Train Wreck, Tariffville, Connecticut: Railroad Cars Overturned off of Railroad Bridge into Water
PhotographerPhotographed by
Daniel S. Camp
American, 1844 - 1878
PublisherPublished by
Daniel S. Camp
American, 1844 - 1878
Date1878
MediumPhotography; albumen prints on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 1/16 x 3 1/8in. (7.8 x 7.9cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 1/16 x 3 1/8in. (7.8 x 7.9cm)
Mount (height x width): 3 3/8 x 6 7/8in. (8.6 x 17.5cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 1/16 x 3 1/8in. (7.8 x 7.9cm)
Mount (height x width): 3 3/8 x 6 7/8in. (8.6 x 17.5cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
DescriptionSeveral shattered railroad cars lie on the banks of a river. One car, at the left, hangs off the end of a damaged railroad bridge. Spectators, mostly men in dark overcoats, stand in the foreground and climb on debris. Additional spectators on the far bank of the river include some women. Leafless trees and evergreen trees are in the background.
Object number2013.30.11
InscribedOn verso, printed in black ink, "PHOTOGRAPHIC SKETCHES / IN AND ABOUT THE / CITY OF HARTFORD."; lower right, in pencil, accession numberNotesSubject Note: On 15 January 1878, a locomotive and several coaches of a Connecticut Western Railroad train plunged from a bridge into the Farmington River in Tariffville, Connecticut. Thirteen people were killed and more than seventy were injured. (Finlay 12/21/2013)On View
Not on view
Charles E. H. Bonwell
1865
