Photograph, Gertrude Crane

Title: Photograph, Gertrude Crane
Description: Photograph of Miss Gertrude Crane, stenographer, at Willimantic Linen Company or American Thread Company office in Willimantic, CT, c. 1892-1904. Albumen print pasted onto cardboard. Unknown photographer. Crane appears in the 1892 and 1893 Willimantic Directories as an employee of the Willimantic Linen Company and a boarder at 230 Church Street in Willimantic, in the 1895 and 1896 Directories as an employee of the WLC and a boarder at 209 North Street in Willimantic, in the 1897 and 1898 Directories as an employee of the WLC and a resident of Mansfield, CT, and in the 1899-1904 Directories as an employee of ATC and a resident of Mansfield. WLC became ATC in 1898. At least one of the cards on her desk is a trade card. There is a clock on one wall, and perhaps a telephone receiver on another.
Identifier: WTHM.2022.2.9
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1892 - 1904
Date Created: 1892 - 1904
Type: Photograph
Format: Albumen Print
Subject: Gertrude Crane; American Thread Company
Coverage: Northeast : North America : Windham, CT : Willimantic, CT
Rights: This work is in the public domain.
Relation: American Thread Company Collection
Provenance: Name/Reference Label: Found Object