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 women, are fishing and enjoying the view. To the far left of an unoccupied dock, dock workers, including an african american man, move large bundles. At the turn of the nineteenth century, ferries were the main source of transportation to southern new jersey. The state provided much of the fresh produce sold in philadelphia markets. P-2276-7. Engraving by william russell birch. Link to record on impac, the library company’s digital collections catalog: http://lcpdams. Librarycompany. Org:8881/r/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=127695&silo_library=gen01.
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