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Title: Old P.R.R. Station. foot of Market St., Phila. Just previous to widening Delaware Ave. 1898
Description: Depicts the front facade of the Market Street Ferry terminal at the foot of Market Street at Delaware Avenue. Carriages, trolleys, and pedestrians crowd the street 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., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: Negative 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.154]

Title: Philadelphia, from Camden, - 1850
Description: Panoramic view looking west from Camden showing the city to West Philadelphia. In the foreground, several bustling piers line the Camden riverfront. Sail ships and steamboats are docked, horse-drawn wagons are loaded and transport goods, and individuals mill on the piers and near the Market Street ferry house. Several vessels, including sail ships, tug boats, and steam boats sail in the river near both riverfronts and around Smith and Windmill islands. In the background, the cityscape of Philadelphia is visible. Includes the Navy Yard, Spark's Shot Tower, the steeples of Christ Church and Independence Hall, and Girard College. Also shows rows of buildings, smokestacks, undeveloped land, and the Schuylkill River in the distant background., Copyright by Francis Smith in Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 583, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., The Smith brothers, Benjamin, Francis, David and George, were premier and prolific artists and publishers of panoramic city views during the pre-Civil War era., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Views
Creator: Smith, Benjamin F., Jr., 1830-1927, artist
Date: c1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Views [P.8970.31]

Title: [Arch Street ferry, Philadelphia]
Description: View of the Arch Street ferry terminal on the Delaware River. Depicts Philadelphia's busy waterfront and includes sailing ships, warehouses, bartering merchants, and dock workers weighing, as well as loading, barrels and bundles of produce onto carts. Others, including white women, are fishing and enjoying the view. To the far left of an unoccupied dock, dock workers, including an African American man, move large bundles. At the turn of the nineteenth century ferries were the main source of transportation to Southern New Jersey. New Jersey provided much of the fresh produce sold at Philadelphia markets., Title from duplicate print., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 4., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1800
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 4a/P.2276.6]

Title: Arch Street ferry, Philadelphia
Description: View of the Arch Street ferry terminal on the Delaware River. Depicts Philadelphia's busy waterfront and includes sailing ships, warehouses, bartering merchants, and dock workers weighing, as well as loading, barrels and bundles of produce onto carts. Others, including white women, are fishing and looking out onto the river. To the far left of an unoccupied dock, dock workers, including an African American man, move large bundles. At the turn of the 19th century ferries were the main source of transportation to Southern New Jersey. New Jersey provided much of the fresh produce sold at Philadelphia markets., Inscribed: 1., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 4., Accessioned 1979., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, engraver
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 4c/P.2276.7]

Title: Market St. Ferry
Description: 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]

Title: Market St. Ferry
Description: 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, N.J. through the early 20th century., Title inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 429., Attributed to Philadelphia photographer Robert Newell., Published in the Philadelphia evening public ledger, January 1, 1922., Upper half of photograph discolored., Gift of William E. Conner, 2000., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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.9781.6]

Title: Market St. Ferry
Description: Busy Philadelphia street scene depicting the Pennsylvania Railroad 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, N.J. through the early 20th century., Title inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 429., Attributed to Philadelphia photographer Robert Newell., Published in the Philadelphia evening public ledger, January 1, 1922., Gift of William E. Conner, 2000., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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.9781.7]

Title: Market St. Ferry
Description: Busy Philadelphia street scene depicting the Pennsylvania Railroad 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, N.J. through the early 20th century., Title inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 429., Attributed to Philadelphia photographer Robert Newell., Published in the Philadelphia evening public ledger, January 1, 1922., Gift of William E. Conner, 2000., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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.9781.7]

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