Details
Creator Rease, W. H.
Title Steam tug Atlantic [graphic] : Lester D. Schellinger, commander. 300 tons register. Ships of the largest class towed to and from sea. Office 78 South Delaware Avenue. / Lith. W.H. Rease, N.E. cor. 4th & Chestnut Sts., Phila.
Publisher [Philadelphia]: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date [ca. 1860]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 64 x 90 cm.(25 x 35 in.)
Description Advertisement for the "Atlantic" tugboat operated by Schellinger. Shows the tug cruising on the water with a man at the helm and another at the bow. The vessel carries an American flag, a flag with the name of the boat, and a lifeboat. Also shows sailboats in the right of the image. By the mid-nineteenth century steam tugs supplanted oared tugs in the navigation of sailing ships through rivers to their port of call.
Notes Tug specifications printed below the image: Length.....151 feet. Depth.....10 ". Breadth.....49 ". Engine 650 Horse Power. Diameter of Cylinder 52 inches. Stroke of Piston 10 feet.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 242
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Tugboats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW - Transportation [P.8970.33]
Accession number P.8970.33