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Title
Hartford
,
Flood
of
1854
.
Creator
Ropes, Joseph, 1812-1885.
Place
Connecticut River.State Street (Hartford, Conn.)
Topic
Commercial buildings
Floods
Bridges
Topic-Organization, Vessel
American Hotel.
Genre
Drawings
Theme
Environment
Infrastructure
Description
View
looking
east
on
State
Street
at
Market
Street
and
American
Row
. The
Connecticut
River
is
in
flood
from
Lower
State
Street
to the
East
Hartford
Shore
in the
background
. On the
left
side
is
the
Hartford
Covered
Bridge
and a
steamboat
directly
below
the
bridge
.
Businesses
include
Calhoun
Steam
Printing
at
26
State
Street
, the
Connecticut
Union
and the
Republican
Office
,
all
in the
same
building
. The
large
building
on the
left
side
of the
intersection
is
the
Mercantile
Bank
on
Market
Street
. On
American
Row
is
the
American
Hotel
, with a
cupola
on the
top
and
porches
facing
the
street
. On the
first
floor
of the
hotel
building
is
A.M
.
Gordon
,
tailor
, of the
American
Clothing
Store
and
S.C
.
Preston
,
physician
and
surgeon
. On the
second
floor
above
,
is
C.C
.
Osborn
,
Charter
Oak
Drug
Store
.
Directly
to the
right
is
the
American
Hall
. The
second
floor
of this
building
is
shared
by the
Hartford
Savings
Bank
and
Building
Association
,
Rice
,
sign
painter
, and the
Religious
Herald
. The
first
floor
is
shared
by
R.R
.
Phelps
,
grocer
,
Jacob
Naedle
,
boot
maker
, and the
American
Restaurant
.
Notes
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Date created
1854
Physical format
1
drawing
;
28
x
60
cm
.
Digital format
image/jp2
Identifier
Accession
number
:
1855.23.0
<br>
File
name
:
chs_1855_23_0.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
.
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