Train wreck on the bank of the Connecticut River near the Holyoke Dam

Title:: Train wreck on the bank of the Connecticut River near the Holyoke Dam
Description:: A large group of people is standing on the tracks. Others are standing nearby or sitting on a pile of logs. Hundreds of logs are floating in the river. Children are climbing on a tipped West Shore Rail Road car and a Boston & Maine car is on the tracks. A locomotive is approaching from the south. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church is in the background. "Wreck at" is scratched into the glass negative.
Photographer:: Wilhelm, Carl Robert (1857-1940)
Date:: [ca. 1897]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Glass negatives
Location:: Holyoke Public Library
Collection (local):: Holyoke Public Local History Collection
Series:: Series 1: Photographs and negatives
Subjects:: Railroad trains
Railroad accidents
Places:: Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Holyoke
Train wreck site, Holyoke, Massachusetts
Extent:: 1 glass negative ; 12.7 x 20.3 cm
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