Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, Boston, and Canada Travel Photograph Album, ca. 1893-1905

Summary

Creator:

Anonymous

Abstract:

The Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, Boston, and Canada travel photograph album contains approximately 240 photographs of a trip to several locations around the eastern United States and Canada.

Extent:

approximately 240 photographs in 1 album

Language:

English

Authors:

Collection processed and finding aid created by Jakob Dopp, June 2024

Background

Scope and Content:

The Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, Boston, and Canada travel photograph album contains approximately 240 photographs documenting a trip to several locations around the eastern United States and Canada.

The album (25.5 x 31.75 cm) is a "Ward's Album for Unmounted Photographs" with green cloth covers. Images of interest include views of a beachside town with palm trees in what appears to be New Jersey; the Elephantine Colossus at Coney Island, New York; a railroad likely near the Delaware Water Gap; John Bartram's House and various other buildings in Philadelphia; the railroad depot at Landsdowne, Pennsylvania; the Longfellow House and Trinity Church in Boston; as well as the interior of what appears to be a summer cabin. Also present are images of Baltimore, Maryland, including views of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; and images from Canadian locations including the Ontario Provincial Legislation Building in Toronto as well as the Château de Ramezay and Market Day at Place Jacques-Cartier in Montreal.

Acquisition Information:

Purchased from Steve Resnick, November 1993. F-138 .

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Subjects

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Subjects:

Photographs shelf.
Cabins--1890-1910.
Children--United States--1890-1910.
Churches--United States--1890-1910.
Interiors--United States--1890-1910.
Railroads--United States--1890-1910.
Valleys--United States--1890-1910.
Travel--1890-1910.

Formats:

Gelatin silver prints.
Group portraits.
Landscape photographs.
Portrait photographs.
Photograph albums.
Snapshots.

Names:

Château de Ramezay.

Places:

Baltimore (Md.)
Boston (Mass.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
Montréal (Québec)
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Toronto (Ont.)