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E2811 - View of graduation exercises of the Gray Ladies of the Red Cross held at the Trinity Methodist Church on 228 29th Street, Newport News, Va. 6-20-43 Official photograph U.S.Army Signal Corps, HRPE, Newport News, Va.
Overhead view of the graduation exercises of the Gray Ladies of the Red Cross in the Trinity United Methodist Church.
E2812 - View of graduation exercises of the Gray Ladies of the Red Cross held at the Trinity Methodist Church on 228 29th Street, Newport News, Va. 6-20-43 Official photograph U.S.Army Signal Corps, HRPE, Newport News, Va.
Overhead view of the graduation exercises of the Gray Ladies of the Red Cross in the Trinity United Methodist Church.
Dinners and dining–Virginia–Newport News.; Women–Virginia–Newport News.; International relief–Poland.; Humanitarian assistance, American–Poland.
Two women eating at a small table. There is a large pile of rolls of supplies stacked behind them. There is a crate to one side that has a label that reads "Miss Daisy Davers o/o Methodist Polish Relief Newport News VA. From Park St. Methodist Church Atlanta, GA". See also photo 0449.
E4408 - Bridal couple leaving the Grace Methodist Church Huntington Ave and 51st St. just after the ceremony. 9-18-43 Official photograph U.S.Army Signal Corps, HRPE, Newport News, Va.
Weddings–Virginia–Newport News.
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Pollard, Jr. on the front steps of Grace Methodist Church. There are men saluting them in lines on either side of the couple.
Dinners and dining–Virginia–Newport News.; Women–Virginia–Newport News.; International relief–Poland.; Humanitarian assistance, American–Poland.
Two women eating at a small table. There is a large pile of rolls of supplies stacked behind them. There is a crate to one side that has a label that reads "Miss Daisy Davers o/o Methodist Polish Relief Newport News VA. From Park St. Methodist Church Atlanta, GA". See also photo 0448.
AMERICA (STEAMSHIP: 1939-1941; 1946-1964; 1978) - 1947 - Steamship
USA; VIRGINIA; NEWPORT NEWS
WRITTEN ON LABEL: 27TH STREET AND WASHINGTON AVENUE, LOOKING NORTHWEST; MID FOREGROUND (LEFT TO RIGHT) MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING,TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH, NEWPORT NEWS HIGH SCHOOL, ARMORY, BACKGROUND (LEFT TO RIGHT) NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING, CRANES, AND NORTH SECTION OF THE CITY
27TH STREET AND WASHINGTON AVENUE, LOOKING NORTHWEST
E4407 - Interior view of the Grace Methodist Church Hunting Ave. and 51st Street, Newport News, Va. showing Lt. W. F. Pollard Jr. and his bride leaving the altar. 9-18-43 Official photograph U.S.Army Signal Corps, HRPE, Newport News, Va.
Weddings–Virginia–Newport News.
View looking down at Mr. and Mrs. William F. Pollard, Jr. leaving the altar at their wedding.
CLEVELAND - OHIO - UNITED STATES - Related Place; NEW YORK - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES - Publisher
SHORT DESCRIPTION: A view of Cleveland, Ohio from the promenade around the Kentucky Street Reservoir. There are men, women, and children on the promenade, and one young boy has a hoop and stick toy while his mother is looking through binoculars. In the distance is the city, with several churches and many homes. Lake Erie is in the background, dotted with sailing ships. NOTES: From “Picturesque America, or The Land We Live In” volume 1, published in New York by D. Appleton and Co. publishers, 1872. The print is before page 529. NOTES: From the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, the Kentucky Street Reservoir was the first reservoir and central pumping station for the city. It opened in 1856, and was a feature at the state fair where it provided fresh drinking water to the fountains. The reservoir was 35 feet above street level, held 6 million gallons of water, and was six acres in size. By the early 1880s the city had outgrown the reservoir’s capacity, and it eventually became Reservoir Park in 1890, then Fairview Park in 1897. The church prominently featured in the print is the Franklin Boulevard Methodist Church, built between 1867 and its dedication in 1870. Fire destroyed the church in 1947, so the congregation merged with St. Paul’s German Methodist Episcopal Church to form the Wesley Methodist Church. The other two steeples belong to a Baptist church and the First Congregational Church.
"Dedicated to the United States Navy, officers and seamen of American merchantmen, and all true-blues of every nation under heaven, whether coursing on the high seas, lakes and rivers of this planet, or laid up in ord'nary" T.p.
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Poster showing two men in uniform walking along campus carrying school books. Text at right states "The War Department Asks Men Over 18 To Attend College As A Form Of Military Service" which is followed by a list of Methodist colleges enrolling men. NOTES: Printed by Latham Litho & Printing Co. Brooklyn for Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Early GI bill type program known as the Students Army Training Corps. NOTES: Artist Maud Fuller Petersham was born in Kingston, New York in 1890, the daughter of a Baptist minister and Quaker grandparents. She graduated from Vassar College in 1912 and then attended the NY School of Fine and Applied Arts. Her first job was with the International Art Service and there she met a young commercial artist from Hungary, Petrezselyem Mihaly. At first he was Maud's tutor, but eventually they married in 1917 and began creating children's literature. Many of their books were bible based and their writings included stores about Miska as a young child in Hungary, early U.S. history and nursery rhymes. Because his name was so difficult to pronounce, Mihaly changed his name to Miska Fuller Petersham after the couple married. He was born in Hungary in 1888, arrived at Ellis Island in 1912, and he was called up for military service during WWII, enlisting on 6 August, 1942. Miska was still in the military in 1954 according to a WWII hospital admission card from that year. The couple worked as a team, authoring their books and signing artwork as M.M. Petersham.
Copy negative of half of a sterogram of the side-wheel steamer Frances docked at the pier. Original stereogram says on the back: "Camp Meeting Landing from Sea View House, Oak Bluffs, MA" The landing itself is on Martha's Vinyard at the Weslyan Grove Methodist campground.
Copy negative of half of a sterogram of the steamer Frances docked at the pier. Original stereogram says on the back "Camp Meeting Landing from Sea View House, Oak Bluffs, MA" The landing itself is on Martha's Vinyard at the Weslyan Grove Methodist campground.
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Adze made of forged steel curved in at base with wood handle (unvarnished). Used to shape large or small timbers. NOTES: Adzes were of several types used for specialized tasks in shaping lumber for hulls. Reportedly used by Joshua Thomas "Parson of the Islands", of Chesapeake Bay fame, when building a log canoe, the Methodist. There is no proof of this, however. A Chas. A. Strelinger & Company (1896) catalog describes this object as a "ship carpenter's adze, with lips"
"Being the personal recollections and observations of fifty years service in the itinerancy, with pen portraits of leaders and places and times." Bottom of t.p.
BOSTON - MASSACHUSETTS - UNITED STATES - Publisher; PROVINCETOWN - MASSACHUSETTS - UNITED STATES - Related Place
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Colored lithograph titled "Provincetown from Long Point" by an unknown artist, but based upon photographs by George H. Nickerson and published by F. Kimball Rogers in Boston, Massaschusetts. The image shows Provicetown from across the water. The bay is filled with sailing vessels and one steamboat. In the foreground at the bottom left, two men haul a small rowing boat into the water from a sandy shoreline. There are six references in the lower margin documenting churches (Centernary Chuch, University Church, Orthodox Church, Centre Methodist Church), the town hall and the central school. NOTES: Gloria Deak in Picturing American, 1497-1899 discusses the history of Provincetown and describes this image on page 579 of Volume 1 (item 852): The anonymous artist of the lithograph has appropriately given us a seascape, rather than an aerial prospect of Provincetown. We view the town in a north-northeasterly direction from across the water. Cargo ships, steamships, and fishermen's boats mingle on the luminous, active waves, but in this rather crude lithographic rendering-based on photographs taken by George H. Nickerson-the vessels are out of scale in relation to one another. The references identify conspicuous landmarks of the town in the year 1877. The most prominent, in the center, is the Town Hall, which is still standing. The steeple to the left of it is the University Church; further left is the Centennary Church. In line with the bowsprit of the clipper ship at the right is the Center Methodist Church. F.K. Rogers, who copyrighted the lithograph in 1877, may be the artist. Impressions of the print are owned by the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, and the Library of Congress (one impression is in the Geography and Map Division, another in the Prints and Photographs Division) [J. Willoz-Egnor, 3/11/2024: online I found the image at the Niday Picture Library (doesn't say who holds the original image), The Old Print Shop and the New York Public Library.
The parson of the islands : - a biography of the late Rev. Joshua Thomas : with sketches of many of his contemporaries and an account of the origin of Methodism on the islands of the Chesapeake and Eastern shores of Maryland and Virginia - by Adam Wallace ; with an introduction by Rev. James A. Massey
CINCINNATI - OHIO - UNITED STATES - Publisher; NEWBURGH - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES - Related Place
SHORT DESCRIPTION: The print shows a shipyard on the Hudson River, just south of Newburgh. (The print spells the town as Newburg, which is incorrect) The ground and buildings are covered in snow, and there are horses pulling sleighs filled with barrels and people. There are people ice skating, and one person on a sled. A boat with a single mast is on the shore. NOTES: The print is from “The Ladies’ Repository: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted To Literature and Religion,” published in Cincinnati by the Methodist Episcopal Church in February 1854. The print appears in volume 14, and the text is on page 95. The printer is Elijah C. Middleton. TEXT: “From the old shipyard just below Newburg [sic] we have a view of the Hudson river sheathed in ice and snow, and trace its course down to where it enters by a comparatively and winding channel among the mountains, which seem to have been parted by some might convulsion to make a way for it. On either side they rise in bold and, in some instances, frightful precipices from the water’s edge, forming one of the characteristic features of the world-renowned scenery of the Hudson.”
Catalog of an exhibition held December 13, 2013 to April 19, 2014 at the Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University; May 30 to August 26, 2014 at the San Diego Museum of Art; and September 23, 2014 to January 11, 2015 at FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE in Madrid. Includes image from The Mariners' Museum.
BUFFALO - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES - Related Place; NEW YORK - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES - Publisher
NOTES: This engraving was copied from the original engraving published in The Old Print Shop, "Portfolio", 1815. SHORT DESCRIPTION: This print shows Buffalo, New York from the steeple of Westminster Presbyterian Church and looking out toward Lake Erie. In the foreground the roof at the bottom of the print belongs to the home of Valorous Hodge. Just above that is the Aaron Rumsey House, and the wooded area above that is the North Street Cemetery. To the right of the cemetery is the armory. The tree lined street is Delaware Street (changed to Avenue in 1879), which is filled with people walking and horses pulling carriages. On the left side of the print the first house belonged to the Fryer family and the second to the Ganson family. There is a small street (North Street), and the next house belonged to the Stevenson family, and the columned house is the Wilcox Mansion (now the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site). Beyond the Wilcox Mansion is the Cornell White Lead Company factory, and the church is the Delaware Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. In the distance near Lake Erie are the grain elevators, and the Buffalo Lighthouse is visible as well. NOTES: From “Picturesque America, or The Land We Live In” volume 1, published in New York by D. Appleton and Co. publishers, 1872. The print is before page 521. NOTES: The Wilcox Mansion at 641 Delaware Avenue was first an army barracks from 1838 until 1846. At the time of this publication was owned by attorney Albert P. Laning, who purchased the home in 1863 and owned it until his death in 1880. The Wilcox name for the home comes from the 1883 purchase of the home by Dexter Rumsey, who gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter. Mary Grace Rumsey married attorney Ansley Wilcox, and the two of them lived there until the 1930s. In 1901 Theodore Roosevelt’s inauguration took place in the building following the assassination of William McKinley. The home is now a restored museum. The Aaron Rumsey Mansion was built in 1856. Aaron and his wife, Sophia, lived there with their two sons, Bronson and Dexter (see the Wilcox Mansion info for Dexter). Mr. and Mrs. Rumsey died in 1864 and 1870, respectively, and the house was eventually torn down. Between 1896 and 1899 George Williams built a new house, but left the city in 1905. That’s when Edward H. Butler purchased the home and lived there for 69 years. It changed hands a few times, and was eventually donated to the University of Buffalo. The Westminster Presbyterian Church was founded in 1847, and the church was built between 1858 and 1859.
CINCINNATI - OHIO - UNITED STATES - Publisher; NEW ORLEANS - LOUISIANA - UNITED STATES - Related Place
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Black and white lithograph titled "New Orleans, Taken from the Lower Cotton Press 1852." Based on a drawing by John William Hill and engraved by William Wellstood. Published in The Ladies' Repository: A Monthy Periodical, devoted to literature, arts, and religion", Volume 14, Issue 2, February 1854, page 96A. The image shows a panoramic view of New Orleans and the Mississippi river from the Lower Cotton Press in lower Marigny looking towards the French Quarter (Vieux Carré) and much of the city's urban areas. In the foreground are numerous sailing ships, steamers (only one is named - De Soto) and other vessels and the city's landmarks, stretching out on both sides of the river. The curve of the river at Algiers is also shown. NOTES: A steel engraving from The Ladies' Repository, a mid-nineteenth century periodical produced in Cincinnati by members of the Methodist Church. It was a magazine "Devoted To Literature and Religion," containing articles, poetry, fiction, and notes of interest to its readers. One of its most interesting aspects was the inclusion of steel engravings. Many had a religious or "genre" theme, but others were topographical views of different parts of the United States. This magazine had a limited circulation and so these prints are quite a bit more scarce than most steel engravings of the period. Some of the views are based on images by W.H. Bartlett, but others are taken either from some of the large folio views of the period or are drawn first hand for The Ladies' Repository. Whatever their source, these are among the most interesting and hard-to-find American views of the middle of last century. This view is based on a large view issued by the Smith Brothers of New York City.
Wedding ceremony of Lt. Wayne Allred, C.E., O-1945122, home, Kersey, Colo., to Miss Virginia Belle Forbes, Norfolk, Va., at the Epworth Methodist Church, Norfolk, Va. Photo taken for press and publicity purposes.
Military weddings–Virginia–Norfolk.; Army spouses–Virginia–Norfolk.
Shows the wedding ceremony on progress. It appears that the groom is placing the ring on his bride's finger.
313 WASHINGTON STREET - BOSTON - MASSACHUSETTS - UNITED STATES - Lithographer; VINEYARD HAVEN - MASSACHUSETTS - UNITED STATES - Related Place
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Hand-colored lithograph titled "View of the Village of Holmes' Hole, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., 1856." The artist was William H. Sturtevant and the image was lithographed and published by John Henry Bufford. The view shows the town in 1856, as seen by the artist from the sandspit to the east that still separates the harbor from Lagoon Pond. The image shows the arrival of the steamboat Massachusetts, a couple riding horses along the beach in the foreground, and people waiting on the wharf across the harbor. The Methodist Church (which burned in 1922) is visible on a high point at the center of the view. NOTES: The steamboat is probably the Massachusetts. A lithograph of a scene by George F. Danforth shows a nearly identical steamboat in the harbor identified as the Massachusetts. Vineyard Haven, known until 1871 as Holmes' Hole (Tisbury), was a fishing and shipbuilding village, and a primary harbor for boats traveling the coast between New York and Boston. According to Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps this view is rare with the only known examples in OCLC found at the American Antiquarian Society, the Boston Athenaeum and in their stock. Another was available at Boston Rare Maps. Our image is hand-colored.
Lt. Dewey Aesel, O-2048011, Johnstown, Pa., kisses the bride, Miss Virginia Belle Forbes, Norfolk, Va., as the groom, Lt. Wayne Allred, C.E., O-1945122, Kersey, Colo., looks on. Photo taken during the reception held in the reception hall of the Epworth Methodist Church, Norfolk, Va., after the wedding ceremony. Photo taken for press and publicity purposes.
Military weddings–Virginia–Norfolk.; Army spouses–Virginia–Norfolk.
Shows the bride kissing a member of the wedding party.
NEW JERSEY; RELATED PLACE: NEW JERSEY, JERSEY CITY
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Showing New York harbor ferry boat, COLDEN, 577 tons, built at Brooklyn in 1851. Also showing steam ferry HUDSON, 528 tons, built at Brooklyn in 1849. CURATORS NOTES: Reps, John William. Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: lithographs of towns and cities in the United States and Canada, notes on the artists and publishers, and a union catalog of their work: 1825-1925. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984, p. 395, catalog 2349. Deak, Gloria Gilda. Picturing America, 1497-1899. Prints, Maps and Drawings Bearing on The New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is Now the United States. From the I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection and Other Collections In the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Other Photographs of the New York Public Library. Volume I & II. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988, p. 468-469, catalog 552-553, catalog 814. Stokes, I.N. Phelps and Daniel C. Haskell. American Historical Prints: early views of American Cities, etc. from the Phelps Stokes and other collections. New York: New York Public Library, 1933, p. 130.
26 IVY LANE - LONDON - ENGLAND - Related Place; ST. JOHN RIVER, FREDERICTON - NEW BRUNSWICK - CANADA - Related Place
SHORT DESCRIPTION: The image depicts the town of Fredericton in New Brunswick. The main part of the town of Fredericton is situated in the background across from the St. John’s River. On the river there are several ships. On the road headed down towards the river there are 2 people off to the side of the road, while a horse-drawn cart is farther down the road. The churches in the town are unknown due in part to a large fire in November 1850 that destroyed 300 buildings including 156 homes, 18 acres, and four city blocks (from the Fredericton Firefighters website). One destroyed building was the Methodist Church on Carleton Street that existed by 1840. One of the buildings may be the Government House, built between 1826 and 1828. The building on the hill is possibly King's College, now Sir Howard Douglas Hall of the University of New Brunswick, built in 1827. The third story was added between 1876 and 1877, which altered the roofline. NOTES: Image is from after page 102 of volume 2 of “Canadian Scenery,” written by Nathaniel Parker Willis and published by George Virtue in 1842.
59 BEEKMAN STREET - NEW YORK - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES - Publisher; NEW YORK - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES - Printer; SALEM - MASSACHUSETTS - UNITED STATES - Related Place
NOTES: Gloria Deak describes this image on page 458-459 of the book "Picturing America, 1497-1899": In the lithograph of Salem drawn by the artist John William Hill we note the "flat unvaried surface" of the town "covered chiefly with wooden houses." The street running across the foreground is Harbor Street, and the one at right angles to it is Lafayette Street. The building at the right corner of the two streets is the Lafayette (First) Methodist Episcopal Church, erected in 1852-1853 and remodeled in 1893-1894. The spire in the far left background is the South Congregational Church, erected in 1804-1805. The building with the two square towers, near the water in the left center, is the Eastern (later the Boston and Maine) Railway Depot, erected in 1847, badly damaged by fire in 1882, and later reconstructed along the original lines. The tower and cupola behind and to the right of it belong to the First Baptist Church, erected in 1805-1806. Still further to the right is the tower of the Tabernacle (Congregational) Church, erected after 1774 and taken down in 1854. The crowding of the buildings and their proximity to the busy harbor bespeak a town that is prosperous, if neither "picturesque nor quaint." Hill's view of Salem was put on the stone by the able lithographer John Henry Colen (his name is misspelled on the print), who had collaborated on Hill's Buffalo view. The Salem view was printed in colors by the firm of Endicott and Company, which had entered the chromolithography business with modest sheet-music covers issued in the late 1840s. As more expertise was acquired, the firm trained numerous apprentices in its thriving printmaking shop on Beekman Street.
Lt. Edward C. Tosterson, CWS, ASN O-1535981, home, Nicollet, Minn., and Miss Alma Louise Clark, PTO, home, Richmond, Va., being married at the Hilton Methodist Church, Hilton, Va. Photo taken for press and publicity purposes.
Military weddings–Virginia–Newport News.; Army spouses–Virginia–Newport News.
Overall view of a wedding ceremony. The bride and groom are holding hands as they stand before their minister, the audience can be seen seated in the background.
Bride, Miss Virginia Belle Forbes, Norfolk, Va. and groom, Lt. Wayne Allred, O-1945122, Kersey City, Colo., cut their wedding cake at the reception, held in the reception hall, Epworth Methodist Church, Norfolk, Va. Photo taken for press and publicity purposes.
Wedding cakes–Virginia–Norfolk.; Military weddings–Virginia–Norfolk.; Army spouses–Virginia–Norfolk.
The bride and groom pose next to their cake. There are tall taper candles on the table.
Bride, Miss Virginia Belle Forbes, Norfolk, Va. and groom, Lt. Wayne Allred, O-1945122, Kersey City, Colo., and their friends at the reception held in the reception hall of the Epworth Methodist Church, Norfolk, Va., after the wedding ceremony. Photo taken for press and publicity purposes.
Wedding cakes–Virginia–Norfolk.; Military weddings–Virginia–Norfolk.; Army spouses–Virginia–Norfolk.
Shows the wedding party gathered around the wedding cake for a group portrait. There are nine individuals present.
WISCONSIN, MILWAUKEE; RELATED PLACE: MAINE, RICHMOND
ASSISTANT CURATOR'S NOTES: Reps, John William. Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: lithographs of towns and cities in the United States and Canada, notes on the artists and publishers, and a union catalog of their work: 1825-1925. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984, P. 318, catalog 1241
Lifeboats–Design and construction.; Lifesaving–Equipment and supplies.
Lifeboats come in two major classes: ship stationed craft designed for emergency escape and land based ships designed for sea rescues. This collection deals with the latter. In 1857 Matthias Ludlum, who was residing in Fairhaven, Rutland County, Vermont at the time, was granted two patents for an "improved lifeboat design." He displayed a model similar to his new lifeboat in Crystal Palace, New York at an exhibition held by the American Institute of the City of New York. Thomas Carter served as his agent. The model was awarded a gold medal for best model of a lifeboat. He printed some advertisements as well as a descriptive pamphlet to describe the possible purposes of the new boat. Ludlum's design was unique for many reasons. Most notably it was a self-righting vessel; these were relatively new and were becoming the most popular. The propulsion was a hand-powered crank wheel in the center of the boat. There were also two adjustable outriggers. Ludlum's design did not become popular nor was it mass produced. There are few references to either him or his lifeboat design. This collection consists of a variety of papers from 1857-1866 relating to a new lifeboat design by Matthias Ludlum. There are three patents, one which is incredibly descriptive about Ludlum's new design. There is also a correspondence between Ludlum and a Thomas Carter about patent rights.
SHORT DESCRIPTION: The quilt consist of thirty blocks separated by roller printed sashing in red and an outer border of roller printed fabrics with red floral bouquets. Hand quilted in diagonal lines between the appliqué ornaments with stitches spaced 5/8 inches apart. Of the thirty blocks, twenty-six are floral designs, each appliquéd in predominant colors of red and green, with occasional scattered yellows and blues. The remaining four blocks, all at the center, comprise the focal point of this quilt. The first consists of a three-masted schooner identified as the ANDELUSIA, and is inscribed by the maker "M.A. CROFSIN". the second consists of a full length portrait of Peter Jason in seaman's clothes holding a document inscribed "Come Sign the Pledge." The third depicts a dove holding a bible in its beak and is inscribed by the maker "CLARISSA COOK." and the fourth depicts an elaborate vase of flowers. NOTES: This quilt showing the ANDELUSIA is an unusual maritime example of an album quilt. It has connections with the Seamen's Bethel in Centerville, Maryland and the religious conversion of sailor Peter Jason who sailed on the ANDELUSIA. This quilt has five, and possibly six, squares attributable to MARY EVANS. These squares #9 (ship); #10 (sailor); #14 (bouquet); #15 (dove and horseshoe wreath); #17 (cornucopia); and possibly #16 (vase of flowers). NOTES: The history of this quilt was written circa 1940 by Myra White Slaughter, great granddaughter of Reverend Joshua Young: This quilt was presented to Joshua Young in 1840, in appreciation of his efforts in establishing a Seaman's Bethel in Centerville, Maryland. The wives and sweethearts of the seamen each made a square and contributed toward the making of the quilt. The quilt was quilted by an elderly lady 85 years old. A seaman by the name of Peter Jason, who did not believe in God, went to sea and before he sailed Mr. Young put a bible in his chest. While at sea he was taken very ill, and he began to read his bible. When he returned to Centerville, Maryland, he joined the church and began to study for the ministry and was admitted to the Baltimore Methodist Conference. The square with the ship represents the ship Peter Jason sailed on [Andelusia]. The dove with the Bible represents the Bible put in his seachest. The sailor boy represents Peter Jason. On his square, he wrote in his own handwriting: REMEMBRANCE The time may pass and years may fly And every hope decay and die. And every joyful moment set Yet thee I never can forget Tho distant yet Thou still my heart From love and The Will never part I'll bless the day That first we met Yet never thee I will forget Peter Jason Baltimore, Maryland 1840.
Steamboats–Maryland.; Excursion boats.; Piano and theater organ music–Washington (D.C.).
This collection contains one item, a videotape of the steamboat Potomac under way, in 1947. The video was made from an original 16mm color film, made by Bedford F. Penn, for the meeting of the Steamship Historical Society of America. The film includes images of the boat underway, the walking beam and valve lifters in action, a stop / start sequence, the pilot house and deck views. Added to the original silent 16mm film is a mujsical accompaniment composed and performed on a Wurlitzer theater organ by Raymond A. Brumbacher, then organist at the Kennedy Center, in 1988. - SS Potomac, of the Potomac River Line, offered excursion service from 1935 to 1948 during the day to Chapel Point Park (MD), an amusement park at the confluence of the Port Tobacco and Potomac Rivers, and to the various attractions at Colonial Beach, VA. At night, Potomac sailed on moonlight excursion cruises on the Potomac.
NEW YORK, TROY; WISCONSIN, MILWAUKEE; RELATED PLACE: HUDSON RIVER
SHORT DESCRIPTION: An interesting cable ferry shows in this print. CURATORS NOTES: Reps, John William. Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: lithographs of towns and cities in the United States and Canada, notes on the artists and publishers, and a union catalog of their work: 1825-1925. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984, P. 413, catalog 2602.
Two Chaplains (RCAF) who had returned with troops from overseas service on the USS MOUNT VERNON, before debarkation at HRPE. Left to right: Squadron Leader A.T. Littlewood, Senior Chaplain, Scotland and Northern Ireland, C-4684, RCAF, home: 12 Waldorf Apartment 1255 King Street, West, Ontario, Canada, Minister, United Church of Canada (formerly a Presbyterian minister.) He served in the First World War with General Allenby during the Jerusalem campaign in 1917. In the Second World War, he was Chaplain of the 431st and 434th Squadrons, Bomber Command, is of Welsh ancestry, and was born in Cardiff, Wales. Right: Squadron Leader E. Harston, Senior Chaplain, Middle East, C-1812, RCAF, home: Toronto, Canada, who studied at Victoria College and Toronto University. he was Pastor of a Methodist Church before entering the United Church of Canada. Before the war he was pastor of Ballfair United Church, Toronto, Canada. He was overseas three years and nine months. He served in the First World War, entering as a Private in the Canadian Army (Infantry), He thought the war would finish in Europe after a month or six weeks and in the Orient after one and one-half years. Photo taken at Pier 6, HRPE, for Historical records.
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Colored aquatint showing "A View of the City and Harbour of St. John, New Brunswick, N.A. taken form the Hills W.S.W. of Fort Howe" by Ralph Stennett. Engraved by Charles Turner. There are six listings identifying places in the town at the lower left. Rather than using numbers above the buildings the engraver has used birds (from one to six) to identify the fort, poor house and several churches. In the foreground is a Maliseet family. The man and woman are in traditional dress and the child is hold a small bow and arrow. NOTES: According to the article "The Role of Colonial Artists in the Dispossession and Displacement of the Maliseet, 1790s-1850s" by Andrea Bear Nicholas, Stennett originally painted this scene in 1815.
CURATORS NOTES: Reps, John William. Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: lithographs of towns and cities in the United States and Canada, notes on the artists and publishers, and a union catalog of their work: 1825-1925. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984, P. 517, catalog 4078.
CINCINNATI - OHIO - UNITED STATES - Publisher; PHILADELPHIA - PENNSYLVANIA - UNITED STATES - Related Place
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Hand-colored steel engraving showing Philadelphia looking across the Delaware River from Camden, New Jersey in 1850. The print shows a panoramic view of the city from Camden. In the foreground piers line the Camden riverfront. Schooners and steamboats are docked, horse-drawn wagons are loaded and transport goods, and individuals stand on the piers and near the Market Street ferry house. Many vessels, both sail and steam can bee seen in the river near both river fronts and around Smith and Windmill islands. In the background, the city of Philadelphia is visible, including the Navy Yard, Spark’s Shot Tower, the steeples of Christ Church and Independence Hall, and Girard College. Also shown are rows of buildings, smokestacks, undeveloped land, and the Schuylkill River in the distant background. The image was originally drawn by John William Hill and Benjamin Franklin Smith, Jr. and published by Smith Brothers & Company in 1855. This small steel engraving was created by William Wellstood for the September 1855 edition of "The Ladies' Repository" a monthly periodical published in Cincinnati. NOTES: From The Ladies’ Repository: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted To Literature and Religion. Cincinnati: September, 1855. Published in Cincinnati by L. Swordstedt and A. Poe. Published in New York by T. Carton and Z. Phillips. R. P. Thompson, Printer. Text from page 574: Philadelphia.—Mr. Wellstood has succeeded remarkably well in his engraving of the city of Brotherly Love, so far as excellence and clearness of finish are concerned. Philadelphia, which is situated between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, was settled by the Swedes in the year 1627. The city proper is situated on a plain, the highest point of which is sixty-four feet above the ordinary high-water mark of the river. In form it is a parallelogram, two miles long by one wide. The view in our engraving is from the city of Camden, on the east shore of the Delaware river, where terminate the Camden & Amboy and the New Jersey railroads. Ferry-boats, several of which may be observed, ply constantly between Philadelphia and Camden City, the Delaware being here about one mile wide, and of sufficient depth for the largest vessels. Among the public buildings of Philadelphia may be named Independence Hall, from whose steps, July 4, 1776, the Declaration of the Independence of the United States, by order of the Colonial Congress there assembled, was first read. The Custom-House on Chesnut-street, formerly the United States Bank, built in imitation of the Parthenon at Athens, at a cost of $500,000, is one of the finest specimens of Doric architecture of modern times. Girard College, founded by Stephen Girard, with a bequest of $2,000,000, for the gratuitous instruction and support of destitute orphans, is in the district of Penn, one mile north of the north boundary of the city proper. The corner-stone of the college edifice was laid on July 4, 1833, and the buildings were completed in 1847. The institution, however, did not go into operation till January 1, 1848. The grounds contain forty-one acres, and are inclosed by a wall ten feet high. The total cost of the college buildings and the improvements was $1,933,821. The United States Military and Naval establishments, the University of Pennsylvania, the American Philosophical Society and its building, the Pennsylvania Hospital, the Fairmount Water-Works, the American Sunday School Union buildings, etc., are institutions giving character to Philadelphia, and too well known to render description necessary here. NOTES: The Ladies’ Repository was a mid-nineteenth century periodical produced in Cincinnati by members of the Methodist Church. It was a magazine “Devoted To Literature and Religion,” containing articles, poetry, fiction, and notes of interest to its readers. One of its most interesting aspects was the inclusion of steel engravings. Many had a religious or “genre” theme, but others were topographical views of different parts of the United States. The magazine had a limited circulation so these prints are quite a bit more scarce than most steel engravings of the period. The view of Philadelphia was based on a large view (28 x 43) issued by the Smith Brothers & Company of New York in 1850.
CURATORS NOTES: This is one of Whitefield's Views of North American Cities #26. See Stokes, I.N. Phelps and Daniel C. Haskell. American Historical Prints: early views of American Cities, etc. from the Phelps Stokes and other collections. New York: New York Public Library, 1933, P. 1851-H-30. Deak, Gloria Gilda. Picturing America, 1497-1899. Prints, Maps and Drawings Bearing on The New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is Now the United States. From the I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection and Other Collections In the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Other Photographs of the New York Public Library. Volume I & II. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988, p.426-427, catalog 631. Reps, John William. Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: lithographs of towns and cities in the United States and Canada, notes on the artists and publishers, and a union catalog of their work: 1825-1925. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984, p. 499, catalog 3817.
SAN FRANCISCO - CALIFORNIA - UNITED STATES - Lithographer; CORONADO BEACH - SAN DIEGO - CALIFORNIA - UNITED STATES - Related Place
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Black and white birdseye view of San Diego Bay with Coronado in the foreground and the city of San Diego on the far side of the bay. Drawn by E. S. Moore and lithographed by Crocker & Co. in San Francisco. The view extends from Coronado Beach to the City of San Diego and Old Town San Diego, with local mountains in the background. The Hotel Del Coronado is prominently visible in the lower right corner. The two major San Diego Piers are prominently depicted. The modern town plan of San Diego, as laid out by Alonzo Horton, can be seen across the bay. At the bottom left is a key identifying twenty-two locations within Coronado. At the bottom right is a list of the officers and directors of the Coronado Beach Company. NOTES: This view was produced during the development period for the Hotel Del Coronado. circa 1886. The view was unquestionably commissioned by the Coronado Beach Company, the first developers of Coronado. The idea for the development of the island began in 1884, when Elisha S. Babcock conceived of the idea of the Hotel Del Coronado. Babcock and his colleague H.L. Story developed and idea to purchase the island, subdivide it, sell lots and use the profits to build the hotel. In November 1885, Babcock and Story purchased the land for $110,000. After working a year to prepare the island, the first land sale auction proceeded on November 13, 1886. The first lot sold for $1,600 to Major Levi Chase. Land sales proceeded well over the next several months, allowing the Coronado Beach Company to break ground on the hotel in March 1887. Construction was completed and the hotel opened in February 1888. Unfortunately, by 1888 Babock had fallen on hard time. He borrowed money from sugar magnate John D. Spreckels to attempt to save the venture, but was later forced to sell out to Spreckels, who would shepherd the development and growth of the hotel and the island for the next half century. NOTES: E.S. Moore was one of the most active Southern California view makers.
NEW YORK - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES - Publisher; FALL RIVER - MASSACHUSETTS - UNITED STATES - Related Place
NOTES: Information about print by Gloria Deak, Picturing America, item 638: The Indians called Fall River "Quequechan," meaning "falling water." The town is situated at the mouth of the Taunton River, about fifty miles south of Boston, on an abrupt elevation of land. The first settlement had its origins in the expansion of Plymouth Colony around 1656, when the General Court of Plymouth granted a tract of land to a number of freemen of the jurisdiction. The grant was subsequently confirmed by a warranty deed signed by the local sachems, who, in turn, were given "twenty coats, two rugs, two iron pots, two kettles and one little kettle, eight pairs of shoes, six pairs of stockings, one dozen hoes, one dozen hatchets, two yards of broadcloth and a debt satisfied to John Barnes, which was due from Wamsitta to John Barnes." One of the earliest seventeenth-century settlers was John Borden, whose family name figures prominently throughout Fall River history. The town's growth was slow until the nineteenth century, when Fall River's natural advantages-water power, a mild, moist climate, and a good harbor-trans-formed it into a booming textile center. The water power came from the Quequechan River, which, with its nine sets of falls, ran down to the Taunton River. Cotton mills proliferated, and by 1876 Fall River could boast that it had 1,269,048 spindles - over one-eighth of all the spindles in the United States - and 30,144 looms operating in forty mills. In 1917 the count would be 4,000,000 whirling spindles. Benjamin Franklin Smith's large, tinted lithograph shows us a highly industrialized town, which we view from across the Taunton. In the foreground is Somerset. Scanning right from the open farm spaces at the left, we come into a heavy concentration of buildings, where elegant churches and large residences mingle with solidly built factories. Six of the churches make themselves easily identifiable by poking their towers or spires above the skyline. From left to right they are: the First Baptist Church; the Old Stone Church (First Congregational); the Central Congregational Church; the First Methodist Church; the Unitarian Society; and the Baptist Temple. The First Baptist Church (with the solid square tower) and the Baptist Temple (on the hill just to the left of the two factory smokestacks) are still standing. Between the third and fourth churches, the large horizontal building with a tower is the Pocasset Mill. The busy shipping of the Taunton River includes rigged vessels and steam packets, and the names of two of the latter can be made out: the Bradford Durfee and the Empire State. The Bradford Durfee had a square engine and was put into service in 1845. She was named after Major Bradford Durfee, one of Fall River's most active businessmen. "He was one of the original eight owners of the Fall River Iron Works Co., formed in 1821, and was conspicuously active in the improvement of what is known as 'below the hill.' In building operations, in the construction of wharves, in the getting out of stone, in de-vising means to accomplish certain ends, in readiness of comprehension and clearness in imparting ideas, in all the various ways in which one man gains and retains an influence over others, perhaps Major Durfee has never had a superior in the city" (Henry H. Earl, A Centennial History of Fall River, p. 27). Another important figure is Colonel Richard Borden, who was also connected with the Fall River Iron Works and who, with his brother Jefferson, ran the American Print works. (The buildings of these establishments can be seen in the lithograph sending up smoke from the shore of the Taunton.) Because they wanted to ship their goods to New York, they built a line of steamers; the Empire State was their second packet. To get their goods to Boston, they built a railroad that joined with the line out of New Bedford into Braintree and then went on to Boston. By 1852, Fall River mills began to use steam: the schooners we see on the river are probably bringing coal as well as lumber to the mills. The little sailboats may be bringing produce to the markets from the farms on the Somerset side. In 1892, Fall River was the scene of a celebrated murder involving the Borden family. Lizzie Borden was charged, and then acquitted, of the ax murder of her father and stepmother. Impressions of the Smith lithograph, printed by the firm of Sarony and Major in New York, are owned by the Fall River Historical Society, the Boston Athenaeum, the American Antiquarian Society, the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, and the New York Historical Society. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: EMPIRE STATE VESSEL TYPE: steamboat SERVICE DATES: 1848-1877 SHIP BUILDER: Samuel Sneeden BUILDER LOCATION: New York SHIP OWNERS: Bay State Steamboat Company VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 317' (length) x 40' (breadth x 13'6"(depth of hold), 1,691 tonnage; vertical beam engine having cylinder 76", and stroke 144". VESSEL HISTORY: The Bay State Steamboat Co. incorporated in 1847 was in 1863 changed to "Boston, Newport & New York Steamboat Co.", the forerunner of the Fall River Line. The EMPIRE STATE was the second steam of the Fall River Line. Before launching , the EMPIRE STATE was tentatively named the PLYMOUTH ROCK, but the name was changed before launching. The keel of the EMPIRE STATE was laid on June 29, 1847 and the hull was launched March 18, 1848. A few months later she was completed andput into serivce on the Fall River Line. Soon afterwards, however, on January 13, 1849, she was burned at the dock in Fall River, at a loss of nearly $200,000. The hull was raised and repaired, towed to New York, and there the superstructure was rebuilt. On July 26, 1856, when she was near Point Judith, eastbound, her starboard steam chimney gave way, resulting in injury of serveral passengers through escaping the steam. In 1857 she sank, when near Hell Gate, and in the next year she struck a rock, about 30 miles from New York, and as a result sank again. In both cases the damage was not extensive and she was soon repaired. This vessel was chiefly used as a spare boat after the NEWPORT & OLD COLONY were built for the Line in 1865. In 1871 she was sold, and was rebuilt as an excursion steamer. She was at Bristol, Rhode Island, being reconditioned for summer service when she was accidentally destroyed by fire on May 14, 1877.
MADISON - WISCONSIN - UNITED STATES - Publisher; MILWAUKEE - WISCONSIN - UNITED STATES - Printer; NANTUCKET - MASSACHUSETTS - UNITED STATES - Related Place
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Colored lithograph titled "Bird's Eye View of the Town of Nantucket in the State of Massachusetts Looking South West." Published by J. J. Stoner in 1881. There are six inset images showing the 1) Ocean House, 2) Sherburne House, 3) Springfield House and its annex, 4) Ocean View House, Sconset Beach, 5) Siasconset, 6) Sankaty Head Lighthouse. There are thirty-six numbered references and five lettered references in two columns in the lower margin. A total of 36 buildings are noted in a key below the image, among these are a series of eight "Houses" (the town's early hotels) with their proprietors listed. Four of these houses (Ocean House, Sherburne House, Springfield House, and Ocean View House, Sconset Beach) are illustrated in inset views at the bottom of the sheet. Miacomet Pond, Hummock Pond, the Prospect Hill, Friends', and North Cemeteries are also identified. In the upper right corner is an inset view of Siasconset and the Sankaty Head Light House. Print appears to be trimmed as the decorative elements in the top corners are cut off. NOTES: By 1881 tourism was Nantucket's primary industry. This view shows the swimming pier in the harbor, many small pleasure craft, a large, crowded swimming beach in the lower right corner, and a baseball game being played. NOTES: J.J. Stoner was one of the most prolific publishers of bird's-eye views in 19th-century America. He often worked with Milwaukee-based printers Beck & Pauli, who lithographed this view. This is among the rarest and most sought-after of the Stoner views. In "Views and Viewmakers" Reps locates examples at the Connecticut Historical Society, Library of Congress, and Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, VA. OCLC further locates examples at the Massachusetts State Library, Penn State, and the Universities of Connecticut and Illinois. Additional examples are known at the Nantucket Historical Society.
NO. 3 WESLEY PLACE, WILLIAMSBURG - LONG ISLAND - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES - Publisher; COLLECT POND - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES - Related Place
NOTES: A broadside with a map of Collect Pond in New York City and illustrations and text pertaining to early steamboat tests by John Fitch, predating Robert Fulton's work in this field. The subtitle of the print explains: "On which pond the first boat propelled by steam with paddle wheels or screw propellers was constructed by John Fitch (1734-1798), six years before Robert Fulton made trial of his boat upon the River Seine, in France, and ten years prior to his putting into operation his boat Clermont in New York; with a representation of the boat and its machinery, on the Collect pond." There are three illustrations of the boat: The Model Boat, the boat as seen on the Delaware River in 1787 documented at a speed of 7 miles per hour, and an illustration labeled with numbers and letters corresponding to descriptions of various machinery and people on board. The following are identified: John Fitch, Robert Fulton, R. R. Livingston, Esq, Lad Hutchings, the boiler, maine [sic.] pipe, valve box, smoke pipe, and other parts. A dedication appears in the bottom portion of the print: "The world is indebted for the original idea and to the mechanical genius of John Fitch, of East Windsor, Conn. And to the perseverance and indefatigable attention to the use of Steam of Robert Fulton Esq. Pa. The wealth & exalted character of Robert R. Livingston Esq. Chancellor of the State of New York." Text in the right margin provides an account of the story regarding John Fitch's steam boat, relevant history, and a description of the boat. To the left is a biography for Fitch, in addition to signed testimonials by acquaintances attesting to their friendship and to having witnessed his boat sailing. An identical example of the map, in the collection of the New York Public Library, Rose Fund donation, is described in the context of the history of Collect Pond, as follows: Located just north of the present City Hall, the natural spring-fed Collect Pond was the main source of fresh water for New York City until the Croton Aqueduct system was opened. The African American burial ground was adjacent to Collect Pond, along with the city armory and a tannery. Gunpowder, animal slaughter, and burial sites must not have made for a pleasant scene. A canal was built to drain the now fetid pond, and that canal later was paved over to form Canal Street. On early maps of the city, such as the Montresor map of 1767, one can see the low marshy ground, which demanded drainage. John Fitch is said to have tested his steam engine in Collect Pond in 1793, and there are numerous commemorative maps attesting to his experiments, which predated the work of Robert Fulton. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: References: "Collect Pond, Manhattan." New York Public Library: American Shores, Maps of the Mid Atlantic Region to 1850. 2002, http://www.nypl.org/research/midatlantic/geo_collect.html. Peters, Harry T., AMERICA ON STONE / THE OTHER PRINTMAKERS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, p. 282
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