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Title	Employees in front of armory and office
Subject - LCSH	Employees; Portraits, Group; Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co.
Keywords	Albumen prints; Employees; Businessmen; Factories; Office buildings; Onion domes; Railroad tracks; Gatling guns; Firearms industry
Description	An 1876 photo of Colt's Firearms employees standing in front of the armory and office building. The blue starred dome can be seen in the distance and railroad tracks can be seen in the foreground.
Notes	The top left and bottom right corners are missing. Inscription on back:" East Armory + Main Office 1876 All Colt Employees Baxter Engine + Gatling Gun - foreground." Signed by: " C. J. Ehbets" [Someone has written numbers above the heads of five of the men on the balcony.] [Scanned in two pieces with HP Scanjet 8300, then photomerged with Photoshop CS2]
Date - Created	1876
Date - Digital	8/11/2009
Collection	Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company
Type	image
Format	jpg
Language	eng
Object Type	Albumen prints
Source - Original	1 albumen print : sepia ; 10 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.
Source - Location	Connecticut State Library, State Archives, PG 460, Colt Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, Box 2, Folder 4, Item 4
Relation	State Archives Finding Aids, PG 460, Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company Collection, http://www.cslib.org/archives/Finding_Aids/PG460.html
Publisher	Connecticut State Library
Rights	Digital image © Connecticut State Library. All rights reserved. Images may be used for personal research or non-profit educational uses without prior permission. For permission to publish or exhibit, see Reproduction and Publication of State Library Collections, http://www.cslib.org/repropub.htm
File name	pg460_002_004_004.jpg