Another Cove scene sketched by Whitman Bailey, of the "Stamford Exposition of Progress," held in June 1926 at Halloween – now Cummings – Park.
Artist's Sketch of Scene Outside Big Exposition Tent
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As we walk on Cove Island these days, we doubt any of us can imagine what it looked like in the past. The Old Cove Mills were destroyed in a tremendous fire on February 19, 1919, and except for one small building, nothing is left today. However, it looked quite different still in 1931 as this sketch by Whitman Bailey shows, printed in The Advocate on May 16, 1931.
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The data of the inventoried collection of the Whitman Bailey Sketches are now online.
Beginning in 1924 and continuing for the next thirty years, Whitman Bailey's sketches appeared in the Stamford Advocate almost weekly. Black and white drawings of local scenes, the sketches were accompanied by brief vignettes of the scene. Mostly factual, at times the stories presented were local folklore faithfully transmitted for the interest of the reader. Thanks to Dorothy Mix and other volunteers, our collection of the newspaper clippings has been organized and scanned and may be viewed in the Marcus Research Library.
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Another installment in our series of Sketches by Whitman Bailey.
Busy Scene at Main and Bank Streets, March 7, 1925
Stamford's “financial district,” March 1925, a hub at Main, Bank, and Atlantic streets. In the newspaper clipping it is called “a sort of Cape Horn around which all traffic must navigate before it can lay a course to its destination.”
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Another installment in our series of Sketches by Whitman Bailey.
Section of Stamford's South End in Winter
New Year's Morning 1938
"Quintard House a the foot of old Water Street"
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We add the usual warning: "At times, the accompanying vignettes are mostly folklore passed on to Mr. Bailey by residents of the areas where he was sketching. In those instances he had no way of determining the truth of the story. Nor have we. It is presented as a sidelight to the sketch. Therefore, researchers are cautioned to regard these tales as local color, interesting, thought provoking, but sometimes not entirely factual."
A while ago, we introduced Sketches by Whitman Bailey. Here is an appropriate one for the season:
Christmas Eve at Old Samuel Webb House a Century Ago (1934).
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We add the usual warning: "At times, the accompanying vignettes are mostly folklore passed on to Mr. Bailey by residents of the areas where he was sketching. In those instances he had no way of determining the truth of the story. Nor have we. It is presented as a sidelight to the sketch. Therefore, researchers are cautioned to regard these tales as local color, interesting, thought provoking, but sometimes not entirely factual."
Thanks to the work of our library volunteers, the sketches by Whitman Bailey have been collated and scanned and are available for viewing at the computer in the Marcus Research Library. They are in a searchable database, sorted by town and street. ¹
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