2 RARE Stereoview Photos - Tariffville CT Train Disaster - by Allderige

Description: RARE old Stereoview Photographs 2 Scenes - Tariffville, Connecticut Train Disaster William Allderige ca. 1878 For offer, nice old stereoptican view card photos! Fresh from a prominent estate in Upstate, NY. Vintage, Old, Original - NOT a Reproduction - Guaranteed !! Nice views. Photographer imprint on backs - New Britain and Plainville. In good to very good condition. Lower corner ding to one view. As shown in photos - Please see photos. If you collect 19th century Americana history, sv photography, American history, etc. this is a treasure you will not see again! Add this to your image or paper / ephemera collection. Combine shipping on multiple purchases. 3437 The Tariffville train crash was a railroad accident that occurred on January 15, 1878 on the Connecticut Western line,[1] then a 69 mi (111 km) route linking Hartford and the Hudson Valley.[2] On January 15, 1878, around 10:00 PM,[1] a passenger train returning from Hartford crossed the wooden bridge spanning the Farmington River at Tariffville, as one of the two main bridge spans collapsed, dropping two locomotives, one baggage car and three passenger coaches into the icy river. Some people from New Hartford hitching a ride between the cars were killed when they were thrown beneath the wreck.[3] The wreck claimed 13 lives and injured more than 70, some severely.[2] Many of the passengers were returning from a Protestant revival meeting in Hartford featuring well-known evangelist Dwight L. Moody.[3] Residents of Tariffville provided emergency assistance for passengers and provided them with dry clothing and shelter. Dr. D.P. Pelletier was the first Hartford surgeon notified of the accident. He went to a drug store on Capitol Avenue and used the store's telephone to summon other doctors for a relief train in what is possibly the first emergency telephone call.[1][4] A special relief train carrying physicians and other rescue personnel was sent that became known as the "Samaritan Special."[3] Tariffville is a neighborhood and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Simsbury in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,324 at the 2010 census.[1] It is a popular location for whitewater paddlers who use the Farmington River. Part of the original mill village area is included in the Tariffville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The historic district excludes newer development around West Point Terrace and Hayes Road, as well as properties along White Water Turn, Wooster Road, and Main Street Extension. The historic district is architecturally significant for preserving some evidence of early nineteenth-century mill village characteristics (in retaining some old mill housing and street layout) and for also preserving later 19th-century Greek Revival and Gothic Revival structures. Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopics, or stereo imaging) is a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision.[2] The word stereoscopy derives from Greek στερεός (stereos) 'firm, solid' and σκοπέω (skopeō) 'to look, to see'.[3][4] Any stereoscopic image is called a stereogram. Originally, stereogram referred to a pair of stereo images which could be viewed using a stereoscope. Most stereoscopic methods present a pair of two-dimensional images to the viewer. The left image is presented to the left eye and the right image is presented to the right eye. When viewed, the human brain perceives the images as a single 3D view, giving the viewer the perception of 3D depth. However, the 3D effect lacks proper focal depth, which gives rise to the Vergence-accommodation conflict. Stereoscopy is distinguished from other types of 3D displays that display an image in three full dimensions, allowing the observer to increase information about the 3-dimensional objects being displayed by head and eye movements.

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