Details
Creator Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer.
Title [Photographic Society of Philadelphia's Chesapeake & Ohio Canal excursion, May 21-29, 1882 album] [graphic] / John C. Browne.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1882
Date [1882-1886]
Physical Description 68 photographs in 1 album : albumen ; album 23 x 17 cm (9 x 6.75 in.)
Description Album belonging to Philadelphia amateur photographer John C. Browne. Primarily documents the Photographic Society of Philadelphia's Chesapeake & Ohio Canal excursion (May 21-29, 1882), including views of the Falls of the Potomac, Point of Rocks, Md., Harpers Ferry, Va., and Bedford, Pa. Society members attending the excursion included Charles Barrington, Joseph William Bates, Charles Pancoast, Frederick Graff, Samuel Corlies, George Bacon Wood, Samuel Sartain, W.H. Walmsley, Francis T. Fassitt, lens maker Joseph Zentmayer, Thomas H. McCollin, and Browne. Views depict scenes during the excursion along the canal, including canal barges; bridges, aquaducts; Paw Paw Tunnel; John Brown's Fort; a white Bedford woman attending an outside bake oven; men and boys, including a barefooted African American boy, sitting upon a porch of an old Maryland mill; the Photo Party at Patterson's Creek, Md.; a horse team pulling an oak log near Harper's Ferry; an old Bedford mill; and a barn covered with circus posters. Additional views depict the Brooklyn Bridge; sailing vessels on the New York Harbor, including the steamboat Maryland; and animals at the Philadelphia Zoo. Other animal portraiture includes horses posed with African American handlers (p. 26-27), a cow and calf at Forrest Hill, PA, a white girl on a pony ride at Central Park, and family dogs. Also includes a portrait of Lizzie Gilpin at Forrest Hill.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Front free end paper signed John C. Browne.
Blue cloth binding, with gilt and stamped: Album.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
See John C. Browne's "The Photographic Society of Philadelphia Annual Excursion, May 21-29, 1882," Philadelphia photographer 19 (July 1882), p. 213-215.
See George Bacon Wood research file, copy of "Excursion of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia over the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, May 22 to 29th 1882. Read at meeting June 7th, 1882 by Geo. B. Wood."
Insert: handkerchief printed with photograph vignettes [P.9318a] removed and housed with Textiles Collection, Print Department.
Gift of Col Getter, 1989.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Biographical / historical note Browne was a founder of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia.
Subject Barrington, Charles -- Portraits.
Bates, Joseph William, -1886 -- Portraits.
Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918 -- Portraits.
Corlies, S. Fisher (Samuel Fisher), 1830-1888 -- Portraits.
Fassitt, Francis T., -1905 -- Portraits.
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890 -- Portraits.
McCollin, Thomas H. -- Portaits.
Pancoast, Charles R., 1858- -- Portraits.
Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906 -- Portraits.
Walmsley, W. H. (William H.), 1829-1905 -- Portraits.
Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909 -- Portraits.
Zentmayer, Joseph -- Portraits.
Photographic Society of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Zoological Garden.
African American boys.
African American men.
Canals -- Northern States.
Dogs.
Horse grooms.
Horses -- Northern States.
Mills -- Northern States.
Geographic subject Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.)
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1890.
Landscape photographs -- 1870-1890.
Photograph albums -- 1870-1890.
Portrait photographs -- 1870-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums [P.9318]
Accession number P.9318