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Arch Street Ferry, Philadelphia – Vintage Wall Art

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 was one of the working crossings on the Delaware River waterfront, carrying travelers and goods between Philadelphia and the New Jersey shore. This hand-colored engraving is plate 4 in *The City of Philadelphia... as It Appeared in the Year 1800*, a series of views made by William Birch & Son, who issued their city scenes as engravings that were often colored by hand. The plate shows the wharves as a busy commercial edge of the port, where ferries, boats, and the people who depended on them gave the city much of its daily life at the turn of the nineteenth century.

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 scan1,536 × 1,200 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110001

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