View from the street of Lathrop Engine Company buildings, Holmes Street, Mystic

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:3429

Title

View from the street of Lathrop Engine Company buildings, Holmes Street, Mystic

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1926 to 1935

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

View from the street of a one-story wood industrial building identified as a Lathrop Engine Company building, Holmes Street, Mystic. A chimney and what appears to be a brick building are partially visible behind the building to the right. Utility poles and lines can be seen along the roadside next to the building.

Genre

Subject

Lathrop Engine Company

Geographic Subject

Holmes Street (Mystic, Conn.)

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : 7 15/16 x 10 in.

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Note

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Livelihood

Note	Title supplied by cataloger. James W. Lathrop founded J.W. Lathrop & Company in 1897. From 1898 until its sale as Lathrop Engine Company in 1954, it manufactured marine engines for power yachts and fishing boats, occupying several buildings in the Holmes Street area of Mystic. Two holes in photograph at left for ring binder.

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1975.199

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View from the street of Lathrop Engine Company buildings, Holmes Street, Mystic

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