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Harper's Weekly, "The Danbury Disaster"

Title: Harper's Weekly, "The Danbury Disaster"
Description: 2 pgs, 8.5 x 11"
Creator: Harper's weekly; Davis, Theodore R.
Abstract: An issue of Harper's Weekly that contains an article on page 124 about the January 31st 1869 flood of the Kohanza Reservoir in Danbury. The drawings used in the issue were by Theodore R. Davis who is well known for his Civil War illustrations made at the front. Included is a Google Maps image of the Lower Kohanza Dam.
Date: 1869-02-20
Subject: Floods--Connecticut--History; Kohanza Dam; Still River Danbury CT
Publisher: Harper's weekly

Item sets: Miscellaneous Historic Newspaper Collection, MS 045

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Harper’s weekly, and Davis, Theodore R. 1869. “Harper’s Weekly, ‘The Danbury Disaster’”. Harper’s weekly, Digital Archival Objects at WestConn, accessed June 7, 2026, https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/omeka-s/s/digital/item/11002