Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object |
Print, Photographic |
Date |
ca. 1870 |
Print size (inches) |
4" h x 6.25" w |
Location |
Vermont, Bennington, North Street |
Description |
Albumen sepia tone photograph of northeast corner of East Main and North Streets, downtown Bennington, Vermont. White wood buildings; dirt road. Building on left has sign "Banner Office" building in cetner has signs for "SM Sibley" grocery store, "Photographer Gallery" "C. Dart" and "G E Selby Boot & Shoe Store". Large skylights on top of building. Part of Stark House hotel on right edge of image. No people. Piece of machinery in right foreground. |
Information |
The buildings around Putnam Square have changed several times since Calvin Dart took this photograph around 1870. Dart’s studio/gallery was located on the top floor of the building on the right. Note the large skylight, which would have provided him with the ample natural light necessary for early photography. The framed photographs next to his door on Main Street advertised his services. The building also housed S. M. Sibley’s grocery store in the basement and George Selby’s boot and shoe store on the first floor. The offices of the local newspaper are in the building on the left. The State Banner was founded as a weekly newspaper in 1841 by a group of prominent citizens including Congressman Hiland Hall. The name changed several times over the course of the paper’s history, and it is now published as the Bennington Banner. |
Related People |
Dart, Calvin |
Subjects |
Bennington Banner |
Catalog Number |
2007.141 |