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for Downtown Hartford, Flood of 1936
Downtown Hartford, Flood of 1936
Date1936
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver prints on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 1/8 x 5 1/4in. (7.9 x 13.3cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 3 3/8 x 5 5/8in. (8.6 x 14.3cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 3 3/8 x 5 5/8in. (8.6 x 14.3cm) or smaller
Credit LineGift of Paula Bowman
DescriptionViews of floodwaters in downtown Hartford include scenes on Grove Street, Prospect Street, Trumbull Street, Front Street, and in Bushnell Park. Businesses include the Southern New England Telephone Company, Travelers Insurance Company, Weeks Corner Cigar Store, the Bond Hotel, the Garde Hotel, the Hartford Club, the Capitol National Bank Building, Case, Lockwood, and Brainard, and Buck's. Soldiers and Sailor Arch and the Tercentenary Building are visible in Bushnell Park. Some photographs include leafless trees, rowboats, trucks, traffic signals, street lights, men wearing overcoats or raincoats. One photograph shows Connecticut National Guard troops on Morgan Street "ready for flood duty."
Object number2009.1.0.1-.20
MarkingsEach photograph has a slip of paper with a typewritten inscription indicating exactly when and where the photograph was taken.InscribedOn verso, lower right, in pencil, accession numberOn View
Not on view