subject: Connecticut River
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South Hadley, view from Holyoke.
description- – View of old dam and the Carew, Hampshire, and Glasgow mills. A trench is being dug for the foundation of the 1898 Dam.
- – Water power - economic aspects
- – Connecticut River (Mass.)
- – Mills (Buildings)--Massachusetts--South Hadley
- – South Hadley (Mass.) -- History -- Pictorial works.
- – Dams -- Massachusetts -- Holyoke
- – Glasgow Company (South Hadley, Ma.)
- – 1894
- – From the collection of the South Hadley Historical Society, South Hadley, Mass. http://home.comcast.net/~robertjudge/index.html
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- – S. Hadley MA
Flatboat used in South Hadley Canal.
description- – Some flatboats were about 70 feet long and 12 feet wide, with a capacity of 30 tons, some with seven men, three working on each side and the captain steering.
- – Canal-boats -- History
- – Flatboats -- Massachusetts
- – South Hadley (Mass.)
- – Hampshire County (Mass.) -- History
- – Flatboats -- Connecticut River (Mass.)
- – Drawing
- – 1795-1845
- – From the collection of the South Hadley Historical Society, South Hadley, Mass. http://home.comcast.net/~robertjudge/index.html
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- – S. Hadley MA
Thorpe Hill Road, Holyoke Massachusetts
description- – Image of ?Thorpe Hill Road? which later became Northampton Street in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Taken from a location south of Dinosaur Park, this image shows a dirt road bounded on the right by a scrubby field, wooden fence and telegraph poles and on the left by the Connecticut River. Across the river is a misty view of a thick forest.
- – c.1890
- – Image is part of the Holyoke Public Library Photograph Collection, Holyoke, Mass. http://www.holyokelibrary.org
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A cove near the sawmill, Holyoke, Mass.
description- – Image of two men working with logs in a cove off the Connecticut River. One man is standing upright and holding a long pike pole while the other man is bent over the log and is pulling on the log with a chain and a short pole. These men may be feeding the logs up the sluice to the mill. On the banks of the cover behind them rest piles of logs.
- – Loggers--Massachusetts--Holyoke
- – Connecticut River--History
- – Industries--Massachusetts--Holyoke
- – Logging--Massachusetts--Holyoke
- – ca. 1900
- – Image is part of the Clifton Johnson Collection, 1880-1940. Jones Library Special Collections, Amherst, Massachusetts. http://www.joneslibrary.org
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Hockanum Ferry, Northampton bank, Mass.
description- – Image shows the Hockanum Ferry having just landed on the Northampton side of the Connecticut River after transporting a horse-drawn wagon filled with a large load of hay. Sitting atop the hay, according to the inscription on the back of the photograph, is Uncle Sam Russell. There are a couple of skiffs floating beside the ferry, and the ferryman is pushing the edge of the ferry with a pole to make a better landing for the wagonload of hay.
- – Ferries--Massachusetts--Hadley
- – Hay--Massachusetts--Hadley
- – Russell, Samuel, 1866-1950
- – Connecticut River
- – ca. 1900
- – Image is part of the Clifton Johnson Collection, 1880-1940. Jones Library Special Collections, Amherst, Massachusetts. http://www.joneslibrary.org
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