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Postcard 1910 Hartford CT Main Street City Hall Poly-Chrome Trolley Street
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Pre-linen · 1910

Postcard 1910 Hartford CT Main Street City Hall Poly-Chrome Trolley Street

Hartford, Connecticut, USA1910Pre-linenGood

A yellow electric streetcar glides down Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut, past horse-drawn wagons, bicyclists, and a bustling sidewalk crowd — a vivid freeze-frame of Gilded Age urban life captured in luminous Poly-Chrome lithography and mailed on April 10, 1910 from Hartford to a Mrs. M. Van Sothen at 725 Home Street, New York City. The image, looking south from City Hall, reveals Hartford's commercial grandeur: ornate stone facades, a towering clock post at curbside right, and a distant church spire piercing the horizon. The Poly-Chrome process — printed in Leipzig and Dresden by the Chapin News Company of Hartford (Incorporated) — produces jewel-like color typical of the German-printed "golden age" postcard era. The sender, Danny, inscribed simply "Best Regards" on the face. A 1-cent green Franklin stamp (Scott #300 series) is cleanly machine-cancelled with the Hartford, CT APR 10 12-PM 1910 slogan cancel.

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PC-03028 · The Chapin News Company (Inc.), Hartford, Conn. / Poly-Chrome, Leipzig-Dresden
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