File name: 06_10_004054 Title: Entrance to Lake Compounce, Bristol, Conn. Created/Published: Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate) Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Genre: Postcards Subjects: Amusement parks Notes: Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department Rights: No known restrictions

MUSEUM QUALITY INKS AND PAPER: Printed on thick 192gsm heavyweight matte paper with archival giclee inks, this historic fine art will decorate your wall for years to come. VINTAGE MAP REPRODUCTION: Add style to any room's decor with this beautiful print. Whether your interior design is modern or classic, a map is never out of fashion. ATTENTION TO DETAIL: We edit every antique map for image quality, color and vibrance, so it can look its best while retaining historical character. Makes a great gift! FRAME READY: Your unframed poster will arrive crease-free, rolled in a sturdy mailing tube. Many maps fit easy-to-find standard size frames 16x20, 16x24, 18x24, 24x30, 24x36, saving on custom framing. Watermarks will not appear in the printed picture. Some blemishes, tears, or stamps may be removed from the final print.

1920 E. H. Elton Bristol, Conn., Embossed Quart Milk Bottle, Connecticut Milk Bottle , with embossing as follows ( E. H. Elton Bristol, Conn. , one quart liquid, T. Mfg. Co. ) , pop top finish , clear in color , measures 9 1/8 inches tall, Good Condition , shipping is 12.00 for this bottle, I also do combined shipping, so buy a bunch and I can pack in one box so you can save on shipping, if you have any questions feel free to contact me through the Etsy Conversations, THANK YOU for looking and shopping. As Always this is where you will get the best buys on antique bottles on Etsy,

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1 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.; No. 38 (1915-1916)

MUSEUM QUALITY INKS AND PAPER: Printed on thick 192gsm heavyweight matte paper with archival giclee inks, this historic fine art will decorate your wall for years to come. VINTAGE MAP REPRODUCTION: Add style to any room's decor with this beautiful print. Whether your interior design is modern or classic, a map is never out of fashion. ATTENTION TO DETAIL: We edit every antique map for image quality, color and vibrance, so it can look its best while retaining historical character. Makes a great gift! FRAME READY: Your unframed poster will arrive crease-free, rolled in a sturdy mailing tube. Many maps fit easy-to-find standard size frames 16x20, 16x24, 18x24, 24x30, 24x36, saving on custom framing. Watermarks will not appear in the printed picture. Some blemishes, tears, or stamps may be removed from the final print.

A private in the 16th Connecticut from Burlington, Conn., Gideon Barnes was wounded at Antietam. He died two months later. (Photo courtesy Lester Larrabee) Unlike many Civil War soldiers who died far from home, Gideon S. Barnes spent the final days of his life in his home state, where he suffered an agonizing death. A laborer from Burlington, Conn., Barnes had been married for a little more than six years to a woman named Lydia Ann Hall (they had no children) when he made a life-changing decision to enlist in the Union army on July 26, 1862. Nearly a month later, he was mustered into the 16th Connecticut Infantry's Company K, commanded by well-respected Captain Newton Manross of Bristol, Conn. Gideon Barnes was among the many 16th Connecticut Antietam casualties listed in the Hartford Courant on Sept. 23, 1862, six days after the battle. Events moved swiftly for Barnes and the 16th Connecticut. After organizing near Hartford, the regiment was sent to Washington in late August, where it was attached to the Ninth Corps of the Army of the Potomac. The 700-plus barely trained soldiers of the regiment found themselves on the front lines at the Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862. As the 16th Connecticut was routed late that Wednesday afternoon in farmer John Otto's 40-acre cornfield, Barnes took a bullet in the left thigh and was carried from the field. Timothy Robinson, a 2nd lieutenant in Company K, recalled that Barnes was shot "through the leg above the knee, which disabled him from service, and he went home on a furlough." (1) By Oct. 9, 1862, Barnes had arrived back in Connecticut, along with four other soldiers wounded at Antietam, to continue his recuperation in Burlington at the home of his father, Sherman, a War of 1812 veteran, who enjoyed making telescopes. Barnes' grandfather, Joel, served in the militia during the Revolutionary War. (Interestingly, Sherman suffered a broken thigh bone when the breech of his cannon exploded when it was fired during an 1838 Fourth of July celebration in the Whigville section of Burlington. (2) The wound never healed properly, according to a Barnes descendant.) Gideon Barnes' wife received an $8-a-month pension from the government after his death. Gideon Barnes never recovered from his wound, and exactly two months after Antietam, the 32-year-old soldier died. In an affidavit supporting Lydia Ann's widow's pension claim, the Bristol physician who treated Barnes noted a grisly combination of factors that caused his demise. "Wounds and injuries received in the battle of Antietam by rifle ball through the thick portion of the thigh causing explosive separation with sloughing," Dr. T.W. Camp noted. "This in connection with an uncontrollable camp diarrhea accompanied with delirium and typhoid fever were more than sufficient to cause death." (3) Twenty-four-year-old Lydia Ann applied for a widow’s pension shortly after Gideon’s death, eventually receiving $8 a month from Uncle Sam. On Oct. 1, 1865, she married a clockmaker from Bristol named Valentine Atkins, who died in 1895. Financially supported only by her son-in-law and meager income from a rental property, Lydia applied for the restoration of her Civil War widow’s pension in 1901, and at the time of her death on Feb. 26, 1918, she was receiving $25 a month. (4) Gideon Barnes is buried under a plain, gray state-issued marker in Bristol's Forestville Cemetery, 25 feet across the cemetery road from the gravestone of Manross, who was killed at Antietam when his arm was blown off by artillery fire, exposing his beating heart. (1) Widow's pension affidavit, Timothy Robinson, Aug. 14, 1863 (2) 1838 diary of Leavett Mills, Whigville, Conn. (3) Widow's pension affidavit, Dr. T.W. Camp, Oct. 3, 1863 (4) Lydia Barnes' widow's pension file Gideon S. Barnes' gravestone in Forestville Cemetery in Bristol, Conn. Gideon Barnes' name appears on the Burlington (Conn.) Civil War memorial, which honors the 88 town residents or natives who served during the war. A star next to a name denotes those who died in service in the Union army. (Visit ctmonuments.net for more on Connecticut war memorials.)

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v. : ill. ; 16 x 24 cm.; Biennial; Ceased with: no. 32 (1903-1904)

A Bristol (Conn.) firefighter watches a trailer carrying a back-hoe burn at the intersection of Route 229 and Broad Street on Friday, Nov. 4, 2005, after the driver cut a turn too sharply bringing down a telephone pole and transformer in Bristol, Conn. (AP Photo/The Bristol Press, Mike Orazzi) ** MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, SALES OUT **

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Aaron Hernandez’s family turned out Monday for a private funeral to say their farewells to the former NFL star, and a judge ordered that three suicide notes he left be turned over by the time…

An attorney for a prison friend of Aaron Hernandez raised fresh questions Wednesday about the life of the former NFL player, whose death in a Massachusetts prison has done nothing to bring closure …

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When Aaron Hernandez was a toddler in Bristol, Conn., his mother turned to the courts for bankruptcy protection. By the time he was 9, Hernandez’s parents had split and remarried, and his mother had again sought bankruptcy relief, with his father. And his mother a year later allegedly began working two phone lines in the family home taking bets for an illegal sports gambling operation.

A wonderful addition to your holiday table: beautiful silver plated serving spoon in the hard-to-find "Ilex" pattern by American Silver Co. Measures @ 6" in length and weighs slightly more than 1 ounce. Excellent condition - no metal loss, no scratches nor dents. The light gold-wash bowl adds a distinctive touch to an elegant Christmas table. THE AMERICAN SILVER CO., INC., manufacturer of silverware, Bristol, Conn., traces its history back to 1857, at which time the concern known as the Holmes & Tuttle Mfg. Co., Bristol, Conn., maker of silver plated flatware was taken over by the Bristol Brass Co., and from 1857 until 1900 it was operated as the silverware department of the Bristol Brass Co. The name "American Silver Co." was established in 1901 and bought by International Silver Co. in 1935.

A member of the color guard stands at attention during the Sept. 11 ceremony at Bristol's Memorial Boulevard School on Wednesday night, Sept. 11, 2002, in Bristol, Conn. Thousands attended the ceremony, organized by the United Way. (AP Photo/The Bristol Press, Mike Orazzi) www.instagram.com/mikeorazzi/

BRISTOL, Conn. — Friends, family and a few NFL football players gave their last respects to Aaron Hernandez at an invitation-only wake in his hardscrabble hometown.About 100 people descended …

Sentinel Wafer clock created by Henri Dreyfuss and manufactured by Ingraham. The plug-in electric clock is in good condition and has kept the time throughout testing. The time adjustment knob is easily accessible at the bottom. Reads SENTINEL WAFER, the hours 1 through 12 and printed along the bottom THE E. INGRAHAM CO., BRISTOL, CONN., U.S.A. Imprinted on the back: WAFER MODEL SK 174 60 CYCLE 100-125V 2-3W THE E.INGRAHAM CO. BRISTOL, CONN. USA About— Henry Dreyfuss is remembered for his telephone designs for AT&T. This clock is an iconic object in his career. It marks his maturing as a designer in terms of simple, approachable form. It is included in The Henry Ford collection.

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"A man of exceptional learning and scholarship," Newton Manross, a 37-year-old captain in the 16th Connecticut, was killed at Antietam. (Photo: Bristol Historical Society) Like this blog on Facebook | Follow me on Twitter Even decades after the Civil War, the memory of the gruesome death of Newton Manross -- a brilliant, bookish globetrotter from Bristol -- was seared into the brains of two Connecticut soldiers. A 37-year-old professor, Manross enlisted in the Union army on July 22, 1862, telling his wife Charlotte "you can better afford to have a country without a husband than a husband without a country." (1) On Aug. 24, he was commissioned captain of Company K of the 16th Connecticut, comprised of men from Hartford County towns such as Canton, Avon, Glastonbury, Granby and Bristol. Manross was among the many 16th Connecticut casualties at Antietam listed in the Hartford Daily Courant on Sept. 23, 1862. Less than a month later, Manross and the 16th Connecticut -- many of the men had never trained extensively with their weapons -- were thrown into the bloody chaos of the Battle of Antietam. As Manross led his company into action into a 40-acre cornfield that terrible Wednesday afternoon, he was blasted in the left shoulder by grapeshot. "I often think of that day, Sept. 17, 1862, and helping Captain Manross into the fence corner," Lester Taylor, a private in Company H of the 16th Connecticut, wrote 39 years after the battle. "I could look down inside of him and see his heart beat, his left shoulder all shot off. "When I first saw him, he was trying to get up," Taylor added, "so I went to him and helped him to his feet, being assisted by George Walbridge of H Company. ... we helped him a little way to the left and laid him down. The only thing I remember him saying was: 'I am bleeding inwardly.' " (2) Jasper Hamilton Bidwell, a private in the 16th Connecticut from Canton, recalled in 1909 a dazed and bleeding Manross resting on his right elbow, his head up. After he gave the captain water, Bidwell heard Manross moan, "My poor wife!" Although accounts from the period differ, Manross likely died shortly after receiving the terrible wound. (3) Among four captains in the 16th Connecticut killed or mortally wounded at Antietam, Manross was anything but your typical citizen-soldier. Survivors of Company K of the 16th Connecticut placed a memorial for Captain Newton Manross near his grave at Forestville Cemetery in Bristol, Conn. One of nine children of prominent Bristol clockmaker Elisha Manross and his wife Maria, Newton was inquisitive even as a teenager. Taking refuge from the rain during a fishing trip near his home, Manross discovered what he thought was a white stone on the floor of cavern. Upon closer inspection, the "stone" proved to be a skull of an Indian. Manross returned the next day, unearthed the entire skeleton of the Indian and took the skull to his father's shop, where it was used as a grotesque holder for small parts for clock movements. (4) Highly educated, Manross graduated from Yale in 1850 with a degree in geology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Gottingen in Germany in 1852 and spent time in Europe exploring mines. Especially interested in mining engineering, he traveled the world in the decade before the Civil War, analyzing rocks and minerals in such far-flung places as Trinidad, Panama and Mexico. Described as "a man of exceptional learning and scholarship," Manross received a patent in 1859 for a valve to retard and arrest the flow of gasses, and was so well regarded that his work frequently appeared in the prestigious American Journal of Science. (His obituary also appeared in the Journal in 1862.) In 1861, before he enlisted in the Union army, Manross was named of acting professor of chemistry and philosophy at Amherst (Mass.) College. But like his brothers, Eli and John, he couldn't ignore the call of his country. (Eli, a sergeant in 5th Connecticut, was wounded at Chancellorsville in 1863; John, a private in the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, was discharged from the army because of insanity and disease in 1865.) Newton Manross' occupation was listed as mechanic in the 1860 U.S. census. His family apparently employed three servants. (CLICK TO ENLARGE.) "He was a man of great promise in science and rare nobility of character," an 1873 history of Amherst College noted about Newton Manross. "A great favorite with officers and students, he stood up boldly for the Christian faith, and used all his influence for the highest good of the students and the prosperity of the Institution." Manross clearly left a lasting impression on Bristol, a manufacturing town 20 miles southwest of Hartford. Manross was killed near the 16th Connecticut monument at Antietam. The regiment suffered 43 killed, 161 wounded and 204 captured or missing in its first battle of the Civil War. Nearly thirty years after Antietam, the Bristol Herald published a long, glowing front-page article about its favorite son under a headline that read: "Soldier, Scholar and Gentleman in All Positions in Life." The article included an account of how Manross helped rescue his stranded party in the South American interior by making a boat from trees and floating upriver to the coast. (5) On May 9, 1902, a crowd that included many veterans of the 16th Connecticut and Manross' only child gathered for a maple tree-planting ceremony in the captain's honor in the Forestville section of Bristol, where he had lived and gone to grammar school. After schoolchildren sang "The Gladness of Nature" and the superintendent of schools gave a "brief but interesting" speech, an old soldier delivered an address in honor of his long-dead friend. (6) "From this little district school to the great institution of learning with which he was connected he kept in mind the resolve to benefit the world by his life and example," said 65-year-old William Relyea, a private in the 16th Connecticut. "...Captain Manross' mind grew stronger and his mind was a delight to all who knew him. "Such a man we honor here today by planting a tree in his memory," Relyea added. "He was a man beloved by all us soldiers in the Sixteenth. The day when he marched into camp at the head of his band of sturdy Bristol boys he put new life into the old Sixteenth, for they had realized they had not only a man of deep learning among them, but one who was patriotic and sincere to all." Newton and Charlotte Manross are buried side-by-side in Forestville Cemetery in Bristol, not far from the house where he grew up. Several paces away, a monument in his memory was placed by survivors of Manross' Company K. A contemporary marker replaced an older gravestone for Manross and his wife, Charlotte, who died in 1874. "You can better afford to have a country without a husband," he told his wife after he enlisted in 1862, "than a husband without a country." In this photo taken in 1887, Civil War veterans from the Manross G.A.R. post gather by the Newton Manross monument in Forestville Cemetery in Bristol, Conn. The monument was placed there by survivors of Company K of the 16th Connecticut. (Photo courtesy Bristol Historical Society via Tom LaPorte; CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE.) -- Have something to add (or correct) in this post? E-mail me here. SOURCES (1) History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers, B.F. Blakeslee, Hartford, The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1875, Page 20. (2) George Whitney Collection, Connecticut State Library. (3) George Whitney Collection, Connecticut State Library. (4) "Bristol, Connecticut, In The Olden Time New Cambridge, Which Includes Forestville," Hartford Printing Company, 1907, Pages 13-14. (5) Bristol Herald, Aug, 11, 1892, Page 1. (6) Hartford Courant, May 10, 1902, Page 15.

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