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| Title main | 1327 State Street at Ferry Street, State Street redevelopment area, New Haven. |
| Subject lcsh topical | Urban renewal
Streets
Signs and signboards
Stores, Retail
Commercial buildings
Automobiles
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| Subject tiger geographic | 1327 State Street (New Haven, Conn.)
Ferry Street (New Haven, Conn.)
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| Category | Infrastructure
Livelihood
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| Description | View of 1327 State Street at Ferry Street, State Street project area, New Haven. Signs for businesses can be seen on both sides of the street. A sign advertising Admiral television projects over a storefront next to a barber shop partially visible at far right. Cars can be seen on the street.
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| Description notes | Title supplied by cataloger.
Dated May 20, 1959.
One of a collection of photographs taken by the New Haven Redevelopment Agency to document a massive urban planning and development project undertaken from 1956 through the mid-1970s. The federally-financed redevelopment initiative was realized through a series of projects focused on particular New Haven city neighborhoods identified by street or area names. These projects involved the demolition of old structures and construction of new buildings, roadways and other facilities.
The State Street project targeted the commercial thoroughfare extending from Water Street to the Hamden town line. The downtown section was a shopping district with a variety of stores; the east side of the street backing on the railroad cut. Redevelopment involved removing a number of older structures to widen State Street, as well as reconfigured roadways and new buildings.
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| Date created | 1959. |
| Format extent | 1 photograph ; 8 x 9 7/8 in.
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| Format medium | image/jpeg |
| Identifier | File name: nhchs_pha_nhrapc_f382_ph15.jpg
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| Source | New Haven Museum and Historical Society |
| Relation isPartOf | The New Haven Redevelopment Agency Photograph Collection.
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| Rights | Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The New Haven Museum and Historical Society. |
| SeqNum | 1012 |
| ObjCol | Photographs |
University of Connecticut | 
