Coast Guard Boat Delivering Emergency Supplies, Hartford, March 1936
Date1936
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on postcard
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 3 9/16 x 5 1/2in. (9 x 14cm)
DescriptionBow of Coast Guard patrol boat CG-176 abuts pier of Bulkeley Bridge. Men on bridge haul a package on a rope. A bus with a sign that reads: "Special" and an automobile are parked on the bridge. Lampposts line both sides of the bridge. The Hartford skyline is in the background. Billboards read: "Bond Hotels" "Sunkist / Serve a Fresh Salad Today." Other signs read: "Sage-Allen" "Brown Thomson & Co." "Paramount Grille" "Basch & Co. Produce" "Flinberg [?] Bros. / Furniture." The Connecticut River is in spring freshet and the water level is high.
Object number2000.179.113
InscribedOn recto, inscribed on image: "Coast Guard Boat tied to lampost [sic] on Memorial Bridge / receiving [?] emergency supplies - Great Flood - 1936."NotesSubject Note: The Paramount Grille, a restaurant, was located at 120 Connecticut Boulevard. Charles Basch & Co., a fruit dealer, was at 89 Connecticut Boulevard. 75 foot wooden Coat Guard patrol boat, a small cutter, built by the Rice Brothers Corporation in East Boothbay, Maine in the early 1930s.
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