Rail lines fill the foreground of this broad view of the Bridgeport works. Factory blocks, chimneys and a water tower show how the business occupied an industrial landscape connected to transport. Published in a 1917 local history, the photograph records a working complex long before later abandonment.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States: published 1917. Unaltered historical image; publication date is not an exact exposure date.
Source: George Curtis Waldo, History of Bridgeport and Vicinity, volume I (1917), plate facing p. 182; Internet Archive via Wikimedia Commons.
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Silent Grounds Collective, Remington & Union Metallic Cartridge, Bridgeport, SGC-CT043-043, CT043-P1917, “The Union Metallic Cartridge works in 1917.” Source: George Curtis Waldo, History of Bridgeport and Vicinity, volume I (1917), plate facing p. 182; Internet Archive via Wikimedia Commons.. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Works_of_the_Union_Metallic_Cartridge_Company,_Bridgeport.jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-24.