Gasless Sunday in Market Square

Gasless Sunday in Market Square

World War, 1914-1918 -- Economic aspects -- United States; Market Square (Chicopee, Mass.); City Hall (Chicopee, Mass.); A.G. Spalding & Bros.; Chicopee (Mass.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.

Pedestrians on left street corner gaze on a nearly empty





square during World War I. City Hall is on the right and A.G. Spalding





is in the background. During World War I the federal government





proclaimed gasless Sundays in order to conserve gasoline.

Gilbert, Russ H.

C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/

ca. 1918

Is part of the Russ H. Gilbert photographic collection, 1917-1922. Chicopee History Room, Chicopee Public Library, Chicopee, Mass. http://www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org/

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