Details
Title [Steamboats on the Schuylkill River, near Boathouse Row, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View looking north showing the steamboat landing and Boathouse Row on the Schuylkill River immediately north of the Fairmount Water Works. A small canoe floats in the water in the foreground. Also shows two steamboats on the river near the landing and three boathouses in the background, including the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society boathouse built in 1861 (left), the boathouse built in 1872 for the Vesper and Malta boat clubs (center), the University Barge Club boathouse constructed in 1871 (right). Other boat houses are obscured by trees.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Malta Boat Club -- Buildings.
University Barge Club of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
Vesper Boat Club -- Buildings.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Steamboats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boathouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clubhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Boat House Row (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East.
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Transportation [P.8709.12]
Accession number P.8709.12