The building with a crowd gathering around it is Hubbell’s Shoe Store, located in the A.H. & C.B. Alling Building on Main and Elizabeth Streets in Derby.
The crowd of about 600 people assembled to see a woman be hypnotized in the store window. Interestingly enough, the same hypnotist also performed up the street at the Sterling Opera House.
The photo is derived from an old glass negative taken by photographer Myles P. Fillingham of Ansonia, circa early 1900s.
[This was first posted on this date in 2016.]
Thanks goes to the Derby Public Library staff for sharing interesting local history each week.
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