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Title	Coast Guard boat delivering emergency supplies, Hartford, March 1936.
Place	Connecticut River Hartford (Conn.) Bulkeley Bridge (Conn.)
Topic	Billboards Bridges Disaster relief Buses Gunboats Boats and boating Flood, 1936
Topic-Organization, Vessel	United States. Coast Guard
Theme	Infrastructure Environment
Description	Bow of Coast Guard patrol boat CG-176 abuts pier of Bulkeley Bridge. Men on bridge haul a package on a rope. A bus with a sign that reads: "Special" and an automobile are parked on the bridge. Lampposts line both sides of the bridge. The Hartford skyline is in the background. Billboards read: "Bond Hotels" "Sunkist / Serve a Fresh Salad Today." Other signs read: "Sage-Allen" "Brown Thomson & Co." "Paramount Grille" "Basch & Co. Produce" "Flinberg [?] Bros. / Furniture." The Connecticut River is in spring freshet and the water level is high. Inscribed on image: "Coast Guard Boat tied to lampost [sic] on Memorial Bridge / receiving [?] emergency supplies - Great Flood - 1936."
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. The Paramount Grille, a restaurant, was located at 120 Connecticut Boulevard. Charles Basch & Co., a fruit dealer, was at 89 Connecticut Boulevard. 75 foot wooden Coat Guard patrol boat, a small cutter, built by the Rice Brothers Corporation in East Boothbay, Maine in the early 1930s.
Date created	1936
Physical format	1 photographic print: : postcard ; 9 x 14 cm.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number X.2000.22.113 File name 0534 img0007.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.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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