Remington & Union Metallic Cartridge, Bridgeport
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id: CT043-S01
title: Preservation Connecticut: Barnum Avenue plant
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Source reviewed September 2026
institution: Remington & Union Metallic Cartridge, Bridgeport
summary: Supporting source for the collection’s history, chronology and research notes. Historic factory views and later photographs trace a major Bridgeport manufacturing landscape.
url: https://connecticutmills.org/find/details/remington-arms-union-metallic-cartridge-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: CT043-P1917
title: The Union Metallic Cartridge works in 1917
kind: Photographs
date: Published 1917
institution: Remington & Union Metallic Cartridge, Bridgeport
summary: 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.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Works_of_the_Union_Metallic_Cartridge_Company,_Bridgeport.jpg
credit: George Curtis Waldo, History of Bridgeport and Vicinity, volume I (1917), plate facing p. 182; Internet Archive via Wikimedia Commons.
notes: Public domain in the United States: published 1917. Unaltered historical image; publication date is not an exact exposure date.
file: images/umc-works-1917.jpg
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license_url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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id: CT043-P01
title: Remington Arms Bridgeport, Ct. (5560513976)
kind: Photographs
date: 2011-03-24 15:35
institution: Remington & Union Metallic Cartridge, Bridgeport
summary: Remington Arms factory ruin, Bridgeport, March 2011.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Remington_Arms_Bridgeport,_Ct._(5560513976).jpg
credit: 826 PARANORMAL / CC BY 2.0
notes: Reuse permitted under CC BY 2.0; credit the creator, link the license, and identify changes. Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image.
file: images/remington-101103258.jpg
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license_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
external_image_url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Remington_Arms_Bridgeport%2C_Ct._%285560513976%29.jpg
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id: CT043-P02
title: Remington Works, Bridgeport LCCN2014699809
kind: Photographs
date: 1910s (Commons metadata labels 1910)
institution: Remington & Union Metallic Cartridge, Bridgeport
summary: Remington Works exterior, Bridgeport; Bain News Service photograph.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Remington_Works,_Bridgeport_LCCN2014699809.jpg
credit: Bain News Service, publisher / Public domain
notes: Public domain in the United States (source file license). Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image. Original repository record: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014699809/
file: images/remington-67338045.jpg
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id: CT043-P03
title: Remington Arms works, Bridgeport LCCN2014699515
kind: Photographs
date: 1910s (Commons metadata labels 1910)
institution: Remington & Union Metallic Cartridge, Bridgeport
summary: Remington Arms Works exterior, Bridgeport; Bain News Service photograph.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Remington_Arms_works,_Bridgeport_LCCN2014699515.jpg
credit: Bain News Service, publisher / Public domain
notes: Public domain in the United States (source file license). Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image. Original repository record: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014699515/
file: images/remington-67329874.jpg
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external_image_url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Remington_Arms_works%2C_Bridgeport_LCCN2014699515.jpg
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id: CT043-P04
title: Leaving Remington Works, (Bridgeport) LCCN2014699518
kind: Photographs
date: 1910s (Commons metadata labels 1910)
institution: Remington & Union Metallic Cartridge, Bridgeport
summary: Workers leaving Remington Works, Bridgeport; Bain News Service photograph.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leaving_Remington_Works,_(Bridgeport)_LCCN2014699518.jpg
credit: Bain News Service, publisher / Public domain
notes: Public domain in the United States (source file license). Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image. Original repository record: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014699518/
file: images/remington-67329896.jpg
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external_image_url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Leaving_Remington_Works%2C_%28Bridgeport%29_LCCN2014699518.jpg
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id: ED-P67329892
title: Crowd around Remington works, Brdgpt (i.e., Bridgeport) LCCN2014699517.jpg
kind: Photographs
date: Between circa 1910 and circa 1915
institution: Remington & Union Metallic Cartridge, Bridgeport
summary: Crowd in the street and tracks near Remington works. Title:  Crowd around Remington works, Brdgpt [i.e., Bridgeport]
 Abstract/medium:  1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crowd_around_Remington_works,_Brdgpt_(i.e.,_Bridgeport)_LCCN2014699517.jpg
credit: Bain News Service, publisher / Library of Congress
 
   Catalog:   https://lccn.loc.gov/2014699517  
  Image download:   https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/19500/19586v.jpg  
  Original url:   https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014699517/
notes: Image resized for the reading room. Source content retained. LOC range verified; single 1910 is flattened index metadata. No basis in image alone to call this a strike. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014699517/ Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain
file: images/ED-P67329892.webp
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external_image_url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Crowd_around_Remington_works%2C_Brdgpt_%28i.e.%2C_Bridgeport%29_LCCN2014699517.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled
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id: ED-P67329855
title: Remington workers, Bridgeport LCCN2014699513.jpg
kind: Photographs
date: Between circa 1910 and circa 1915
institution: Remington & Union Metallic Cartridge, Bridgeport
summary: Workers in a street beside the Remington plant. Title:  Remington workers, Bridgeport
 Abstract/medium:  1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Remington_workers,_Bridgeport_LCCN2014699513.jpg
credit: Bain News Service, publisher / Library of Congress
 
   Catalog:   https://lccn.loc.gov/2014699513  
  Image download:   https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/19500/19582v.jpg  
  Original url:   https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014699513/
notes: Image resized for the reading room. Source content retained. LOC range verified. No basis in image alone to call this a strike. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014699513/ Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain
file: images/ED-P67329855.webp
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external_image_url: https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Remington_workers%2C_Bridgeport_LCCN2014699513.jpg/1280px-Remington_workers%2C_Bridgeport_LCCN2014699513.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
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id: ED-P67329882
title: Remington works, Bdgept (i.e., Bridgeport) LCCN2014699516.jpg
kind: Photographs
date: 1910s; exact exposure date unverified
institution: Remington & Union Metallic Cartridge, Bridgeport
summary: Remington factory building and adjacent rail construction. Title:  Remington works, Bdgept [i.e., Bridgeport]
 Abstract/medium:  1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Remington_works,_Bdgept_(i.e.,_Bridgeport)_LCCN2014699516.jpg
credit: Bain News Service, publisher / Library of Congress
 
   Catalog:   https://lccn.loc.gov/2014699516  
  Image download:   https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/19500/19585v.jpg  
  Original url:   https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014699516/
notes: Image resized for the reading room. Source content retained. Selected single 1910 resembles the known index-date flattening on adjacent Bain records. LOC page failed to fetch in this pass; do not assert exact 1910. Visible negative number 3551-6. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain
file: images/ED-P67329882.webp
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external_image_url: https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Remington_works%2C_Bdgept_%28i.e.%2C_Bridgeport%29_LCCN2014699516.jpg/1280px-Remington_works%2C_Bdgept_%28i.e.%2C_Bridgeport%29_LCCN2014699516.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
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id: ED-P68161830
title: Women assembling cartridges, in Remington Arms Union Metallic Cartridges Co., Inc., Bridgeport, Conn. LCCN94506158.jpg
kind: Photographs
date: Between 1914 and 1918
institution: Remington & Union Metallic Cartridge, Bridgeport
summary: Women assembling cartridges at Remington-UMC. Title:  Women assembling cartridges, in Remington Arms Union Metallic Cartridges Co., Inc., Bridgeport, Conn.
 Abstract/medium:  1 photographic print.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_assembling_cartridges,_in_Remington_Arms_Union_Metallic_Cartridges_Co.,_Inc.,_Bridgeport,_Conn._LCCN94506158.jpg
credit: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress / Library of Congress
 
   Catalog:   https://lccn.loc.gov/94506158  
  Image download:   https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c10000/3c11000/3c11100/3c11141v.jpg  
  Original url:   https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/94506158/
notes: Image resized for the reading room. Source content retained. LOC Created/Published range verified. https://www.loc.gov/item/94506158/ Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain
file: images/ED-P68161830.webp
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