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[Boathouse Row,] Fairmount, Philadelphia. [graphic].
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Contributor
James Greenman & Sons, distributor.
Title
[Boathouse Row,] Fairmount, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia : From James Greenman & Sons, paper hangers & stationers, No. 618 North Second Street
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date
[ca. 1875]
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description
View looks northwest from the steamboat landing adjacent to the Fairmount Waterworks showing boathouse row and floating boathouses, including George Popps Park Boat House and Union Boat House operated by Wm. F. Cline. Includes the boathouse built in 1872 for the Vesper and Malta boat clubs, the University Barge Club boathouse constructed in 1871, Bachelors boathouse built 1860, and the boathouse constructed 1869-1871 for the Pennsylvania Barge Club and Crescent Boat Club. A man sits on the dock in the foreground.
Is part of
American Scenery.
Notes
Title on negative.
Distributor's imprint printed on mount.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Bachelors Barge Club -- Buildings.
Crescent Boat Club -- Buildings.
Malta Boat Club -- Buildings.
Pennsylvania Barge Club -- Buildings.
University Barge Club of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
Vesper Boat Club -- Buildings.
Boathouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clubhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Boat House Row (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Printer
James Greenman & Sons, distributor.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Recreation [P.9260.1]
Accession number
P.9260.1
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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