Absecom [sic] light house, from the Sand Hand Hills, N.J
Moran, John
1831-1903
photographer
Meade, George Gordon
1815-1872
engineer
still image
Graphic
Stereographs -- 1860-1870
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870
pau
Philadelphia
PA. Philadelphia
[ca. 1861]
1861
monographic
eng
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17 cm. (3 x 7 in.)
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.
J. Moran.
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.
Absecon Lighthouse (Atlantic City, N.J.)
Lighthouses
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Dunes
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Atlantic City (New Jersey)
P.8464.13
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department
stereo - Moran - Views [P.8464.13]
Unidentified series No. 45
Unidentified series
No. 45
gihc
ppl
010316
20230712170902.0
264677
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