2-752-469 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Scenes in Bridgeport, Stratford, and Milford', 1874. 'Bridgeport Harbor; Black Rock; Stratford Light; Mill River; Stratford Meadows; View in Milford', Connecticut, USA. Views around the coast of New England. '...we come to Milford, picturesque with stately, shadowing elms, and a most seductive length of green neatly inclosed. Here flows the silvery Wap-o-waug, giving the railway-passenger free transit over its clear waters by a pretty bridge and bosky banks'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]