Bridge Across the Connecticut River
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B.

"Old Hartford Toll Bridge; burnt May 17th 1895, Hartford, Conn."
Postcard mailed 1910.

"No ...or Merchant's Wagons" (?)
Above was my guess from postcard B as to the sign in the left arc.

A more recently acquired postcard shows the following:

"To See the Bargains in Mulcahy's Window"

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."  Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia.

"Temporary Wooden Bridge between Hartford and East Hartford - Opened to Travel June 8, 1895 - Carried away by Flood December 23, 1895" "Temporary Iron Bridge between Hartford and East Hartford - Opened to Travel June 12, 1896 - Removed in 1908"
Later Photographs of the bridge in the collection of the Library of Congress - go to site and search for "Hartford Bridge" - choose items 1 through 7

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