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Mangled Automobile on Railroad Tracks
Image Not Available for Mangled Automobile on Railroad Tracks

Mangled Automobile on Railroad Tracks

Date1916-1927
MediumPhotography; gelatin emulsion on glass
DimensionsPlate (height x width): 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
DescriptionA badly smashed automobile is positioned immediately adjacent to railroad tracks. Very little of the exterior body of the car is visible; the chassis of the car is almost fully exposed, and it has been bent. In the background is a train locomotive on another track and a four-story brick building. Also in the background is a one-story frame building with this sign on it: "H. WHITE & CO. HAY, STRAW, GRAIN, AND FEED."
Object number1995.36.1508
NotesSubject Note: A 1923 article in the Hartford Courant describes how a gang of boys placed the chassis of an automobile on the railroad tracks in New Britain, Connecticut. A locomotive collided with chassis and carried it for half a mile. This photograph could relate to that incident; collisions between automobiles and railroad trains were fairly frequent in the 1910s and 1920s, but this photograph appears to show a stripped down chassis, not a complete car.
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Not on view
Image Not Available for Automobile class: students at work on chassis, Hillyer Institute, Y.M.C.A., Hartford, ca. 1910.
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about 1910
Image Not Available for Students in automobile class working on chassis, Hillyer Institute, Y.M.C.A., Hartford, January 1911.
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John C. Nyser
1911
Image Not Available for Philip Cheney on Railroad Tracks with Signal Flags
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1917 - 1918
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Unknown
about 1910
Image Not Available for Moosup Ford Sales and Service, Moosup (Plainfield)
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1915
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Richard Welling
before 2009
Image Not Available for Automobile class, Hillyer Institute, Y.M.C.A., Hartford, ca. 1910.
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William G. Dudley
about 1910
Image Not Available for Fatal accident between a fire truck and an automobile, corner of Market Street and Talcott Street, Hartford
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William G. Dudley
1923
Image Not Available for G.M. White & Co., Connecticut Boulevard, East Hartford
G.M. White & Co., Connecticut Boulevard, East Hartford
Unknown
about 1910
Image Not Available for Men Working on Tracks, Main Steet, Hartford, 1902
Men Working on Tracks, Main Steet, Hartford, 1902
Unknown
1902
Image Not Available for Street scene with advertisement for the Master Loaf, New Haven vicinty
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Unknown
about 1925
Image Not Available for Trolley tracks under construction, Main Street, Hartford
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Unknown
1902
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