273 Steamer Ella, at Block Island
date: label: date made
content: mid-late 1800s
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: black and white stereograph mounted on orange cardstock; printed on verso "Sea-Side Views / from / Webster's Photographic Studio, / Cor. Main and Shetucket Streets, / Norwich, Conn. / Block Island Series / 273 Steamer Ella, at Block Island; 25 cents each; six for $1.35; twelve for $2.50. Sent by mail post paid. / Also views of Norwich and vicinity, Yantic, Fitchville, Bozrahville, Taftville, Occum, Eagleville, Poquetannock, &c. Additions constantly made." additional views listed; sandy ground with patchy grass in foreground, beach in midground; wmall wharf in midground at right; sidewheel steamboat tied to the far side of the wharf; several single sail, single mast sailboats (catboat?) tied to the wharf or anchored near the wharf; men standing on wharf next to steamer
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Block Island
label: associated place
content: United States: Connecticut, Norwich
topic: label: Subject
content: Steamships
label: Subject
content: Maritime
label: Subject
content: Sailing Ships
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3033.0728
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3033
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3033.0728
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stereograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 7 in; 10.16 cm x 17.78 cm