Details
Creator Newell, Robert, 1822-1897.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Monitors, League Island, Philada. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Published by R. Newell, 724 Arch Street, Philad'a
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Shows out of service ironclad warships docked by the Navy Department at the island at the junction of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. Island opened officially as the Navy Yard in 1876.
Is part of American views
Notes Publisher's label pasted on verso.
White paper mount with square corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #148.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Warships -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Naval yards & naval stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject League Island (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Military [(8)1322.F.13b]
Accession number (8)1322.F.13b