Railroad Ferries

Photograph

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Groton Public Library

Railroad Ferries

Name/Title

Railroad Ferries

Entry/Object ID

2026.040.117

Description

Black and white reproduction print or a photograph of the railroad ferries THAMES RIVER and GROTON docked side by side, c. 1876. These ferries transported railroad cars across the Thames River for the New Haven, New London and Stonington Railroad (later the Shore Line Railway and New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad), before the Thames River Railroad Bridge was completed in 1889.

Collection

Carol Kimball Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2026.040

Source or Donor

Carol Kimball

Acquisition Method

Transfer

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Provenance

Notes

Part of a collection of records collected by Carol Kimball during her tenure as the Town of Groton Historian; given to the Groton Historical Society following her death; stored for several years at the Avery Copp Museum; donated to the Groton Public Library 2026

Copyright

Restrictions

For research use only, courtesy of the Steamship Historical Society.