Tolland County · 1890
Storrs: classrooms, farm fields and early college life
Twenty photographs from 1890–1909 follow the agricultural college through lessons, farm work, student gatherings and a growing campus.
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View east, general view of bridge within setting · June 1994COLLECTION 151Railways, roads & rivers
Mansfield: a farm-road bridge at the turn of the century
Mansfield
A complete photographic survey of Mount Hope Road Bridge reveals how a small rural crossing connects local travel with Connecticut’s bridge-building industry.
1900–1994
View southeast, general view of bridge within setting · June 1994COLLECTION 152Farms & rural life
Coventry: farm buildings and a crossing into Mansfield
Coventry · Mansfield
A South Street farmstead and Perkins Corner Bridge show the buildings and local routes that shaped an agricultural landscape.
1914–1994
Graduating Class · 1890COLLECTION 153Schools & community
Storrs: classrooms, farm fields and early college life
Mansfield
Twenty photographs from 1890–1909 follow the agricultural college through lessons, farm work, student gatherings and a growing campus.
1881–1939
Group of shed workers at Wetstone farm, 14 of them were 12 to 14 yrs. old. Location: Vernon, Connecticut · August 2, 1917COLLECTION 154Industry & working life
Vernon and Rockville: working lives beyond the mill walls
Vernon
Lewis Hine’s farm workers and Sheldon Dick’s Schneider farm photographs add people, homes and agricultural labor to the history of an industrial community.
1808–1965
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