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Details
Creator Rease & Schell, artist.
Contributor Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Title Steam tugs, Columbus and Alert. Vessels of all classes towed to and from sea and about the harbor; towing to and from Schuylkill and all other descriptions promptly attended to. S. Flanagan No. 78 South Delaware Avenue. [graphic] / Lith. by Rease & Schell, 17 So. 5th. St.
Publisher Philadelphia : T. Sinclair's lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with two stones ; 32 x 45 cm. (12.75 x 17.75 in.)
Description Advertisement for two tug boats, Columbus and Alert, depicting in the foreground the Columbus tugboat breaking the ice with a square-rigged ship in tow. Foggy view includes the helmsperson in the wheelhouse, and a man swinging open a door on the port side of the cabin. The steam tug, Alert, is visible in the left background, along with the horizon of Philadelphia. This scene is likely on the Schuylkill River.
Is referenced by Wainwright 353
Notes Additional title information on recto of lithograph provides the dimensions of both tugboats.
Date supplied by Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 725
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Tugboats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rivers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W353 [P.2258]
Accession number P.2258