No. 451, East Main Street, Norwich Flood: Museum Object and Cultural History
No. 451, East Main Street, Norwich Flood: date made: 1876-03-26. Object Name: stereograph. Physical Description: paper (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
black and white stereograph mounted on orange cardstock; photograph by Edward Z. Webster; printed on verso "Webster's / Stereoscopic Views of the Great Flood, Mar. 26, 1876. / Norwich, during the Flood / No. 451, Shows both sides of East Main street, from Union street, to the Universalist Church, Franklin Square, and almost the entire street is under water. / Gallery, corner Main and Shetucket Sts., Norwich."; handwritten on verso "Lewis No 3"; flooded, unpaved street flanked by flooded building extends through center of image from foreground to background; at end of street is the Universalist Church; in the foreground, a large group of men have gathered on both sides of the street to pose for the photograph
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1876-03-26
- Object Name: stereograph
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 4 in x 7 in; 10.16 cm x 17.78 cm
- place made: United States: Connecticut, Norwich
- Subject: Men
- Subject: Floods
- Subject: Disasters
- Subject: Architecture
- Subject: Church
- Subject: City landscape
- ID Number: 2012.3033.0721
- nonaccession number: 2012.3033
- catalog number: 2012.3033.0721
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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