SGC-CT040-040 · Research edition September 12, 2026
A selected, source-based research collection for New Haven and Fairfield counties. Includes credited photographs where reusable images were located, historical interpretation and links to supporting records. It is a growing inventory, not an exhaustive survey. Photographs retain their individual dates and reuse terms; images do not establish present access conditions.
The story in pictures
Tract K shooting range: northeast exterior
Undated; historic engineering survey photograph
Winchester Tract K shooting range, looking southwest.
VIEW, LOOKING EAST, SHOWING OPEN SPACE AT RANGE BUILDING AT NORTH END, Interior - Winchester Repeating Arms Company, Tract K Shooting Range, 125 Munson Street (rear section), HAER CONN,5-NEWHA,39-3.tif
Undated survey photograph
Open interior at the north end of Winchester's Tract K range.
Women making Browning machine guns - general view of polishing shop, Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn. LCCN94506155.jpg
Between 1914 and 1918
Women in Winchester's polishing shop. Title: Women making Browning machine guns - general view of polishing shop, Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn.
Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print.
Winchester’s New Haven complex grew across several city blocks. Preservation Connecticut dates the first buildings at this site to 1870 and records a major expansion in 1914–1916. The surviving industrial fabric includes both nineteenth-century brick construction and the reinforced-concrete buildings of the wartime expansion. [CT040-S01][CT040-S02]
The factory was part of a larger neighborhood. The National Register district includes hundreds of residential buildings as well as industrial structures. Reading the works together with nearby housing helps explain how a large employer shaped the daily geography of a city. [CT040-S01][CT040-S02]
The contrast between the first works of 1870 and the building campaign of 1914–1916 makes Winchester a story about scale. A factory that expanded across blocks also changed the distances people traveled between home, a gate and a particular workshop. The district's houses belong in this history alongside its industrial buildings. They make it possible to study an employer as part of a neighborhood, while leaving open who occupied any particular house and where each resident worked. [CT040-S01][CT040-S02]
Different records preserve different parts of this working city. An exterior survey locates buildings and construction materials; a photograph of production places people and equipment within those spaces. Neither provides a complete account of pay, training or working conditions. Read the architecture together with the dated labor photographs, then look for payrolls, city directories and workers' testimony to connect a visible room or street to an individual life. [CT040-S01][CT040-S02]
Key dates
1870 — First buildings at the New Haven site CT040-S01
VIEW, LOOKING EAST, SHOWING OPEN SPACE AT RANGE BUILDING AT NORTH END, Interior - Winchester Repeating Arms Company, Tract K Shooting Range, 125 Munson Street (rear section), HAER CONN,5-NEWHA,39-3.tif
Open interior at the north end of Winchester's Tract K range.
Women making Browning machine guns - general view of polishing shop, Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn. LCCN94506155.jpg
Women in Winchester's polishing shop. Title: Women making Browning machine guns - general view of polishing shop, Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn.
Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print.
Includes source text where acquired. Source websites require an internet connection. OCR may contain errors; verify names and dates against the scan.
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CT040-S01 · Sources & research leads · Source reviewed September 2026
Preservation Connecticut: Winchester works
Supporting source for the collection’s history, chronology and research notes. Factories, testing facilities and surrounding streets reveal the scale of Winchester’s New Haven operations.
External source; the full publication remains with its publisher. The archive provides an original educational summary and a link. See the collection history for the claims supported by this record.
CT040-S02 · Sources & research leads · Source reviewed September 2026
Winchester factory neighborhood historic district
Supporting source for the collection’s history, chronology and research notes. Factories, testing facilities and surrounding streets reveal the scale of Winchester’s New Haven operations.
External source; the full publication remains with its publisher. The archive provides an original educational summary and a link. See the collection history for the claims supported by this record.
Winchester Tract K shooting range, looking southwest.
Public domain U.S. National Park Service photograph (PD-USGov-NPS). LOC: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government. Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image. Original repository record: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ct0399.photos.024174p
Credit: Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service; photographer not identified in source metadata / Public domain. Cite SGC SGC-CT040-040, CT040-P01, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-12.
Public domain U.S. National Park Service photograph (PD-USGov-NPS). LOC: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government. Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image. Original repository record: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ct0399.photos.024173p
Credit: Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service; photographer not identified in source metadata / Public domain. Cite SGC SGC-CT040-040, CT040-P02, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-12.
Interior of Winchester shooting range 3, target end.
Public domain U.S. National Park Service photograph (PD-USGov-NPS). LOC: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government. Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image. Original repository record: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ct0399.photos.024180p
Credit: Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service; photographer not identified in source metadata / Public domain. Cite SGC SGC-CT040-040, CT040-P03, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-12.
CT040-P04 · Photographs · 6 April 1918
Winchester plant at Munson Street and Winchester Avenue
Crowd at Munson Street and Winchester Avenue, Winchester plant, 6 April 1918.
Public domain in the United States (source file license). Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image.
Image resized for the reading room. Source content retained. The mount labels the activity Making rifle stocks. Receipt date is not exposure date. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain
Credit: War Department. 1789-9/18/1947 / This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by National Archives and Records Administration as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the Digital Public Library of America , via its partner Digital Public Library of America .
Record in source catalog
DPLA identifier: 88cef28f59e00160beeabbe758b7c9ab
National Archives Identifier: 45521383. Cite SGC SGC-CT040-040, ED-P96771874, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-12.
ED-P96668750 · Photographs · 1917–1918 per catalog
Image resized for the reading room. Source content retained. Mount identifies rifles manufactured for government use and Trimming. March 24, 1919 is explicitly REC'D, not TAKEN. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain
Credit: War Department. 1789-9/18/1947 / This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by National Archives and Records Administration as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the Digital Public Library of America , via its partner Digital Public Library of America .
Record in source catalog
DPLA identifier: d9e9bbc493dddda5c4daeff5f57a4b75
National Archives Identifier: 45521495. Cite SGC SGC-CT040-040, ED-P96668750, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-12.
ED-P97019116 · Photographs · 1917–1918 per catalog
Image resized for the reading room. Source content retained. Mount says Planeing the stock; normalize caption spelling to planing. Distinct pose/view from ED-P 96771874. March 24, 1919 is REC'D. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain
Credit: War Department. 1789-9/18/1947 / This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by National Archives and Records Administration as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the Digital Public Library of America , via its partner Digital Public Library of America .
Record in source catalog
DPLA identifier: 38a18902f142fcf56c3cfa8f489a0822
National Archives Identifier: 45521499. Cite SGC SGC-CT040-040, ED-P97019116, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-12.
VIEW, LOOKING EAST, SHOWING OPEN SPACE AT RANGE BUILDING AT NORTH END, Interior - Winchester Repeating Arms Company, Tract K Shooting Range, 125 Munson Street (rear section), HAER CONN,5-NEWHA,39-3.tif
Open interior at the north end of Winchester's Tract K range.
Image resized for the reading room. Source content retained. Film border HAER CT-28-3 is consistent with range survey sequence. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain
VIEW, LOOKING SOUTHEAST, SHOWING DETAIL OF RANGE 1 TARGET END, Interior - Winchester Repeating Arms Company, Tract K Shooting Range, 125 Munson Street (rear section), New Haven, HAER CONN,5-NEWHA,39-6.tif
Target end of Winchester Range 1.
Image resized for the reading room. Source content retained. Interior and visible HAER CT-28-6 film label support selected survey subject. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain
ED-P68161811 · Photographs · Between 1914 and 1918
Women making Browning machine guns - general view of polishing shop, Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn. LCCN94506155.jpg
Women in Winchester's polishing shop. Title: Women making Browning machine guns - general view of polishing shop, Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn.
Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print.
Image resized for the reading room. Source content retained. LOC Created/Published explicitly supplies range, not single 1914. https://www.loc.gov/item/94506155/ Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain
Credit: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress / Library of Congress
Catalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/94506155
Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c10000/3c11000/3c11100/3c11139v.jpg
Original url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/94506155/. Cite SGC SGC-CT040-040, ED-P68161811, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-12.
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