A streetcar stands among Winchester employees at Munson Street and Winchester Avenue during the noon break, April 6, 1918.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States: official federal government work, Commons PD-USGov and Public Domain Mark. NARA NAID 55176778; local identifier 111-SC-8088. Commons version is already cropped and converted to grayscale; downloaded source bytes are preserved. Digitization date 2016 is not the camera date. Do not infer the car’s exact destination from this view. Resized and WebP compressed only; no historical content added, retouched or removed.
Source: Lt. Lentz, SIG.R.C.; War Department, Army War College, Historical Section, World War I Branch; National Archives, Record Group 111
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A streetcar stands among Winchester employees at Munson Street and Winchester Avenue during the noon break, April 6, 1918. This wartime industrial scene shows street railways amid the everyday movements of factory workers. The identified intersection grounds the image in New Haven.
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Silent Grounds Collective, New Haven & West Haven Trolleys, SGC-TR-019, TR-006, “Noon hour at Winchester, April 6, 1918.” Source: Lt. Lentz, SIG.R.C.; War Department, Army War College, Historical Section, World War I Branch; National Archives, Record Group 111. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Haven_Munson_St_Winchester_Ave_intersection_Winchester_Plant_NARA-55176778.jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.