Details
Creator Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, engraver.
Contributor McAllister, John, 1786-1877, publisher.
Title Arch Street ferry, Philadelphia [graphic] / Drawn, engraved & published by W. Birch Springland near Bristol Pennsylvania 1800.
Publisher [Philadelphia] : [John McAllister]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date [ca. 1860]
Physical Description 1 print : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 32 x 40 cm (12.5 x 15.75 in.)
Description View of the Arch Street ferry terminal on the Delaware River. Depicts Philadelphia's busy waterfront and includes sailing ships, warehouses, bartering merchants, and dock workers weighing, as well as loading, barrels and bundles of produce onto carts. Others, including white women, are fishing and looking out onto the river. To the far left of an unoccupied dock, dock workers, including an African American man, move large bundles. At the turn of the 19th century ferries were the main source of transportation to Southern New Jersey. New Jersey provided much of the fresh produce sold at Philadelphia markets.
Is referenced by Snyder, City of independence, 210
Snyder, "William Birch: his Philadelphia views," 4d
Notes Inscribed: 1.
Title from item.
Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 4.
Accessioned 1979.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American stevedores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ferries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Marine terminals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Shipping.
Stevedores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Waterfronts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870.
Printer McAllister, John, 1786-1877, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Birch's views [Sn 4c/P.2276.7]
Accession number Sn 4c/P.2276.7
P.2276.7