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The St. John's at Jacksonville – Historic Print

The St. John's at Jacksonville, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
The St. John's at Jacksonville, [between 1880 and 1897]. Historic photograph from the Jacksonville collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The steamship Cherokee is the focus of this view of the St. Johns River at Jacksonville, where piers and wharves handled the passenger and freight traffic that made the city a busy river port in the late 1800s. This is a 5 by 7 inch glass negative dated between 1880 and 1897, and its attribution to photographer William Henry Jackson rests on an 1898 catalog of his views. Jackson is better known for his western survey photographs, but his interest in transportation and working waterfronts gives this scene a useful record of how steamboats shaped commerce along the river.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
NotesAttribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Negative taped to second sheet of glass. Cherokee
SubjectsCherokee (Steamship) Ships. Piers & wharves. Waterfronts.United States--Florida--Jacksonville.United States--Florida--Saint John's River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 636 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76300

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