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D & H Canal & coal dock, Honesdale, Pa. [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A102005
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Contributor
Wright, Benjamin, 1770-1842, engineer.
Title
D & H Canal & coal dock, Honesdale, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher
United States
Publisher
US. 1885
Date
ca. 1885
Physical Description
1 photographic print: gelatin silver on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description
View showing the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company boat and coal dock on the canal. The Delaware and Hudson canal, constructed from 1825-1828 after the designs of engineer Benjamin Wright, was conceived by Philadelphia merchants, William and Maurice Wurtz, as a means to transport anthracite coal from northeastern Pennsylvania to New York. Depicts in the foreground, workers standing on one of several docked canal boats used to transport coal hauled to Honesdale by the Pennsylvania Coal Company gravity railroad. In the background, a Pennsylvania Coal Company locomotive steams down the tracks past mountains of coal.
Notes
Orange mount with rounded corners.
Title from manuscript note on mount.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company.
Pennsylvania Coal Company.
Canals -- Pennsylvania -- Honesdale.
Canal boats -- Pennsylvania -- Honesdale.
Railroads, Gravity.
Coal -- Pennsylvania -- Honesdale.
Geographic subject
Delaware and Hudson Canal (N.Y. and Pa.)
Genre
Stereographs -- 1880-1890.
Gelatin silver prints -- 1880-1890.
Associated name
Wright, Benjamin, 1770-1842, engineer.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified -Transportation [P.9212.4]
Accession number
P.9212.4
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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