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Image Not Available for Unemployed Workers Digging Ditch at Rocky Ridge Park, Hartford
Unemployed Workers Digging Ditch at Rocky Ridge Park, Hartford
Image Not Available for Unemployed Workers Digging Ditch at Rocky Ridge Park, Hartford

Unemployed Workers Digging Ditch at Rocky Ridge Park, Hartford

Date1915
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 4 5/16 x 6 11/16in. (11 x 17cm)
DescriptionMen with shovels and pickaxes dig a broad trench at the top of a high escarpment, parallel to a paved road at the right. Most wear caps. Some wear overalls. Piles of earth are at left and right. A man in a fur coat sits [?] beside a utility pole. Horse-drawn wagons are in the distance. The Gothic buildings of Trinity College are on the opposite side of the street.
Object number2000.201.25
InscribedOn recto, beneath image: "Unemployed at Rocky Ridge Park."

On verso: "Unemployed - Jan. 1915 / Rocky Ridge Pk."
On View
Not on view
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