Searching for Dead in New Bridge Disaster
Date1941
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions: 7 3/16 × 9in. (18.3 × 22.9cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Lynn Ferrari
DescriptionBlack and white Acme Newspictures photograph of the December 4, 1941 recovery effort following the collapse of a section of the Charter Oak Bridge during construction. The wreckage of the bridge occupies the background of the photograph with crowds of onlookers on a rock outcropping and State policemen in two rowboats in the middle and foreground.
Object number2017.86.28
CopyrightCopyright held by Acme
InscribedTyped on paper affixed to back of photograph: “629680……………… NEW YORK BUREAU / SEARCHING FOR DEAD IN NEW BRIDGE DISASTER / HARTFORD, CONN.--STATE POLICE AND DIVERS IN / BOATS SEARCH THE WATERS OF THE CONNECTICUT / RIVER FOR THE DEAD ALONGSIDE THE WRECKAGE / OF THE NEW $4,400,000 BRIDGE BEING ERECTED / OVER THE RIVER. WHICH COLLAPSED, DEC. 4TH, / HURLING MORE THAN A SCORE OF WORKMEN INTO / THE WATERS 150 FEET BELOW. THE ACCIDENT / OCCURRED WHEN A 98-TON GIRDER SLIPPED FROM / A CRANE, KNOCKED AGAINST SEVERAL OTHER / SECTIONS, EACH WEIGHING 95 TONS, AND ON / WHICH THE WORKERS WERE GETTING INTO PLACE. AT LEAST SEVEN / BODIES WERE RECOVERED AND TWENTY OTHER WORKERS / RECEIVED HOSPITAL TREATMENT. THE CRANE, SAID / TO BE THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD, TOPPLED INTO / THE RIVER AS DID THREE SECTIONS OF THE HUGE / BRIDGE. / CREDIT LINE (ACME) 12/4/41 (GW)” Stamped in red on back: "DISP. DEC 8 1941"
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