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If you’d like to continue your journey on the Connecticut
River, here are some suggestions.
If you’re looking for all of the images
of the Connecticut River in the database:
Try a simple search for “Connecticut
River.” Be sure to include the quotation marks so that you
search for both words together. Or try a boolean search for Connecticut
AND River.
Another option is to perform a refined search
for Connecticut River “as a phrase.” If you search for
Connecticut River “as a phrase” and “as a place
name,” you’ll find those images in which the river is
especially prominent.
A final option is to use the GeoLocator.
You’ll find a heading for the Connecticut River at its mouth
in Old Saybrook. Clicking on this link will retrieve all those
records in which Connecticut River appears as a place name.
Related subjects that you may want to search
include:
Boats and boating
Barges
Ferries
Fishing boats
Sailing ships
Steamboats
Tugboats
Bridges
Covered bridges
Drawbridges
Railroad bridges
Fisheries
Fishermen
Fishing nets
Fish trade
Quarries and quarrying
Tobacco barns
Tobacco industry
Tobacco workers
Floods (see also specific floods, for example,
“Flood, 1955”)
Hurricanes (see also specific hurricanes, for example, “Hurricane,
1938”)
To limit your search to images of the Connecticut
River Valley, perform a refined search and include Connecticut
River “as a place name” as one of the search terms.
Another approach is to search for images
of towns along the Connecticut River.
These include Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, Essex, Deep River, Chester,
Hadlyme, Haddam, East Haddam, Middletown, Portland, Middletown,
Cromwell, Glastonbury, Rocky Hill, Wetherfield, East Hartford,
Hartford, Windsor, South Windsor, East Windsor, Suffield and Enfield.
When searching for a town with a two-word
name, always be sure to put the name in quotation marks when doing
a simple search or to indicate that you want to search for the
name “as a phrase” when doing a refined search. Or try
using the GeoLocator and click on the individual place names.
You may also want to visit other rivers in
Connecticut and see how their histories compare with that of the
Connecticut’s great river. For example, look for images of
the “Thames River” or the “Housatonic River.”
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