New Haven Docks & Long Wharf
A photographic history with cited opening dates, collection history and individually credited images. Historic views, later photographs and illustrations are dated separately. This is a selected collection, not an exhaustive inventory.

id: SGC92-S1
title: Long Wharf Pier: National Register nomination
url: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/decd/historic-preservation/06_about_shpo/state-review-board/2024-meetings/june-14/long-wharf-pier-nr.pdf
summary: Documents the 1663 origin, William Lanson’s 1810 extension and the 1890 railroad sale.
kind: Historical sources
date: Source dates described in record
credit: Long Wharf Pier: National Register nomination
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id: SGC92-S2
title: National Endowment for the Humanities: William Lanson Shaped New Haven
url: https://www.neh.gov/article/william-lanson-shaped-new-haven
summary: Account of Lanson’s engineering, enterprise and experience as a Black New Haven resident.
kind: Historical sources
date: Source dates described in record
credit: National Endowment for the Humanities: William Lanson Shaped New Haven
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id: SGC92-S3
title: Connecticut History: New Haven’s Long Wharf
url: https://connecticuthistory.org/new-havens-long-wharf/
summary: Explains the shallow harbor and the use of smaller vessels to transfer cargo before wharf expansion.
kind: Historical sources
date: Source dates described in record
credit: Connecticut History: New Haven’s Long Wharf
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id: PHOTO-10243839
title: New Haven Harbor from the depot tower
kind: Photographs
date: Circa 1865–1870
institution: New Haven Docks & Long Wharf
summary: Whitney, Beckwith & Paradice’s stereoscopic view looks toward the harbor and Long Wharf. The two adjacent pictures form one stereograph, preserved here as a complete historical object.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harbor_and_long_Wharf,_from_Depot_Tower,_New_Haven,_by_Whitney,_Beckwith_%26_Paradice.jpg
credit: Whitney, Beckwith & Paradice -- Photographer; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons
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id: PHOTO-58572711
title: Long Wharf, New Haven, CT, USA - panoramio
kind: Photographs
date: 1 September 2014
institution: New Haven Docks & Long Wharf
summary: Long Wharf, New Haven, CT, USA
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Long_Wharf,_New_Haven,_CT,_USA_-_panoramio.jpg
credit: bynyalcin; CC BY 3.0; Wikimedia Commons
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id: PHOTO-58572725
title: Long Wharf, New Haven, CT, USA - panoramio (1)
kind: Photographs
date: 1 September 2014
institution: New Haven Docks & Long Wharf
summary: Long Wharf, New Haven, CT, USA
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Long_Wharf,_New_Haven,_CT,_USA_-_panoramio_(1).jpg
credit: bynyalcin; CC BY 3.0; Wikimedia Commons
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id: PHOTO-3877774
title: Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge (Connecticut)
kind: Photographs
date: 2008-04-12
institution: New Haven Docks & Long Wharf
summary: 1958 Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge (Q Bridge) over the Quinnipiac River in New Haven, Connecticut , with the Tomlinson Lift Bridge behind it.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pearl_Harbor_Memorial_Bridge_(Connecticut).jpg
credit: Denimadept; CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
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