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Woman modeling a "frock Du-Bel" war time fashion with shorter length simpler cut, no ornamentation or embroidery

Farmington Ave in Hartford Conn. during WW1

Advertisement for sixteen different designs of sewing patterns of shirt waist design, by Boston pattern designer in 1906

Portrait of Mary McConnell Borah. Before World War I in the U.S. Women wore luxurious dresses with long layered skirts over corsets accentuating their waists.

Women seated at table, inspecting 45 automatic pistol parts, at Colt's Patent Fire Arms Plant, Hartford, Connecticut.

This is a building built to serve as the central piece to the site and help manage visitors.

It is an account on the food plan leading into the war and in the event of war. It was published in the Ridgefield Press.

There was a basketball game between the Ridgefield team and the Danbury team which was referred to as "Germans".

The first two pages of the item are also discussing Ridgefield and the War, but the image had been damaged and is partially illegible.

Theodora Talcott in Nurse's Uniform, Hartford, 1918