WINDSOR POSTCARD COLLECTION
Windsor Historical Society’s digital collection of postcards includes three subject collections:
- historic buildings
- tobacco farming
- postcards written to men fighting in World War I.
Each subject collection features thumbnail photographs of the postcards and brief descriptions which are linked to the full-sized photograph of the postcard, its title, its creators, its object number, its full description, its approximate dates, and subjects. The World War I collection feature the versos of the postcards.
Title: Broad Street, North from Central Row, Windsor, CT
Date: c.1910-1918
Title: Founders Hall, Loomis Institute, Windsor, CT
Date: c.1915-1925
Title: Hartford City Guard Clubhouse, Windsor, CT
Date: c.1910-1920
Title: Lieut. Walter Fyler Homestead, 1640, Windsor, CT
Date: c.1925-1935
Title: Methodist Church and Parsonage, Windsor, CT
Date: c.1910-1920
Title: Oliver Ellsworth Homestead, Windsor, CT
Date: c.1905-1915
Title: Plant of the General Electric Company, Windsor, CT
Date: c.1920-1929
Title: Connecticut River Valley Tobacco Farm
Date: c.1960-1970
Title: Harvesting and Curing Shade Grown Tobacco
Date: c.1960-1970
Title: Irrigation System for Shade Grown Tobacco
Date: c.1950-1965
Title: Operators Sew Pairs of Tobacco Leaves
Date: c.1950-1960
Title: Picking Tobacco in the Connecticut River Valley
Date: c.1950-1965
Title: Ripe Shade Tobacco Leaves are Placed in Canvas Baskets
Date: c.1950-1965
Title: Sewing Machine for Green Tobacco Leaves
Date: c.1950-1960
Title: Shade Grown Tobacco Seedlings are Planted in the Field
Date: c.1950-1960
Title: Aerial View of Shade Grown Tobacco Fields in the Tobacco Valley
Date: c.1960-1970
Title: Workers Hang Shade Cloth in Tobacco Fields
Date: c.1950-1965
Title: Workers Sew Pairs of Tobacco Leaves to Laths
Date: c.1960-1970
Title: Workers Transfer Tobacco Seedlings from Hot Beds to Planters
Date: c.1950-1965
Title: Young Tobacco Plants are Supported Individually
Date: c.1950-1960