, looking west from the roof of the American Thread Company's Mill No. 6. ATCO's concrete warehouse is visible in the photo, which means that it was taken sometime after 1916, when the warehouse was constructed. The photo also shows a trolley on Main Street east of the NYNH&H railroad tracks; trolleys ran east of the railroad tracks between Willimantic and Norwich, CT, until 1936. Based on automobiles also in the photo, the photograph was probably taken in the 1930s.

Name/Title

Main Street, Willimantic, CT

Entry/Object ID

2022.2.135

Description

Black and white photographic print of Main Street, Willimantic, CT, looking west from the roof of the American Thread Company's Mill No. 6. ATCO's concrete warehouse is visible in the photo, which means that it was taken sometime after 1916, when the warehouse was constructed. The photo also shows a trolley on Main Street east of the NYNH&H railroad tracks; trolleys ran east of the railroad tracks between Willimantic and Norwich, CT, until 1936. Based on automobiles also in the photo, the photograph was probably taken in the 1930s.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Black and white print

Subject

Main Street, Willimantic; concrete warehouse; American Thread Co.

Subject Place

Neighborhood

Willimantic, CT

City

Windham, CT

Continent

North America

Region

Northeast

Collection

American Thread Company Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Unknown

Date made

circa 1935

Time Period

20th Century

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Past Perfect

Other Number

Pho-A-0209

Location

Location

Cabinet

Photos: Photo Files

Room

Archives

* Untyped Location

Main Museum Building

Date

December 28, 2022

Web Links and URLs

Shore-Line Trolley Museum

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Found Object

Copyright

Copyright Holder

Public Domain

Copyright Date

circa 1935

Created By

historian@millmuseum.org

Create Date

December 28, 2022

Updated By

historian@millmuseum.org

Update Date

December 28, 2022