Main Street, Noank, Connecticut, circa 1878

collodion glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Scholfield, Everett Augustus
USA, CT, Noank
Circa 1878
glass
4 x 7 in.

Collodion glassplate negative, stereograph, by Everett A. Scholfield; foot of Main St., Noank, CT, Spicer store at left; signs read "PAINT SHOP", "GROCERIES", "PROVISIONS", banner at left reads "ICE CREAM"; small building is fish market; at right is Latham store; carved eagle on 2nd floor was supposedly done by James Campbell of Mystic; building at extreme right is branch store of T.N. Newbury & Co. (est. 1876 in Noank.); signs advertise "Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Workers", "Stoves and Ranges" and "House and Ship Plumbing"; old blacksmith's bellows in middle distance; circa 1878; see 1977.92.349.

1977.92.344