Details
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