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Philadelphia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb

1 pp 1890

Blue tone cyanotype image of the Philadelphia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. Foreground of the image is a cobblestone street with sidewalk behind it and a wrought-iron fence on the right side of image. In the left background is a large Greek Revival building with six columns and stairs leading up to the portico. Between the columns on the right is a street lamp. Visible on the portico are a male and female on either side of the third column from the right.

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Philadelphia street scene

1 pp 1890

Blue tone cyanotype image of a street in Philadelphia, PA. In the center of the image is a Caucasian male Just stepping onto the curb after crossing a street. He wears a bowler hat, lighter-colored unbuttoned jacket with buttoned vest under, darker trousers, white shirt and collar and a bow tie. Behind him crossing the street is another male subject dressed in dark jacket and trousers with white shirt and dark bow tie. To the left of the first subject is another male subject crossing on the other side of the street. He is dressed in darker clothing and carries a walking stick in proper left hand. In the background is a four-story second empire building with white awning over the front windows. There is a double curved stairway on either side of the front windows. Other tall buildings are in the left background.

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Picnic at Fort Phoenix

1 pp 1893

Blue tone cyanotype image of a picnic. Image shows white cloth spread on ground with a wicker basket and large pitcher in left foreground of cloth. Subjects sitting around cloth all appear to be women except for male figure carrying a basket to right of cloth. Trees in background.

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Picnic party, Nonquitt

1 pp 1850

Shows a picnic party in Nonquitt, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts on the grass in front of the sea with houses in the background. Women hold their parasols. Men in the background are playing baseball.

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Pier 3 in New Bedford

1 pp 1893

Blue tone cyanotype image of Pier 3 in New Bedford. Image shows casks of whale oil covered with seaweed in the foreground and two men are on the pier covering the casks with seaweed. In the left background is a small shed and a whaleship is in the center background.

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Pleasant and North Streets, New Bedford

1 pp 1905

Scene shows a streetscape with houses, telephone poles, people out and about and horses and carriages moving down the road; woman pedestrian at right. Scene shows Pleasant Street on North Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts in the year 1905.

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Potter Brightman

1 pp 1865

Black and white seated studio portrait of Potter Brightman. Subject is a seated Caucasian male facing right with head turned front. Subject has light-colored hair combed over from left to right and with a curl at nape of neck and curls at temples. Subject has a light-colored, greying full beard extending up to temple curls. Subject wears a dark, unbuttoned jacket with taped edges, shiny buttoned dark vest under with locations of buttons visible, striped dark trousers, white shirt and collar and striped/plaid bow tie. Subject sits with his left hand resting on his left thigh and his right forearm and hand resting on a patterned tablecloth [?].

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Public building in Philadelphia, PA

1 pp 1890

Blue tone cyanotype image of a large public building [City Hall?] in Philadelphia, PA. Building in center background of image is of light-colored stone and has four stories, many columns, windows and cap pediments on the windows. There is a tower rising above the entrance. On either side of the cobblestoned street are other tall, stone buildings. The stone building on the right side of the street has a corner tower on which is a series of short, horizontal lines. On the left side of the street is a horse-drawn trolley heading toward the building. Other horse-drawn carriages are visible in the center of the street and along the left and right sides of the street.

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Purchase Street

1 pp 1857

A copy print of an image taken between 1857-1861. Image is of one side of Purchase Street showing storefronts, people in front of the stores and horses and carriages. The store on the extreme left has a "Trunk Store" sign on it and a partial image of a carriage in front. The next visible sign is "Millinery" and the third visible sign is "S. Childs, Watches & Jewelry Repaired". The building with the "Millinery" sign shows the second location of the New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank at 37 Purchase Street, which was when the print made. The third location of the bank at 41 Purchase Street is indicated by the arrow.

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Purchase Street, New Bedford

1 pp 1880

Scene shows Purchase Street at Mechanics Lane, New Bedford, Massachusetts. New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank at left, fire station to its right, stone North Congregational Church, Federal style brick house, wood First Baptist Church.

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Quaker woman with folded arms

1 pp 1850

Black and white daguerreotype portrait of a woman. Subject is a Caucasian female with body and head facing full front. Subject has dark-colored hair parted in the middle and covered by a white bonnet with full sides and tied under her chin with a white ribbon/bow. Subject wears a dark-colored dress with a wider, white, sheer collar with a few rows/bands of simple decorative stitching at collar's edge. Light-colored neckwear/scarf with short, dark fringe hangs slightly down the front of the dress. Similar dark fringe is at the midpoint of the upper arm of the long sleeves. Long sleeves end in tightly-fitted cuffs. Dress fabric is shiny. Subject has her left arm folded over her right.

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Raiding party of French Infantry

1 pp 1917

This black-and-white photograph is part of a group of four.

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