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- Title
- [Sailing ship near an ocean coast]
- Description
- Green mount with rounded corners., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Transportation [5739.F.61a]
- Title
- Ice scene on the Delaware, Philadelphia
- Description
- Harbor scene showing a sailing ship with masts down and billowing smoke. Also shows nearby sailing vessels. View does not include ice., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry # 223., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
- Creator
- W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Harbors [(8)1322.F.13c]
- Title
- Ice scene on the Delaware, Philadelphia
- Description
- Harbor scene showing a sailing ship with masts down and billowing smoke. Also shows nearby sailing vessels. View does not include ice., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry # 223., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
- Creator
- W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Harbors [(8)1322.F.13c]
- Title
- Ice scene on the Delaware, Philadelphia
- Description
- Harbor scene showing a sailing ship with masts down and billowing smoke. Also shows nearby sailing vessels. View does not include ice., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry # 223., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
- Creator
- W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Harbors [(8)1322.F.13c]
- Title
- The Echo at Riverton, N.J
- Description
- Depicts a sailboat with the sail up on the Delaware River. Six passengers, including an African American man, sit within the boat. Trees are visible along the shoreline in the background., Green mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note on paper label on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Fred S. Wiese No. 33., Purchase 2002., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell [P.2002.4.3]
- Title
- The Echo at Riverton, N.J
- Description
- Depicts a sailboat on the Delaware River with a two-men crew. At the bow, a white man leans his right hand on the boom, which the sail is rolled around. Behind him, an African American man leans his right elbow on the boom and stands with his left hand on his hip. Trees along the shoreline are visual in the background., Green mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note on paper label on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Fred S. Wiese No. 34., Purchase 2002., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Views [P.2002.4.4]
- Title
- Chestnut St. Bridge, Philada
- Description
- Views showing the iron arch bridge built over the Schuylkill River between 1861-1866 after the designs of Strickland Kneass. Also shows a sailing ship with her masts down, a pier loaded with lumber, a reinforced ditch filled with water, and cityscape in the background. The bridge, partially funded and utilized by the Chestnut and Walnut Streets Passenger Railway Company, was demolished in 1958., Stereograph on yellow mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note on on mount., One of images 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
- Bartlett & Smith, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1867
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Bridges [(8)1322.F.11e; P.2004.22]

