Elmer F. Farnham Railroad collection, 1966.

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Elmer F. Farnham Railroad collection, 1966.

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The collection consists of photographs gathered by Elmer F. Farnham for his book The Quickest Route: the history of the Norwich & Worcester railroad, and other photographs of locomotives and railroad scenes of southern New England railroad and Norwich, Connecticut.

.5 linear ft.

University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library

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University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library

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Norwich and Worcester Railroad Company

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Farnham, Elmer F.

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Elmer Frost Farnham was born on January 21, 1893, in the Collinsville section of Canton, Connecticut, the son of Charles A. and Sarah (Beckwith) Farnham, and received his early education in the Canton public schools. He graduated from Collinsville High School in 1911 and then from the Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in 1915. In the early 1920's Mr. Farnham was a tobacco grower in Simsbury and South Windsor, Connecticut. He moved to Norwich, Connecticut, in 19...