View looking northeast from the Fairmount Water Works showing several spectators watching the regatta from the bank of the Schuylkill River and the balcony of a boat house. View also includes a canal boat., White paper mount with square corners., Title from accompanying label., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks - Fairmount [(3)1322.F.122f]
View showing the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company boat and coal dock on the canal. The Delaware and Hudson canal, constructed from 1825-1828 after the designs of engineer Benjamin Wright, was conceived by Philadelphia merchants, William and Maurice Wurtz, as a means to transport anthracite coal from northeastern Pennsylvania to New York. Depicts in the foreground, workers standing on one of several docked canal boats used to transport coal hauled to Honesdale by the Pennsylvania Coal Company gravity railroad. In the background, a Pennsylvania Coal Company locomotive steams down the tracks past mountains of coal., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on mount., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1885
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified -Transportation [P.9212.4]