Ansonia’s Industrial Riverfront
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id: CT044-S01
title: Preservation Connecticut: American Brass, Liberty Street
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Source reviewed September 2026
institution: Ansonia’s Industrial Riverfront
summary: Supporting source for the collection’s history, chronology and research notes. Brass works, factories, rail access and the Naugatuck River explain the growth of industrial Ansonia.
url: https://connecticutmills.org/find/details/american-brass-co
credit: Preservation Connecticut
notes: External source; the full publication remains with its publisher. The archive provides an original educational summary and a link. See the collection history for the claims supported by this record.
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id: CT044-P01
title: Industrial buildings on North Main Street, Ansonia
kind: Photographs
date: Taken on 20 September 2008
institution: Ansonia’s Industrial Riverfront
summary: Factory building on North Main Street, Ansonia; company not verified.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ansonia_CT_factory.JPG
credit: Milfordwoman / CC BY-SA 3.0
notes: Reuse permitted under CC BY-SA 3.0; credit the creator, link the license, and identify changes. Adapted images must be shared under the same license. Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image. Only the street and city are established; do not assign this photograph to a specific factory company.
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license_url: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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id: CT044-P02
title: Farrel Foundry & Machine Company, Ansonia: 1917 postcard
kind: Photographs
date: by 1917
institution: Ansonia’s Industrial Riverfront
summary: Farrel Foundry and Machine Company, Ansonia, photographic postcard mailed by 1917.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PostcardAnsoniaCTFarelFoundry%26MachineCo1917.jpg
credit: Unknown photographer / Public domain
notes: Public domain in the United States (source file license). Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image.
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id: ED-IG-ANS-01
title: American Brass Company industrial buildings
kind: Photographs
date: 2014-10-27
institution: Ansonia’s Industrial Riverfront
summary: The surviving American Brass complex at 75 Liberty Street records the scale of Ansonia's industrial landscape.
url: https://connecticutmills.org/find/details/american-brass-co
credit: Lucas A. Karmazinas / Preservation Connecticut, Making Places
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download.  Reuse: link-only; no open license found; Making Places record supplies photographer/date; site copyright, no open license.
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id: ED-IG-ANS-02
title: Ansonia Brass and Copper Company, detail of View of Ansonia, Conn.
kind: Illustrations
date: 1875
institution: Ansonia’s Industrial Riverfront
summary: Building 12 in this 1875 bird's-eye map locates Ansonia Brass and Copper Company within the growing town.
url: https://connecticuthistory.org/the-american-brass-company-leading-the-way-in-the-brass-valley/
credit: O.H. Bailey & Co. / CTHumanities, ConnecticutHistory.org
notes:  Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: public-domain underlying 1875 drawing; digitization reuse not explicitly stated; Source identifies 1875 publication; public-domain underlying printed map. Use source attribution; original-map repository not established in retrieved caption.
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