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Title
City
of
Hartford
,
Conn
.
1864
.
Creator
Bachmann, John.
Place
Hartford (Conn.)
Bushnell Park (Hartford, Conn.)
Connecticut River
Park River (Conn.)
Topic
Railroads
Reservoirs
Genre
Bird's-eye views
Theme
Environment
Infrastructure
Description
Bird's-eye
view
of
Hartford
,
looking
east
to the
Connecticut
River
. The
Park
River
begins
in the
bottom
right
corner
and
winds
through
the
city
,
bordering
Bushnell
Park
with
two
fountains
and
intersecting
paths
. The
Weed
Sewing
Machine
Co
.
factory
is
located
in the
foreground
next
to a
bridge
.
Pratt
&
Whitney
Mfg
.
Co
.
is
above
and to the
left
,
along
the
train
tracks
.
Trinity
College
is
located
to the
right
of the
bottom
half
of
Bushnell
Park
,
surrounded
by
trees
. The
two
streets
running
from the
bottom
left
corner
are
Asylum
Avenue
on the
left
and
Farmington
Avenue
on the
right
. The
railroad
tracks
leading
to
Union
belong
to the
Hartford
&
New
Haven
Railroad
and the
Hartford
,
Providence
,
&
Fishkill
Railroad
. The
factory
of
Colt
Patent
Fire
Arms
Mfg
.
Co
.
is
in the
right
background
. To the
left
of
Asylum
Avenue
is
the
Waterworks
Reservoir
, an
elevated
pool-like
area
along
Garden
Street
.
Just
below
and to the
right
of the
reservoir
is
the
American
Asylum
for the
Deaf
and
Dumb
. The
church
on the
left
side
of
Asylum
Avenue
near
the
bottom
left
corner
is
the
Asylum
Hill
Congregation
Church
. A
covered
bridge
crosses
the
crosses
the
Connecticut
River
to
East
Hartford
.
Steamboats
and
sailing
vessels
are on the
river
.
Notes
Perspective
map
not
drawn
to
scale
.
Published
by
J
.
Weidermann
.
Printed
by
F
.
Heppenheimer
1864
.
[Hartford]
:
J
.
Weidermann
,
1864
.
Publisher
[Hartford] : J. Weidermann, 1864.
Physical format
1
print
:
lithograph
;
44
x
60
cm
.
Identifier
Accession
number
:
1960.93.20
image/jp2
File
name
:
chs_1960_93_20.jp2
Source
The
Connecticut
Historical
Society
.
Rights
Reproduction
and
copyright
information
regarding
this
image
is
available
from The
Graphics
Collection
of The
Connecticut
Historical
Society
,
Hartford
.
Sub-collection
Birds eye views
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