Our series examining an Image of the Week from the photographic files, by Kevin Warstadt, Edward Connery Lathem ’51 Digital Library Fellow.

Bread delivery by rowboat 1932

Shown above is an image from the folder titled “Floods.” Notes on the back of the image indicate that it was taken in 1932 and depicts a bread delivery by rowboat. In September of that year, New Hampshire was hit by a record-breaking 7.8 inches of rain over the course of a single day.

New England was plagued by several nasty floods in the first half of the twentieth century, including the 1936 “Flood of the Century” which put Nashua, NH, underwater and did millions of dollars in damage across the region.

More images of New Hampshire floods can be found in the Dartmouth Photographic Files Collection.