Bridgeport, Connecticut as seen from Old Mill

Bridgeport, Connecticut as seen from Old Mill Hill, c. 1857, hand-colored lithograph by Walter Staengel. In the second half of the 19th century, Bridgeport industrialized. The US Civil War spurred the development of iron foundries, firearms and ammunition manufacturing, and horse harnesses. Its factories made sewing machines, for the domestic and international markets. At lower right, obsolete water-powered mill, contrasts with the fossil-fueled factories expelling dark smoke

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