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Absecom [sic] light house, from the Sand Hand Hills, N.J. [graphic] / J. Moran.
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Creator
Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer.
Contributor
Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872, engineer.
Title
Absecom [sic] light house, from the Sand Hand Hills, N.J. [graphic] / J. Moran.
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1861
Date
[ca. 1861]
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17 cm. (3 x 7 in.)
Description
View showing a man leaning down to pick something up in the sand dunes in Atlantic City, with the Absecon Lighthouse in the background. The lighthouse, the tallest in New Jersey and the third tallest masonry lighthouse in the United States, was constructed 1854-1857 after designs by George Meade and deactivated in 1933.
Is part of
Unidentified series No. 45
Notes
Title from label pasted on verso.
Photographer's blind stamp on mount.
Duplicate photograph, #67 entitled "Light house - Atlantic City," in Moran album, "Old Philadelphia Views, 1861." See albums - Moran [P.9265].
Creme mount with square corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Absecon Lighthouse (Atlantic City, N.J.)
Lighthouses -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Dunes -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Geographic subject
Atlantic City (New Jersey)
Genre
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name
Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872, engineer.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Moran - Views [P.8464.13]
Accession number
P.8464.13
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