Depicts three bare-masted, wooden schooners: the Francis J. McDonald, the Marie F. Cummins, and the Albert D. Cummins, known as the Dead Fleet, docked at Pier 76, between Mifflin and Snyder Streets in South Philadelphia., Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date
ca. 1945
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.10]
Advertisement for the Philadelphia lithographer containing a vignette of a maritime view. Shows sailboats, probably in the Delaware River at Philadelphia, sailing past Smith Island near larger ships at anchor in the city harbor at left. In the foreground, two men ground a small row boat carrying a small load., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 58, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithf Koll Kollvv
Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf Koll Kollvv
View of model sailboats on Gustine Lake in East Fairmount Park north of the Queen Lane Pumping Station near the confluence of the Wissahickon Creek and the Schuylkill River. A crowd stands around the perimeter of the lake., Title printed on mount below image., White curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging 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 - Parks [P.9573.29]
Depicts a large battleship with one engine stack and a high flying American flag on the Delaware River on Naval Day, one of many ships in the naval parade that opened the Peace Jubilee celebration of the end of the Spanish American War of 1898. A four-masted sailboat is docked along a Philadelphia pier. Various brick buildings are visible near the shore, along with City Hall tower in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
October 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.276]
Depicts Old Iron Sides, also known as the Constitution, a three-masted sailing vessel on the Delaware River on Naval Day during the Peace Jubilee celebration of end of the Spanish American War of 1898. Built 1794-97 in Edmund Hartt's Boston shipyard., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
October 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.287]
View of a schooner, or sailboat, docked at Chestnut Street Wharf on the Delaware River. Three men stand on the ship as one man crouches higher up on the main boom. Barrels line the dock in the foreground and firewood is stacked on the pier in the distance., Title from photographer's printed label on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Sallie M. Haas., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Bartlett, George O., photographer
Date
[ca. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett - Transportation [P.9107.10]
