Hartford Studies Project
Turn-of-the-century street scenes

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Gold Street in winter, with an African-American Family, late nineteenth century. [CSL]
Holden Primus at the store in which he worked on Main and Gold Streets, c. 1870's. Mr. Primus' daughter, Rebecca Primus, established a school to teach freed slaves in Maryland after the Civil War. [CHS]
Mothers and children on Kilbourn Street, summer of 1911. [HPL]
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