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Photo, Print, Drawing Rowing on the Schuylkill River.

About this Item

Title

  • Rowing on the Schuylkill River.

Summary

  • This print shows two sculling barges on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. Each barge has a crew of eight and a coxswain. In the background are Peter's Island and the Columbia Railroad Bridge. A boat house is on the shore of the island and a train is seen exiting the covered bridge. The Columbia Railroad Bridge, one of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, was completed in 1834 after being commissioned by the state legislature for the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad. The bridge spanned the Schuylkill River below Belmont Mansion in Fairmount Park. This print was used as a sheet music cover for "Schuylkill Boat Song, Poetry by Thomas Dunn English M.D. Music composed and dedicated to the Atlantic Barge Club by P. Blanchor," which was published around 1842 by Osbourne's Music Saloon, located at 30 South Fourth Street in Philadelphia.

Names

  • Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847 Artist.

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : Sinclair Lithography, 1842.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
  • -  1842
  • -  Boathouses
  • -  Bridges
  • -  Cities and towns
  • -  Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • -  Railroad bridges
  • -  Railroad locomotives
  • -  Railroads
  • -  Rowing
  • -  Schuylkill River (Pennsylvania)

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Digital catalog number: POS 682"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph ; oval 30 x 23 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: The Library Company of Philadelphia.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Philadelphia on Stone

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670223

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 Or 16-1847 Artist. Rowing on the Schuylkill River. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1842. Philadelphia: Sinclair Lithography. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670223/.

APA citation style:

Weaver, M. S. (1842) Rowing on the Schuylkill River. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1842. Philadelphia: Sinclair Lithography. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670223/.

MLA citation style:

Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 Or 16-1847 Artist. Rowing on the Schuylkill River. Philadelphia: Sinclair Lithography. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670223/>.