Album image 07, D.T. Bridges & Co.'s Boot Manufactory

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Title

Album image 07, D.T. Bridges & Co.'s Boot Manufactory

Subject

D.T. Bridges & Co. (Hopkinton, Mass.); Historic buildings-Massachusetts-Hopkinton; Shoe industry-Massachusetts-Hopkinton

Description

Four-story wooden shoe manufacturing building from the east side with the view behind to the west. Its first floor is constructed from brick, windows are arched. The roof has a two tier tower and a clock. A man sits in a horse drawn wagon in front of building, another man walks on a raised wood walkway. The building was destroyed by fire in April of 1883. It had been owned by Claflin, Coburn & Co. of Boston. Previous owner was Daniel Thurber Bridges. At the time it burned it employed about six hundred workers. It is within a photo album formerly owned by Samuel Crooks.

Source

page 11 From Photographic album, Hopkinton Illustrated, published by Lithotype Printing Company, Gardner Mass.

Publisher

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

Date

ca. 1880

Rights

Please request permission in advance to use image by contacting Rownak Hussain at Rownak@Hopkinton.org

Relation

From The Hopkinton Public Library Treasure Room

Format

image/jpg

Language

en-US

Type

image

Identifier

022, Closet Box 5, File # 7

Coverage

42.22861°N; 71.52306°W

Files

Citation

“Album image 07, D.T. Bridges & Co.'s Boot Manufactory,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed May 19, 2013, http://digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/410.

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