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Arch Street Ferry, Philadelphia – Historic Photograph Print

Arch Street Ferry, Philadelphia, 1800 — antique engraving
Arch Street Ferry, Philadelphia, 1800. Antique engraving from the Philadelphia 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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This rare antique engraving captures Arch Street Ferry, Philadelphia in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Arch Street Ferry, Philadelphia

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The Arch Street Ferry sat at the foot of Arch Street on the Delaware River, one of several crossings linking Philadelphia's busy waterfront to the New Jersey shore. William Birch & Son published this hand-colored engraving as Plate 4 in their 1800 series of views of the city, which captured its streets, wharves, and riverfront as they looked at the turn of the century. Birch's engravings are prized today as a record of Philadelphia's appearance in the years when it was the young nation's capital and largest city. Notice the working boats and waterfront activity, which show how central the river was to the city's commerce.

Created / published1800
Medium1 print : engraving, hand-colored.
SubjectsHand-colored engraving by Wm. Birch & Son. Illus. in: The City of Philadelphia...as It Appeared in the Year 1800..., 1800. Plate 4. Ref. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Wharves; Pa.--Phila.; Artists, Publ. I.; RBD; Shelf(4).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,475 × 1,227 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176065

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