New Haven: From the Collection of Charles Rufus Harte (Images of America Series)

A FINE, bright, clean, tight, scholar/collector-worthy copy sans flaws. PROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED in black-and-white photography with accompanying descriptive captions. A literary and photographic chronicle of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. Photographs taken from the collection of Charles Rufus Harte. "These scenes from a lifetime of photography in the Elm City give us a vivid picture of New Haven from the Civil War to the 1950s, with a focus on the boom of the Roaring Twenties and the slide into the Depression of the 1930s, and on the development of transportation during this period of rapid change." 128 pages. GA32.