Hartford Department Stores: Newberry, Kresge, Steiger's and more

This video is about the early department stores and five and dime stores that existed on Main Street in Hartford between Asylum and Pratt Streets, an area that is today a parking lot. The stores included the Hartford branches of J. J. Newberry Co. and S. S. Kresge Co., as well as Albert Steiger Company.
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I made a previous video about the corner of Main and Asylum Streets:    • Site of the First Skyscraper in Hartf...  

This video includes a photograph of the Hills Block from the collections of the Connecticut Historical Society: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:19888

This video includes a photograph of Steiger-Vedder Company from the collections of the Connecticut Historical Society: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:9918

This video includes a photograph of by Richard Welling from the collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Accession Number 2012.284.111

This video features two images of the display windows of C. S. Hills & Co. during World War I from the Dudley Photograph Collection of Hartford During World War I (PG 034) at the Connecticut State Library:
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/30002:2512
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/30002:2499

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