Details
Creator R. Newell & Son.
Title Ordinance Dept. Phila. Navy Yard. [graphic] / R. Newell & Son, landscape & business photographers, 633 Arch St., Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia : R. Newell & Son
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Exterior view showing neat piles of cannon balls stacked on platforms. A sign in the foreground reads: "No admittance on these grounds without permission". Also shows a building in the right background.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Photographer's imprint stamped on verso.
Orange curved mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note R. Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert Newell and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Subject Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Naval yards & naval stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cannon balls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ammunition -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Military [P.8709.9]
Accession number P.8709.9