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View of an active railway pier at Port Richmond on the Delaware River showing several dock workers, including African Americans, unloading pipe sections from railway cars onto a docked ship. Port Richmond was owned by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company starting in the mid-1850s.; Title from manuscript note on verso.; Forms part of: The Photo-Illustrators Collection.

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The Library Company of Philadelphia

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PA Digital

Keywords

  1. African American Stevedores
  2. African Americans
  3. Cargo Ships
  4. Gelatin Silver Prints
  5. Pennsylvania
  6. Philadelphia
  7. Piers & Wharves
  8. Stevedores
  9. United States

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