Meriden & Cromwell Railroad, Meriden Waterbury & Connecticut River Railroad Photograph album, undated, 1885-1951.

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Meriden & Cromwell Railroad, Meriden Waterbury & Connecticut River Railroad Photograph album, undated, 1885-1951.

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The album, compiled by Mr. James M.S. Ullman of Meriden, Connecticut, consists of 185 photographs almost exclusively depicting the locomotives, stations and other scenes of the Meriden & Cromwell Railroad and the Meriden, Waterbury, and Connecticut River Railroad. Most of the photographs have brief descriptions; most are dated. Of special interest are photographs of wrecks on August 10, 1888, and July 19, 1889, at Red Bridge, in Meriden, Connecticut, and a trolley wreck on October 10, 1913, on the Berlin Branch. Also of interest are photographs from the 1920s and 1930s of men on motorcycles who used the Meriden station as a base for their motorcycle club, and of Highland House (town unknown), a historic house that was located near the railroad line and burned down on November 24, 1914.

1.3 linear ft.

University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library

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University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library

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