Monitor Terror, Philadelphia.
Title
Monitor Terror, Philadelphia
Description
View showing the turret of the USS Terror, originally named the USS Agmenticus. Laid down in Portsmouth Navy Yard in Maine in 1862, launched in 1863, commissioned in 1864 at Portsmouth under the command of C. H. Cushman, decommissioned at the Boston Navy Yard in 1865, the monitor's name was changed to "Terror" in 1869. After being recommissioned in 1870, Terror came to the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1872. The facility, which built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships, operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Title on negative., Orange 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. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Military [P.9099.5]
Monitor Terror.
Title
Monitor Terror
Description
View showing the turret of the USS Terror, originally named the USS Agmenticus. Laid down in Portsmouth Navy Yard in Maine in 1862, launched in 1863, commissioned in 1864 at Portsmouth under the command of C. H. Cushman, decommissioned at the Boston Navy Yard in 1865, the monitor's name was changed to "Terror" in 1869. After being recommissioned in 1870, Terror came to the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1872. The facility, which built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships, operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Title printed on verso in publisher's series list with fifty-three other titles (No. 1-54)., Publisher's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1872]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - H. Ropes & Co. - Military [P.9099.3]
Chestnut St. Bridge, Philada. [graphic].
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]
[Naval Parade on the Delaware River during the Peace Jubilee] [graphic].
Title
[Naval Parade on the Delaware River during the Peace Jubilee]
Description
Photographs of ten views of the Naval Parade on the Delaware River during the Peace Jubilee on October 25, 1898. The ships depicted are the Tug Philadelphia; Japanese cruiser Kasagi; Texas; Topeka; Columbia; Mayflower; Marblehead; New Orleans; Gloucester; and the Transports Panther and Olivette. The Japanese cruiser Kasagi is depicted with two engine stacks, lines of nautical and national flags, and Japanese flags flying on the masts. Crew men are visible walking and standing on the deck and on the staircase on the side of the ship. Philadelphia honored the end of the Spanish-American War with the Peace Jubilee celebration from October 25-28, 1898. In addition to war ships, the naval procession included yachts, steamers, tugs, barges, and rowboats. The last warship in the line was the Kasagi, recently built at William Cramp & Sons’ shipyard in Philadelphia. Captain Kashiwabara, with the Japanese officers and crew, lined the deck in full dress., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note on verso., Gift of Ann L. Wood.
Creator
Butler, Walter L., photographer
Date
October 25, 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.2016.32.13-22]
[Peace Jubilee, Naval Day, Japanese cruiser Kasagi on the Delaware River.]
Title
[Peace Jubilee, Naval Day, Japanese cruiser Kasagi on the Delaware River]
Description
Photograph showing the Japanese cruiser Kasagi in the Naval Parade on the Delaware River during the Peace Jubilee on October 25, 1898. The cruiser has two engine stacks and American and Japanese flags fly on the masts. Buildings along the shore are visible in the left background. Philadelphia honored the end of the Spanish-American War with the Peace Jubilee celebration from October 25-28, 1898. In addition to war ships, the naval procession included yachts, steamers, tugs, barges, and rowboats. The last warship in the line was the Kasagi, recently built at William Cramp & Sons’ shipyard in Philadelphia. Captain Kashiwabara, with the Japanese officers and crew, lined the deck in full dress., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from date of event., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
October 25, 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.277]
[Peace Jubilee, Naval Day, Japanese cruiser Kasagi on the Delaware River] [graphic].
Title
[Peace Jubilee, Naval Day, Japanese cruiser Kasagi on the Delaware River]
Description
Photograph showing the Japanese cruiser Kasagi in the Naval Parade on the Delaware River during the Peace Jubilee on October 25, 1898. The cruiser has two engine stacks and American and Japanese flags fly on the masts. Buildings along the shore are visible in the left background. Philadelphia honored the end of the Spanish-American War with the Peace Jubilee celebration from October 25-28, 1898. In addition to war ships, the naval procession included yachts, steamers, tugs, barges, and rowboats. The last warship in the line was the Kasagi, recently built at William Cramp & Sons’ shipyard in Philadelphia. Captain Kashiwabara, with the Japanese officers and crew, lined the deck in full dress., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from date of event., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
October 25, 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.277]
[Peace Jubilee, Naval Day, Japanese cruiser Kasagi on the Delaware River.]
Title
[Peace Jubilee, Naval Day, Japanese cruiser Kasagi on the Delaware River]
Description
Photograph showing the Japanese cruiser Kasagi in the Naval Parade on the Delaware River during the Peace Jubilee on October 25, 1898. The cruiser has two engine stacks and a Japanese flag flies on a pole at the rear. Two row boats filled with men float close to the cruiser, and a steamship travels in the left. Philadelphia honored the end of the Spanish-American War with the Peace Jubilee celebration from October 25-28, 1898. In addition to war ships, the naval procession included yachts, steamers, tugs, barges, and rowboats. The last warship in the line was the Kasagi, recently built at William Cramp & Sons’ shipyard in Philadelphia. Captain Kashiwabara, with the Japanese officers and crew, lined the deck in full dress., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from date of event., 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.9453.278]
[Peace Jubilee, Naval Day, Japanese cruiser Kasagi on the Delaware River] [graphic].
Title
[Peace Jubilee, Naval Day, Japanese cruiser Kasagi on the Delaware River]
Description
Photograph showing the Japanese cruiser Kasagi in the Naval Parade on the Delaware River during the Peace Jubilee on October 25, 1898. The cruiser has two engine stacks and a Japanese flag flies on a pole at the rear. Two row boats filled with men float close to the cruiser, and a steamship travels in the left. Philadelphia honored the end of the Spanish-American War with the Peace Jubilee celebration from October 25-28, 1898. In addition to war ships, the naval procession included yachts, steamers, tugs, barges, and rowboats. The last warship in the line was the Kasagi, recently built at William Cramp & Sons’ shipyard in Philadelphia. Captain Kashiwabara, with the Japanese officers and crew, lined the deck in full dress., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from date of event., 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.9453.278]
Patterson & Lippincott, Poplar Street wharves
Title
Patterson & Lippincott, Poplar Street wharves Wholesale lumber dealers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Description
Trade advertisement depicting the lumber yard near the Delaware River operated by William H. Lippincott and Henry C. Patterson. Office employees and stevedores, including African Americans, pose among stacks of wood planks, near the business office, and on the docked ships. In the distance, the wharves of Camden, New Jersey are visible., Title printed on mount., Date inferred from content., Printed label on mount: Patterson & Lippincott, Lumber Commission Merchants, Poplar Street Wharves, Philadelphia, U.S.A., Purchase 2000., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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., Gutekunst, a prominent commercial photographer most known for his portraiture of eminent people, operated a studio in Philadelphia from 1856 until his death in 1917.
Creator
Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - Gutekunst [P.9767.1]
Delaware River, Philadelphia harbor.
Title
Delaware River, Philadelphia harbor
Description
Harbor scene showing steamships traveling the river. Includes a partial view of the sails of a ship in the foreground., 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., 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.11f]
Delaware River, Philadelphia harbor.
Title
Delaware River, Philadelphia harbor
Description
Harbor scene showing steamships traveling the river. Includes a partial view of the sails of a ship in the foreground., 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., 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.11f]
Ice scene on the Delaware, Philadelphia
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]
Ice scene on the Delaware, Philadelphia
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]
View on the Delaware, Philadelphia harbor.
Title
View on the Delaware, Philadelphia harbor
Description
Shows ships docked at piers with warehouse sheds near loading docks cluttered with crates and barrels., 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., 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.11n]
View on the Delaware, Philadelphia harbor.
Title
View on the Delaware, Philadelphia harbor
Description
Shows ships docked at piers with warehouse sheds near loading docks cluttered with crates and barrels., 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., 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.11n]
View on the Delaware, Philadelphia harbor.
Title
View on the Delaware, Philadelphia harbor
Description
Shows ships docked at piers with warehouse sheds holding lumber. Also shows men in rowboats in the distance., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Title printed on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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., 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.13a]
View on the Delaware, Philadelphia harbor.
Title
View on the Delaware, Philadelphia harbor
Description
Shows ships docked at piers with warehouse sheds holding lumber. Also shows men in rowboats in the distance., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Title printed on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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., 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.13a]
Ice scene on the Delaware, Philadelphia.
Title
Ice scene on the Delaware, Philadelphia
Description
Harbor scene during the winter showing ships docked at piers on the frozen river. Also shows people ice skating in the background., 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 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. 67., Arcadia caption text: Mother Nature suspended commercial and passenger activity on the Delaware River in this c. 1860 winter image. Bare-masted schooners and small boats are docked along the snow-covered piers of Philadelphia harbor in the foreground as people ice skate on the frozen river in the background. Ice skating was a common activity on the impenetrable river before the use of steam-powered icebreakers. Organizations such as the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society provided skating instruction and rescued people who broke through the ice., 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, photographer
Date
ca. 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Harbors [(8)1322.F.13d]
Ice scene on the Delaware, Philadelphia.
Title
Ice scene on the Delaware, Philadelphia
Description
Harbor scene during the winter showing ships docked at piers on the frozen river. Also shows people ice skating in the background., 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 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. 67., Arcadia caption text: Mother Nature suspended commercial and passenger activity on the Delaware River in this c. 1860 winter image. Bare-masted schooners and small boats are docked along the snow-covered piers of Philadelphia harbor in the foreground as people ice skate on the frozen river in the background. Ice skating was a common activity on the impenetrable river before the use of steam-powered icebreakers. Organizations such as the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society provided skating instruction and rescued people who broke through the ice., 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, photographer
Date
ca. 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Harbors [(8)1322.F.13d]