Busy Philadelphia street scene depicting the Market Street Ferry terminal at the foot of Market Street at Delaware Avenue near the Ridgway Hotel. Horse-drawn cars, trolleys, and pedestrians, including an African American man leaning on a lamppost, crowd the street, markets, and sidewalks. The Market Street Ferry was established about 1800 and was a principal form of transportation from Philadelphia to Camden, New Jersey through the early 20th century., Title inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 429., Attributed to Philadelphia photographer Robert Newell., Reproduced in the Philadelphia evening public ledger, January 1, 1922., Gift of William E. Conner, 2000., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 69., Arcadia caption text: Ferries transported passengers from Philadelphia to various New Jersey towns along the Delaware River until 1952, long after the completion of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in 1926. Prior to the opening of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s service to New York City in 1867, travelers relied on the ferries from Philadelphia to connect with the Camden & Amboy Railroad in New Jersey. The custom of naming a ferry service after its owner changed when the ferries were adopted by the railroads, such as the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Market Street ferry terminal, depicted here in 1889, nine years before the railroad reconstructed the slips and station., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date
[ca. 1892]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Newell [P.9781.5]
