The union House after the blizzard

The union House after the blizzard

The Great Blizzard of March 11 to 14, 1888, raged for four days piling drifts of snow as high as 17 feet in the streets of Stamford. All business was suspended while the city dug itself out. Here is the scene in front of the Union House a week after the blizzard. Note the Black hole in the center of the snowdrift. This was the entrance to a tunnel through the drifts that was dug from the porch of the Union House to the porch of the Stamford House across the street. This is the sixteenth in a series of old-time Stamford photographs being displayed.

Lobozza, Carl

Lobozza Collection -

1888-03

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1880s

Scanned photographic print December 2011, JPEG