A Nutmeg Match: Perilous Plight Beneath the Ponderous Pile Driver – Vintage Print
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This historic image of A Nutmeg Match: Perilous Plight Beneath the Ponderous Pile Driver brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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A Nutmeg Match: Perilous Plight Beneath the Ponderous Pile Driver
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The title turns on Connecticut's nickname, the Nutmeg State, and the pun sets the tone: a figure caught under a ponderous pile driver, its peril rendered with mock drama. Pile drivers, heavy weights hoisted and dropped to sink timber piles, were a common sight in the 19th century on harbor works and building sites where foundations had to reach firm ground. The nutmeg name comes from a long-repeated story that some Connecticut peddlers sold carved wooden nutmegs, so the title's wordplay suggests the scene was meant to amuse as much as to inform.
| Original scan | 3,040 × 2,204 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 0108u |
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