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View of the Arch Street ferry terminal on the Delaware River. Depicts Philadelphia's busy waterfront and includes sailing ships, warehouses, bartering merchants, and dock workers weighing, as well as loading, barrels and bundles of produce onto carts. Others, including white women, are fishing and looking out onto the river. To the far left of an unoccupied dock, dock workers, including an African American man, move large bundles. At the turn of the 19th century ferries were the main source of transportation to Southern New Jersey. New Jersey provided much of the fresh produce sold at Philadelphia markets.; Drawn, engraved & published by W. Birch Springland near Bristol Pennsylvania 1800.; Inscribed: 1.; Title from item.

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The Library Company of Philadelphia

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PA Digital

Keywords

  1. African American Men
  2. African American Stevedores
  3. African Americans
  4. Engravings
  5. Ferries
  6. Hand Colored
  7. Marine Terminals
  8. Pennsylvania
  9. Philadelphia
  10. Shipping
  11. Stevedores
  12. Waterfronts
  13. Women

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