Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title League Island postcards. [graphic].
Date 1900-1935
Physical Description 45 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Contains images of the Naval Yard on League Island, an island four miles south of Philadelphia, purchased by the government in the 1870s to accommodate larger iron ship building facilities. Includes various views of activity in the Naval Yard including docked ships viewed from the river and men building and repairing ships on the dry dock. Specific ships include: the Mississippi, Washington, St. Louis and the Tennessee. Also depicts an exterior view of the barracks, the old sea wall and the officer's quarters.
Notes Contains 33 postcards printed in color and 11 printed in black and white. Also contains 1 linen postcard.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Naval yards & naval stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject League Island (Pa.)
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1940.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [League Island - 130]
Accession number 130-a01-a
130-a08-c