All posts tagged "photography"
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3.2KBusiness and LaborThe Working Girls of Boston: Immoral Floozies or Honest Toilers?
During the Gilded Age, the working girls of Boston had to contend not just with low pay but with reputations as immoral...
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5.5K2Arts and LeisureClover Adams Takes Pictures of Grief (Her Own)
The famous statue “Grief” memorializes Clover Adams, a talented photographer whose husband wouldn’t let her work be published. She committed suicide in...
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7.3KConnecticutAfrican American Medical Students at Yale
It’s an interesting photograph: serious-looking men in hats and suits, with a couple of human skulls among them. Taken in 1895, the...
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38.3KBusiness and LaborThe Working Man’s Friend Who Busted the Hartford Newsies Strike
The New York-based strike, immortalized in the Disney film Newsies, succeeded in 1899. The Hartford newsies strike 10 years later did not...
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12.7K2ConnecticutThe Tariffville Disaster Inspires the First Emergency Phone Call
The Tariffville disaster, a train wreck near Hartford, prompted the first-ever emergency telephone call when a doctor summoned help from a local...
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31.4K1ConnecticutRevolutionary War Veterans Reminisce (And Get Their Pictures Taken)
During the Civil War, a Connecticut minister named E. B. Hillard went on a quest to collect the reminiscences of the Revolutionary...
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