From the 'Turnback Tuesday' archives: Main Street in Derby

This week's "Turnback Tuesday" photo shows Main Street in Derby during the early 1900s. It's taken across from Hubbell Brothers Shoe Store and just beyond the intersection leading to the Derby-Shelton Bridge and what is now Route 34 to Monroe.

There is an electric trolley in the middle of the street - which helps date the photo - plus some horses and carriages parked on the roadside. A sanitation worker sweeps up the "products of horse combustion."

[First posted on this date in 2015.]

Thanks goes to Derby Public Library staff for sharing interesting local history each week.