Bookstore and press/printing (Mystic Press) building, West Main and Pearl Streets, Mystic

Image
Metadata
Handle
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:4067
Persons
Persons
Creator (cre): Scholfield, E. A. (Everett Augustus), 1843-1930
Title
Title
Title
Bookstore and press/printing (Mystic Press) building, West Main and Pearl Streets, Mystic
Supplied
yes
Origin Information
Origin Information
Date Created
1880 (year approximate)
Parent Item
Parent Item
Mystic Seaport Museum
Connecticut History Illustrated
Resource Type
Resource Type
Still image
Digital Origin
Digital Origin
reformatted digital
Description
Description
View of a two-story building with pitched roof on the northeast corner of West Main and Pearl Streets, Mystic. Sign over the doorway reads: "BOOK/STORE/ PRESS/ PRINTING/ OFFICE". A stairway on the Pearl Street side leads up to the second floor. A horse and carriage are visible to the right of the storefront on West Main Street. Water behind a stone wall and crude wood fence can be seen in the foreground.
Genre
Genre
photographs
Subject
Subject
Newspapers
Newspaper publishing
Bookstores
Printing
Stores, Retail
Signs and signboards
Commercial buildings
Storefronts
Carriages and carts
Horse-drawn vehicles
Horses
Mystic Press
Geographic Subject
Geographic Subject
West Main Street (Mystic, Conn.)
Pearl Street (Mystic, Conn.)
Extent
Extent
Source extent: 1 photograph : collodian stereo glass negative ; 4 x 7 in.
Held By
Held By
Mystic Seaport Museum
Use and Reproduction
Use and Reproduction
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image are available from Mystic Seaport.
Note
Note
Note Type
source note
Note
Scholfield Collection
Note Type
local
Note
theme: Infrastructure
Note Type
local
Note
theme: Livelihood
Note
Title supplied by cataloger. The building depicted was occupied at this time by the Mystic Press, which succeeded two earlier newspapers, the Mystic Pioneer (1853) and the Mystic Journal (1870). Lucius M. Guernsey established the Mystic Press in February 1873. The business occupied the building at the corner of West Main and Pearl Streets until 1881, when it moved to Ryan's building, otherwise known as the Riverside Block, at the east end of West Main Street next to the highway bridge. Taken by Everett A. Scholfield, a professional photographer who worked primarily in Mystic and New London from 1865-1913.
Local Identifier
Local Identifier
Accession number: 1977.92.361
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