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View of Shelton from Derby.


Title main	View of Shelton from Derby.
Subject	Shelton (Conn.) Housatonic River (Mass. and Conn.)
Subject	Railroads -- Track Rivers Industrial buildings Ice on rivers, lakes, etc.
Subject	Photographs
Category	Infrastructure Environment
Description	Train tracks run along the Housatonic River and cross the river on an iron bridge. Ice is in the river above the railroad bridge and the banks of the river are flooded.Leafless trees and utility poles are partially submerged in water. Industrial buildings line the Derby shore in the right foreground and the Shelton shore in the background. A sign on the Derby shore reads: "Corset Company." Some industrial buildings have smokestacks. Laundry hangs on clotheslines behind some buildings, probably multiple family dwellings. Churches, frame houses and fields are in the distance. Inscribed on back: "Shelton - from Derby, Ct."
Description notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Date created	[between 1870 and 1889]
Format extent	1 photographic print ; 12 x 20 cm.
Format medium	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number X.2000.35.193 File name 2821 img0057.pcd
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society.
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
SeqNum	3503
ObjCol	Photographs

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